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Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Missions—United States [Browse]
• Catholic Church—United States—History [Browse]
• French—United States [Browse]
• Missions—United States—History [Browse]
• Missionaries—United States—Biography [Browse]
• United States—Church history [Browse]

Series

• Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Religion in America Series

Summary note

Michael Pasquier examines the 'lived' religion of French missionaries in their daily encounters with anti-Catholic Protestants and anti-clerical Catholics on the American frontier.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction : les confrères et les pères in American Catholic history
• Missionary formation and French Catholicism
• Missionary experience and frontier Catholicism
• Missionary revival and transnational Catholicism
• Missionary politics and ultramontane Catholicism
• Slavery, Civil War, and southern Catholicism
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

0-19-970712-X

OCLC

935285460

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