The Catholic Studies Reader

by James T. Fisher (Editor), Margaret M. McGuinness (Editor)

Overview

The Catholic Studies Reader 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 informative essays on the Catholic intellectual tradition and Catholic social teaching, as well as reflections on the arts and literature. This provocative and enriching collection is valuable not only for scholars but also for lay and religious Catholics working in Catholic education in universities, high schools, and parish schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823234110
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	04/13/2011
Series:	Catholic Practice in North America
Edition description:	2
Pages:	468
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

James T. Fisher is Professor of Theology and American Studies at Fordham University. His most recent books are Communion of Immigrants: A History of Catholics in America and On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York.

Margaret M. McGuinness is Professor of Religion at La Salle University, Philadelphia, and co-editor of American Catholic Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Need for Catholic Studies
James T. Fisher and Margaret M. McGuinness

Part I: Sources and Contexts

''The Story Is What Saves Us'': American Catholic Memoirs
Debra Campbell

The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Classification and a Calling
Mary Ellen O'Donnell

Passing on the Faith: Training the Next Generation of American Practicing Catholics
Sandra Yocum

The (Catholic) Politics of Catholic Studies
David O'Brien

Part II: Traditions and Methods

Catholic Studies and Religious Studies: Reflections on the Concept of Tradition
Ann Taves

A Definition of Catholic: Toward a Cosmopolitan Vision
Jeannine Hill Fletcher

Method and Conversion in Catholic Studies
Richard M. Liddy

Part III: Pedagogy and Practice

Catholic Studies in the Spirit of ''Do Whatever He Tells You''
Una M. Cadegan

Afflicting the Comfortable: The Role of Catholic Social Teaching in Catholic Studies Programs
Margaret M. McGuinness

Teaching About Women, Gender, and American Catholicism
Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Visual Literacy and Catholic Studies
Catherine R. Osborne

Part IV: Ethnicity, Race, and Catholic Studies

We Have Been Believers: Black Catholic Studies
Diana L. Hayes and Cecilia A. Moore

Asian American Catholic Experience and Catholic Studies
Linh Hoang, O.F.M.

Working Toward an Inclusive Narrative: A Call for Interdisciplinarity and Ethnographic Reflexivity in Catholic Studies
Kristy Nabhan-Warren

Part V: The Catholic Imagination

Seeing Catholicly: Poetry and the Catholic Imagination
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth: Beyond the Puritan Pedagogy of The Scarlet Letter
Thomas J. Ferraro

Catholic Studies and the Sacramental Imaginary: New Directions in Catholic Humanism
Maureen H. O'Connell

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Editorial Reviews

A helpful and necessary step in establishing a set of scholarship tofurther the discussion which also displays the lack of consensus amongscholars and disciplines about what constitutes 'Catholic Studies.'-Paula M. Kane

"In addition to serving as a launch pad for a new series called Catholic Practice in North America, The Catholic Studies Reader 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." -American Catholic Studies Newsletter

From the Publisher

In addition to serving as a launch pad for a new series called Catholic Practice in North America, The Catholic Studies Reader 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.

American Catholic Studies Newsletter

A helpful and necessary step in establishing a set of scholarship to further the discussion which also displays the lack of consensus among scholars and disciplines about what constitutes ‘Catholic Studies.’”

University of Pittsburgh - Paula M. Kane

The Catholic Studies Reader promises to be of singular benefit to academics and programs that span the broad spectrum of ideology and mission, and will lend cohesion to a congeries of programs that are now united more in name than in purpose or structure. I never tell people to run out and buy a book. Run out and buy this book.

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education - Mark Massa S.J.