Ballots and Bibles : Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence

Ballots and Bibles : Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence

From Cornell University Press: "Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century....In a departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the United States, 'Ballots and Bibles' views religion as a critical tool for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full membership in the nation."

Sterne, Evelyn Savidge

Cornell University Press

2003

en

Book

123124412, 52458642

1880-1930; Rhode Island

9780801441172

1st

294

Ithaca, New York

Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America

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