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" Papist patriots : "
by Maura Jane Farrelly.
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BL
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874201
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Farrelly, Maura Jane.
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Papist patriots : : the making of an American Catholic identity /\ by Maura Jane Farrelly.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, ©2012.
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xiv, 305 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0199757712
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: 9780199757718
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The English origins of American Catholicism -- Prescience, pluralism, and profit -- Inconsistencies and consequences -- Catholic commitment in an inhospitable climate -- The inconsistency of intolerance --Papists become patriots.
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"'The persons in America who were the most opposed to Great Britain had also, in general, distinguished themselves by being particularly hostile to Catholics.' So wrote the minister, teacher, and sometime-historian Jonathan Boucher from his home in Surrey, Engalnd, in 1797. He blamed 'old prejudices against papists' for the Revolution's popularity--especially in Maryland, where most of the non-Canadian Catholics in British North America lived. Many historians since Boucher have noted the role that anti-Catholicism played in stirring up animosity against the king and Parliament. Yet, in spite of the rhetoric, Maryland's Catholics supported the independence movement more enthusiastically than their Protestant neighbors. Not only did Maryland's Catholics embrace the idea of independence, they also embraced the individualistic, rights-oriented ideology the defined the Revolution, even though theirs was a communally oriented denomination that stressed the importance of hierarchy, order, and obligation. Catholic leaders in Europe made it clear that the war was a 'sedition' worthy of damnation, even as they acknowledged that England had been no friend to the Catholic Church. So why, then, did 'papists' become 'patriots?'"--Jacket, p. [2].
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Catholic Church-- Maryland-- History-- 18th century.
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Catholic Church-- United States-- History-- 18th century.
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Catholic Church.
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Katholische Kirche
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11.54 Roman Catholicism.
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Amerikanische Revolution
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Nationenbildung
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Religiöse Identität
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Katholische Kirche.
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Maryland, Church history, 18th century.
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United States, Church history, 18th century.
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United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, Religious aspects, Catholic Church.
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Maryland
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Maryland.
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Maryland.
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United States.
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USA, Revolution.
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Dewey Classification
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282/.75209033
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| LC Classification
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BX1415.M3F37 2012
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11.54bcl
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