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Kane, Paula Marie. "Boston Catholics and Modern American Culture, 1900-1920," Yale University, December 1987. Advisor: David Montgomery (16, 2, 11)
Using a paradigm of insider/outsider identity, the dissertation examines the Catholic post-immigrant community of the Archdiocese of Boston in the early 20th century. Creation of a comprehensive and distinctive Catholic subculture allowed Catholics to sustain themselves in a Yankee Protestant city as a numerical majority with a minority outlook. The study shows how a growing Catholic middle class helped reproduce this subculture through a network of institutions: seminary and college training, lay guilds, devotional and charitable organizations. Four selected areas of change and conflict—religious/ethnic identity; Catholic theological tradition; roles of women; Catholic literary culture,—explain how the Church and middle class joined efforts to create a conservative, moralistic, and didactic faith community and social group. Sources include Catholic and secular newspapers, Chancery correspondence, seminary and college records, organizational and parish histories, diaries, sermons and novels.
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