Author: Caroline B Brettell
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809334178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Winner, ISHS Certificate of Excellence, 2016 In the late 1850s and early 1860s, the attention of the Catholic and Protestant religious communities around the world focused on a few small settlements of French Canadian immigrants in northeastern Illinois. Soon after arriving in their new home, a large number of these immigrants, led by Father Charles Chiniquy, the charismatic Catholic priest who had brought them there, converted to Protestantism. In this anthropological history, Caroline B. Brettell explores how Father Chiniquy took on both the sacred and the secular authority of the Catholic Church to engineer the religious schism and how the legacy of this rift affected the lives of the immigrants and their descendants for generations. This intriguing study of a nineteenth-century migration of French Canadians to the American Midwest offers an innovative perspective on the immigrant experience in America. Brettell chronicles how Chiniquy came to lead approximately one thousand French Canadian families to St. Anne, Illinois, in the early 1850s and how his conflict with the Catholic hierarchy over the ownership and administration of church property, delivery of the mass in French instead of Latin, and access to the Bible by laymen led to his excommunication. Drawing on the concept of social drama—a situation of intensely lived conflict that emerges within social groups—Brettell explains the religious schism in terms of larger ethnic and religious disagreements that were happening elsewhere in the United States and in Canada. Brettell also explores legal disputes, analyzes the reemergence of Catholicism in St. Anne in the first decade of the twentieth century, addresses the legacy of Chiniquy in both the United States and Quebec, and closely examines the French Canadian immigrant communities, focusing on the differences between the people who converted to Protestantism and those who remained Catholic. Occurring when nativism was pervasive and the anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party was at its height, Chiniquy’s religious schism offers an opportunity to examine a range of important historical and anthropological issues, including immigration, ethnicity, and religion; changes in household and family structure; the ways social identities are constructed and reconstructed through time; and the significance of charismatic leadership in processes of social and religious change. Through its multidisciplinary approach, Brettell’s enlightening study provides a pioneering assessment of larger national tensions and social processes, some of which are still evident in modern immigration to the United States.
Author: Charles Chiniquy
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Category : Catholic women
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Author: Charles Chiniquy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734043921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Reproduction of the original: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Chiniquy
Author: Charles CHINIQUY
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 793
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This invaluable work presents a fresh perspective of the world of Roman Catholicism. Charles Chiniquy wrote about his experiences growing up in the Catholic Church and transforming into the priesthood. He shared how God led him to freedom from religion, and after this liberation, he entered into a close relationship with the Lord.
Author: Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
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ISBN: 9780659114648
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Author: Caroline Brettell
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 080933416X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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4. From First to Second Generation: Demography, Economy, and Society of the French Canadian Immigrants, 1860-1900 -- 5. Disputes and Social Boundaries -- 6. The Miracles of St. Anne: The Historical Origins and Meaning of a Religious Pilgrimage
Author: Paul Serup
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ISBN: 9780981168500
Category : Conspiracies
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Book & CD. Born in Quebec, Charles Chiniquy gained great fame as a crusading priest for temperance who also established French-Canadian communities in Illinois. It was there that the celebrated priest first made Abraham Lincoln's acquaintance when the popular Springfield lawyer defended him in the most high profile libel case in Lincoln's career. Not long after this, because of the great shortcomings he saw in its teachings and practice, Chiniquy left the Catholic Church and became a Protestant. In his extremely popular autobiography, "Fifty Years in The Church of Rome", Chiniquy reported that after the murder of his close friend, the President, he travelled to Washington to conduct his own inquiry. He met with high ranking government officials who told him that they had no doubt that the Jesuits were behind Lincoln's slaying but they wanted to keep this from the public to avoid giving new life to the broken rebellion and to avert possible bloodshed between Catholics and Protestants. For their role in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and other high government officials, eight people were put on trial before a military commission. Evidently, one of those officials who believed that the assassination was a Catholic plot was a dominant member of Lincoln's cabinet, the man who was, in reality, in charge of the United States government in the hours and weeks after the murder and who also headed the official investigation into the assassination, Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. This is part of the evidence that clearly points to Roman Catholic complicity in the murder of the President as well as general hostility to America and its democratic institution. Also included: The New York City Draft Riots. Ten days after the battle of Gettysburg, with the army essentially gone from the city, huge blood-thirsty mobs, lynching people, torching buildings, looting and destroying property, opposed only by a vastly outnumbered police force, threatened not only the existence of New York but the whole nation as well. These ferocious mobs that, among other things, fought and killed police and soldiers, beat black people to death and burned buildings with the inhabitants still in them, were essentially all Roman Catholic. Mary Surratt: A devout Roman Catholic, she was the first woman ever executed by the American government for her part in the assassination plot headquartered in her boarding-house. A majority of the conspirators were Catholic, including, the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a time when Romanists made up a small fraction of the U.S. population. St Joseph: The assassination was spoken in this solidly Catholic town in Minnesota hours before it occurred . . . and much more. A CD of over 3,300 pages of supporting documentation, including the court records of those put on trial for conspiring to assassinate Lincoln and other officials is also part of this work.
Author: Nancy Marie De Flon
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809144129
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Answers questions about The Da Vinci Code and the novel's relation to Catholicism, pointing out misrepresentations of church history and doctrine and revealing many positive aspects of the Catholic tradition.
