Author: St. Ann's Church (Providence, R.I.)
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Category : Providence (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church, Providence, Rhode Island
Author: St. Ann's Church (Providence, R.I.)
Publisher:
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Category : Providence (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
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Category : Providence (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Catholic Church in Rhode Island
Author: Thomas Francis Cullen
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island
Author: John H. Greene
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Category : Catholic church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Catholic church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Ballots and Bibles
Author: Evelyn Savidge Sterne
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501717758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was transformed by the arrival of Italian, Irish, and French-Canadian workers. By 1905, more than half of its population was Catholic—Rhode Island was the first state in the nation to have a Catholic majority. Civic leaders, for whom Protestantism was an essential component of American identity, systematically sought to exclude the city's Catholic immigrants from participation in public life, most flagrantly by restricting voting rights. Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century.In a departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the United States, Ballots and Bibles views religion as a critical tool for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full membership in the nation. The Catholic Church must, Sterne concludes, be considered as powerful an engine for ethnic working-class activism from the 1880s until the 1930s as the labor union or the political machine.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501717758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was transformed by the arrival of Italian, Irish, and French-Canadian workers. By 1905, more than half of its population was Catholic—Rhode Island was the first state in the nation to have a Catholic majority. Civic leaders, for whom Protestantism was an essential component of American identity, systematically sought to exclude the city's Catholic immigrants from participation in public life, most flagrantly by restricting voting rights. Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century.In a departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the United States, Ballots and Bibles views religion as a critical tool for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full membership in the nation. The Catholic Church must, Sterne concludes, be considered as powerful an engine for ethnic working-class activism from the 1880s until the 1930s as the labor union or the political machine.
Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations of Rhode Island
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Rhode Island
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Publisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Italian Immigrant and the Roman Catholic Church in Rhode Island
Author: Margaret M. Watkinson
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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The Early Catholic Church in Rhode Island
Author: John Williams Haley
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Catholicism in Rhode Island
Author: Patrick T. Conley
Publisher: Rhode Island Publications Society
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publisher: Rhode Island Publications Society
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Power of Silence
Author: Robert Sarah
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1681497581
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI! In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1681497581
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI! In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."
Rhode Island Historical Tracts
Author:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Publisher:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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