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Author:

Pasquier, Michael

Title:

Fathers on the frontier : French missionaries and the Roman Catholic priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 / Michael Pasquier.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

ix, 295 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Catholic Church--Missions--United States.
French--United States
Missions--United States--History.
United States--Church history
Catholic Church--United States--History
Missionaries--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: les confr©·res et les p©·res 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.

Series:

Religion in America series

ISBN:

0195372336 (alk. paper)
9780195372335 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317118138

LCCN:

2009010332

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)