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- 14F HIUS 2401-001 (CGAS)
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Syllabus for American Catholic History
HIUS/RELC 2401: History of American Catholicism
Fall 2014
Class website on Collab: 14F HIUS 2401-001 (CGAS) Because this course is cross-listed between History and Religious Studies, Collab gives preference to the history designation because it only knows alphabetical order.
G. P. Fogarty, S.J.
Office: Gibson Hall 431
Office Hours: Tues. 1:15-4:00
Thurs. 1:00-2:30
Other times by appointment
Phone numbers: office: 924-6707; home: 979-8592; cell: 242-8592
E-mail: gpf@virginia.edu
Course Requirements:
(1) Midterm Examination
(2) Final Examination—
(3) An analysis of one of the documents chosen from the two collections of documents of American Catholic History on reserve in Clemens. You should consult me about the document you choose. The assignment is due on Nov. 20. I will explain more about this assignment in class.
Required Reading:
In accordance with the university’s efforts to cut down costs, the text books are available either at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble, at considerable savings.
James Hennesey, American Catholics
Gerald P. Fogarty, The Vatican and the American Hierarchy--this will be available on the class home page as a PDF file. The prices I found with Amazon and Barnes and Noble are prohibitive.
Other readings will be on the class home page.
Tentative Schedule of Topics:
An outline for each topic will be posted on the class webpage, accessed from my personal homepage.
Aug. 26 INTRODUCTION
Aug. 28-Sept. 2: Catholicism in New Spain and New France
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 9-35
Sept. 4-9: Catholicism in Colonial Maryland
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 36-54
Fogarty, "Property and Religious Liberty in Colonial Maryland Catholic Thought," Catholic Historical Review, 72 (1986), 573-600 (home page)
Sept. 11-16: John Carroll and the Early Republic
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 55-88
Letters of Carroll and statement of de Tocqueville(home page)
Sept. 18-23: John England and Episcopal Collegiality
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 89-115
Sept. 25-30: Women's Religious Orders; Immigration and Nativism
Showing of "the Irish In America", Sept. 30
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 116-171
Thompson, "Discovering Foremothers" (home page)
Davis "Black Catholics" (home page)
Oct. 2: Mid-term—the date of this might be changed. This will be sent by e-mail to be returned to me by e-mail.
Oct. 7-9: The Laity in the Church: Lay Initiative and Trusteeism
Readings: Patrick Carey, "The Laity's Understanding of the Trustee System" (home page)
Address of Norfolk Trustee (home page)
Oct. 14: Reading Day
Oct. 16-21: War of the Prelates: 19th Century Liberalism, Ethnic Tension, and the Social Question, Part I
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 181-203.
Fogarty, The Vatican and the American Hierarchy, pp. 27-142.
Oct. 23-28: Americanism and Modernism: The Demise of Catholic Intellectual Life
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 204-220
Fogarty, Vatican, pp. 143-194
Oct. 30-Nov. 4: "The New Immigration" and Popular Piety
Reading: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 172-181.
Nov. 6-11: Romanization of the Hierarchy/Americanization of the People
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 221-253
Fogarty, Vatican, pp. 195-258
Nickels, "Thomas Wyatt Turner" (home page)
Nov. 13-18: From World War II to Kennedy
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 254-306
Fogarty, Vatican, pp. 259-345
Kennedy, Speech to Houston Ministers (home page)
Nov. 20-25: Vatican II and Religious Liberty
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 307-313
Fogarty, Vatican, pp. 346-401
Nov. 26-30: Thanksgiving break
Dec. 2-4: Suburban Catholicism and Urban dwellers
Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 313-332
Moses Sandoval, "Hispanic Immigrants" (home page)
Deck, "Spirituality of United States Hispanics" (xerox)
Cuomo, Notre Dame Speech (home page)
Bernardin, "Seamless Garment" (home page)
Dec. 8: FINAL EXAM—to be taken at the scheduled time, but delivered to me by e-mail, as was the mid-term.
Reference works in Alderman (Reference Room) and/or Clemons:
New Catholic Encyclopedia--this is not The Catholic Encyclopedia on the web, published between 1908 and 1914.
John Tracy Ellis (ed.), Documents of American Catholic History (Clemons reserve)
Steven M. Avella and Elizabeth McKeown (eds.), Public Voices: Catholics in the American Context (Clemons reserve)
John Tracy Ellis and Robert Trisco (eds.), Guide to American Catholic History
Michael Glazier and Thomas Shelley (eds.), Encyclopedia of American Catholic History