The Catholic Studies Reader

by Fisher, James T.; McGuinness, Margaret M.

• ISBN13: 9780823234110
• ISBN10: 0823234118
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-13
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

Summary

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, andparish schools.

Author Biography

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. She is the author of Neighbors and Missionaries: A History of the Sister of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, forthcoming from Fordham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: The Need for Catholic Studies	p. 1
Sources and Contexts
ôThe Story is What Saves Usö: American Catholic Memoirs	p. 19
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Classification and a Calling	p. 43
Passing on the Faith: Training the Next Generation of American Practicing Catholics	p. 68
The (Catholic) Politics of Catholic Studies	p. 92
Traditions and Methods
Catholic Studies and Religious Studies: Reflections on the Concept of Tradition	p. 113
A Definition of Catholic: Toward a Cosmopolitan Vision	p. 129
Method and Conversion in Catholic Studies	p. 148
Pedagogy and Practice
Catholic Studies in the Spirit of ôDo Whatever He Tells Youö	p. 171
Afflicting the Comfortable: The Role of Catholic Social Teaching in Catholic Studies Programs	p. 193
Teaching About Women, Gender, and American Catholicism	p. 211
Visual Literacy and Catholic Studies	p. 235
Ethnicity, Race, and Catholic Studies
We Have Been Believers: Black Catholic Studies	p. 259
Asian American Catholic Experience and Catholic Studies	p. 282
Working Toward an Inclusive Narrative: A Call for Interdisciplinarity and Ethnographic Reflexivity in Catholic Studies	p. 309
The Catholic Imagination
Seeing Catholicly: Poetry and the Catholic Imagination	p. 331
Cultural Studies Between Heaven and Earth: Beyond the Puritan Pedagogy of The Scarlet Letter	p. 352
Catholic Studies and the Sacramental Imaginary: New Directions in Catholic Humanism	p. 372
Notes	p. 395
List of Contributors	p. 435
Index	p. 439
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