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The Catholic Studies Reader

James T. Fisher and Margaret M. McGuinness

Abstract

This is a rare book in an emerging field that has neither a documented history nor a consensus as to what should be a normative methodology. Dividing this volume into five interrelated themes central to the practice and theory of Catholic Studies —Sources and Contexts, Traditions and Methods, Pedagogy and Practice, Ethnicity, Race, and Catholic Studies, and The Catholic Imagination—the editors provide readers with the opportunity to understand the great diversity within this area of study. Readers will find essays on the Catholic intellectual tradition and Catholic social teaching, as well as ... More

Keywords: Catholic Studies, Catholic imagination, Catholic intellectual tradition, Catholic social teaching, pedagogy, traditions, ethnicity, race

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780823234103
Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2011 DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823234103.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

James T. Fisher, editor
Department of Theology, Fordham University

Margaret M. McGuinness, editor
Department of Religion, LaSalle University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Catholic Practice in North America

Acknowledgments

The Catholic Studies Reader

Introduction

JAMES T. FISHER AND MARGARET M. MCGUINNESS

Part I: Sources and Contexts

1 “The Story Is What Saves Us”

DEBRA CAMPBELL

2 The Catholic Intellectual Tradition

MARY ELLEN O'DONNELL

3 Passing on the Faith

SANDRA YOCUM

4. The (Catholic) Politics of Catholic Studies

DAVID O'BRIEN

Part II: Traditions and Methods

5 Catholic Studies and Religious Studies

ANN TAVES

6 A Definition of Catholic

JEANNINE HILL FLETCHER

7 Method and Conversion in Catholic Studies

RICHARD M. LIDDY

Part III: Pedagogy and Practice

8 Catholic Studies in the Spirit of “Do Whatever He Tells You”

UNA M. CADEGAN

9 Afflicting the Comfortable

MARGARET M. MCGUINNESS

10 Teaching About Women, Gender, and American Catholicism

KATHLEEN SPROWS CUMMINGS

11 Visual Literacy and Catholic Studies

CATHERINE R. OSBORNE

Part IV: Ethnicity, Race, and Catholic Studies

12 We Have Been Believers

DIANA L. HAYES AND CECILIA A. MOORE

13 Asian American Catholic Experience and Catholic Studies

LINH HOANG, O.F.M.

14 Working Toward an Inclusive Narrative

KRISTY NABHAN-WARREN

Part V: The Catholic Imagination

15 Seeing Catholicly

ANGELA ALAIMO O'DONNELL

16 Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth

THOMAS J. FERRARO

17 Catholic Studies and the Sacramental Imaginary

MAUREEN H. O'CONNELL

End Matter

Contributors

Index