New Insights into Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Title | New Insights into Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Rowan |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2021-09-28 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1527575403 |
This volume deepens thinking and research about literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It develops the understanding that a number of acclaimed literary texts have reflected, in imaginative and memorable ways, a distinctive Catholic sensibility, identity and philosophy of life, and, in so doing, have shed light on profound spiritual experiences in a variety of fictional settings.
New Insights Into Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Title | New Insights Into Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Rowan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-04-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781527598782 |
This volume deepens thinking and research about literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It develops the understanding that a number of acclaimed literary texts have reflected, in imaginative and memorable ways, a distinctive Catholic sensibility, identity and philosophy of life, and, in so doing, have shed light on profound spiritual experiences in a variety of fictional settings.
Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Title | Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | David Torevell |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2021-03-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527567052 |
This volume investigates how literary texts have reflected, in ground-breaking ways, distinctive features of a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by its ability to capture the imagination, is able to evoke facets of human experience related specifically to a Catholic understanding of life.
Catholic Converts
Title | Catholic Converts PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Allitt |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501720538 |
From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts—such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.
Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Title | Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Susan M. Griffin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2004-07-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521833936 |
Griffin analyses anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and America.
Religious Institutes and Catholic Culture in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe
Title | Religious Institutes and Catholic Culture in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Urs Altermatt |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2014-03-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9462700001 |
A broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in social and cultural practices This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious institutes, men and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities of communication in different European countries (England, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Low Countries, the Nordic Countries, Switzerland). The articles focus on social and cultural history by comparing both discourses and cultural and social practices, as well as examining international networks and cultural transference. How did religious institutes function as cultural elites in the production and mediation of knowledge, ideologies, cultural codes, and practices? What kind of discursive and operational strategies did they use to help construct and propagate social Catholicism, ultramontanism, and confessionalism, and to establish and promote the Catholic communication system? What were the central mechanisms in the production of knowledge and how were they incorporated within identity politics? The volume also takes a broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in the production and propagation of religious, cultural, and social practices, and in the socialisation of the Catholic population. The focus is on cultural practices, on the transmission and transformation of attitudes, and on the rites and customs in everyday religious and social practices.
Religious Liberties
Title | Religious Liberties PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Fenton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2011-04-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199838399 |
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Catholicism was often presented in the U.S. not only as a threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy. Focusing on literary and cultural representations of Catholics as a political force, Elizabeth Fenton argues that the U.S. perception of religious freedom grew partly, and paradoxically, out of a sometimes virulent but often genteel anti-Catholicism. Depictions of Catholicism's imagined intolerance and cruelty allowed writers time and again to depict their nation as tolerant and free. As Religious Liberties shows, anti-Catholic sentiment particularly shaped U.S. conceptions of pluralism and its relationship to issues as diverse as religious privacy, territorial expansion, female citizenship, political representation, chattel slavery, and governmental partisanship. Drawing on a wide range of materials--from the Federalist Papers to antebellum biographies of Toussaint Louverture; from nativist treatises to Margaret Fuller's journalism; from convent exposés to novels by Catharine Sedgwick, Augusta J. Evans, Nathanial Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain--Fenton's study excavates the influence of anti-Catholic sentiment on both the liberal tradition and early U.S. culture more generally. In concert, these texts suggest how the prejudice against Catholicism facilitated an alignment of U.S. nationalism with Protestantism, thus ensuring the mutual dependence, rather than the putative "separation" of church and state.