Shelley Upper West Side Catholics

Liberal Catholicism in a Conservative Archdiocese
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8543-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

The history of Ascension parish is a microcosm of the history of the Catholic Church in New York City because it has been characterized by the two most powerful dynamics that have shaped the nature of New York Catholicism: immigration and neighborhood change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shelley, Thomas J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Father Daniel S. Kearney ix

List of Abbreviations xi

1. A Home of Their Own 1

2. The Founding Fathers 6

3. The Upper West Side 15

4. The Ascension Parish Plant 27

5. The Confident Years at Ascension 37

6. A Parish in Transition 46

7. Quo Vadis ? 56

8. A Neighborhood in Peril 74

9. Recovery and Renaissance 83

10. Old and New Horizons 97

Appendixes

A. Pastors of the Church of the Ascension 117

B. Upper West Side Catholic Churches in 1865 119

C. Upper West Side Catholic Churches in 1910 121

Acknowledgments 123

Notes 125

Bibliography 137

Index 143

Über Autor(innen)

Shelley Thomas J.:
Monsignor Thomas J. Shelley, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Emeritus Professor of Church History at Fordham University. His publications include The Bicentennial History of the Archdiocese of New York: 1808–2008 and Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York: 1841–2003 (Fordham).Monsignor Thomas J. Shelley, a priest of the archdiocese of New York, is Emeritus Professor of Church History at Fordham University. His publications include Bicentennial History of the Archdiocese of New York and Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York: 1841–2003 (Fordham).