The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962

The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962

Examination of immigrant Catholic influences on the traditions of Catholicism in the United States. A collection of largely biographical segments dedicated to certain influential, thought-provoking, and paradigm-shifting American Catholics from the middle of the twentieth century. The influence of these thinkers on a country not without skeptics or critics of Roman Catholicism. From UNC Press: "James Fisher argues that Catholic culture was transformed when products of the 'immigrant church,' largely inspired by converts like Dorothy Day, launched a variety of spiritual, communitarian, and literary experiments. He also explores the life and works of Thomas A. Dooley and Jack Kerouac to show that their experiences signaled a new Catholic appreciation of the American tradition of creative freedom." Contains the following chapters:
"The Conversion of Dorothy Day"
"Fools for Christ" : Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement, 1933-1949
The Catholic workers and Catholic culture, 1933-1949
The limits of personalism : "Integrity" and the Marycrest Community, 1946-1956
Thomas A. Dooley and the romance of Catholic anticommunism
A Catholic errand in the wilderness : Tom Dooley in Laos and America, 1956-1961
Jack Kerouac and Thomas Merton, the last Catholic romantics.

Fisher, James Terence

The University of North Carolina Press

1989

en

Book

1933-1962; United States

9780807849491

324

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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