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Papist patriots: the making of an American Catholic identity
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Papist patriots: the making of an American Catholic identity

Maura Jane Farrelly
Oxford University Press, 1
2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199757718.001.0001

Abstract

18th century American revolution Anti-catholicism Catholic Church Catholic Church -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century Catholic Church -- United States -- History -- 18th century Catholic Church History Church history Hierarchy History of Christianity Individualistic Maryland Maryland -- Church history -- 18th century Obligation Order Papists Patriots Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religious aspects Revolution, 1775-1783 Rights-oriented Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church United States -- Church history -- 18th century United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church United States History History Rhetoric United States
This volume considers how and why colonial Catholics embraced the individualistic, rights-oriented ideology of the American Revolution, in spite of the fact that the Revolution's rhetoric was riddled with anti-Catholicism, and even though Catholicism has had an uneasy relationship with Enlightenment liberalism until very recently.

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