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Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome

Book by Patrick Allitt; Cornell University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Catholic Church--History--19th Century, Catholic Church--History--20th Century, Catholic Converts--Great Britain--History, Catholic Converts--United States--History, Intellectuals--Religious Life--Great Britain--History, Intellectuals--Religious Life--United States--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...work, however, convert intellectuals did...British and American Catholic converts followed each others...In both countries Catholics were a numerical...first generation of converts found little Catholic...trying to show what Catholic science or Catholic history as serious...would be like. "We Catholics have no philosophy...1854 to the American convert writer Orestes Brownson...
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New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts

Book by Anne Sofie Roald; Brill, 2004

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Islam--Scandinavia, Multiculturalism--Scandinavia, Muslim Converts From Christianity--Scandinavia, Scandinavia--Ethnic Relations

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...would be strange if many Western converts did not take a different stand...Werners notion that Scandinavian Catholic converts instigated the process of modernity (Werner 2000). As most Western converts are socialized in a cul- tural...
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The Deonme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

Book by Marc David Baer; Stanford University Press, 2010

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Deonmeh--History, Jews--Turkey--History, Muslim Converts From Judaism--Turkey--History, Turkey--Ethnic Relations, Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...that if a Jew in Spain converted, he would be granted all the rights and privileges (above all commercial privileges) as a Catholic subject. 19 The forced migration of Jews from Spain and Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century had disrupted and caused...
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American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era

Book by Deirdre M. Moloney; University of North Carolina Press, 2002

Subjects:

Catholics--United States--History--19th Century, Catholics--United States--History--20th Century, Laity--Catholic Church--History--19th Century, Laity--Catholic Church--History--20th Century, Progressivism (United States Politics), Sociology, Christian--Catholic Church--History Of Doctrines--19th Century, Sociology, Christian--Catholic Church--History Of Doctrines--20th Century, Sociology, Christian--United States--History Of Doctrines--19th Century, Sociology, Christian--United States--History Of Doctrines--20th Century, United States--Social Conditions--1865-1918

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...African Americans at the Columbian Catholic Congress symbolized an important...relationship with other American Catholics and improved their status within the church. Catholic Converts and Lay Viewpoints Catholics at the 1893 congress also stressed...
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Graham Greene's Catholic Imagination

Book by Mark Bosco; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Catholic Church--In Literature, Catholics In Literature, Christian Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Greene, Graham--1904---Criticism And Interpretation, Greene, Graham--1904---Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...The Reactionary Revolution: The Catholic Revival in French Literature...decadent texts are littered with Catholic conversions: Catholicism was the...Fraser, xiv. 12. Patrick Allit, Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals...

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Journal Articles on: catholic converts

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The Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association

Journal article; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 84, 1998

Subjects:

American Catholic Historical Association, Annual meetings, Associations, Catholicism, History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...session treated "Asian Catholics on the West Coast...the context, "Asian Catholics on the West Coast...Berkeley, who spoke on"Catholic Converts:Asian Women and the...Experience with the Catholic Church in the United...Japanese-American Catholics, 19201950: Asian...
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Clare Boothe Luce and the Jews: A Chapter from the Catholic-Jewish Disputation of Postwar America

Journal article by Andrew R. Heinze; American Jewish History, Vol. 88, 2000

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Apologetics (Christian), Catholic Church--International relations, Interfaith relations--International relations, Jewish religious literature, Jews--Portrayals, Judaism--Apologetic works, Judaism--International relations, Luce, Clare Boothe--Religious aspects, Psychoanalysis and religion--History, Psychoanalysis--History, Religious psychology--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, History, Literature, Entire Library

...returning to a true Catholic belief. Luces confessions...study of converted Catholic intellectuals in Britain and America, converts were more likely than born Catholics to address a wide...vintage. See Massa, Catholics and American Culture...Patrick Allitt, Catholic Converts: British and American...
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The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture

Journal article by Maria Lamonaca; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 57, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Critical work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...dramatized for some writers in Catholic ceremonial" (48). Along...opinion between Protestants and Catholics, the book also does a good...divisive and fractured; many Catholic converts (including some of the ones...envision nineteenth-century Catholics as serenely chanting and...
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Missionary Saints of the High Middle Ages: Martyrdom, Popular Veneration, and Canonization

Journal article by James D. Ryan; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 90, 2004

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Catholic churches, Martyrs, Middle Ages, Missionaries, Religious missions, Roman Catholic Church, Saints

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Dominicans, which had sent them to convert the infidel, preserved their...and in hope of winning Muslim converts.23 Mission ventures were...infidels and subdued them to the Catholic faith."88 The number of converts is probably a pious exaggeration...
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A Catholic Dilemma: White Flight in Northwest Flint

Journal article by Thomas C. Henthorn; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 31, 2005

Subjects:

Apologetics--Analysis, Apologetics--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Catholic Church, Church history--Analysis, Flint, Michigan--History, Flint, Michigan--Religious aspects, Flint, Michigan--Social aspects, Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...term evangelization at a Catholic Church. I think Catholics always had this attitude...Observation by author. (108) Converts to the Catholic Church are baptized and...remark. (110) Massa, Catholics and American Culture, 167...The Notre Dame Study of Catholic Life since Vatican II...

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Magazine Articles on: catholic converts

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It's Official: Adler Finally Converts

Magazine article by Martin Gardner; Free Inquiry, Vol. 20, Fall 2000

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Adler, Mortimer J.--Religion, Converts, Catholic--Evaluation, Philosophy and religion--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Official: Adler Finally Converts by Martin Gardner In 1940...sounded exactly like a Roman Catholic whose mentor was Saint Thomas...many of his students became Catholics. One became a monk; another...of the greatest of modern Catholic apologies, almost fifteen...finally received into he Catholic Church as a convert. "Philosophy Pioneer Enters...
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A Typology of Converts

Magazine article by John Garvey; Commonweal, Vol. 123, June 1, 1996

Subjects:

Church membership--Social aspects, Converts--Attitudes, Orthodox Eastern Church--Membership

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A typology of converts by John Garvey When...reason for remaining a Catholic was what other people...I dreaded becoming a convert. Let me explain what...enthusiasm about many converts which I distrusted...found in almost all converts, but in a significant...that some people do not convert to a belief so much...
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The Denomination Called Catholic

Magazine article by David R. Carlin; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 1997

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Catholic Church--Membership, Church--Catholicity, Interdenominational cooperation--Social aspects, Theology, Doctrinal--Appreciation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the disappearance of the Catholic ghetto, the mutual suspicions of Catholics and mainline Protestants...of anti-denominational converts, the undenominational internationalism...conservative structure of the Catholic hierarchy--constitute...make this claim; and most Catholics, both clergy and laity...the eyes of their non-Catholic neighbors. Sectarian Protestants...
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The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh

Magazine article by Joseph William Goetz; The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, Winter 2006

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Books--Book reviews, The Catholic Revival in English Literature: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh, 1845-1961 (Book), The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Catholics that the great convert, John Henry Newman, could see no prospect for a Catholic body of literature in a...of literature written by Catholics who wrote as Catholics. And he acknowledges that...selected many other English Catholic writers for the same reason...all of his authors were converts to Roman Catholicism. In...
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Russians and Catholics

Magazine article by Lawrence Uzzell; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, October 2002

Subjects:

Anti-Catholicism--Religious aspects, Catholic Church--Public opinion, Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian--Attitudes, Russians

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...presence of Roman Catholics on Russian soil is...that some Roman Catholic orders have been preaching...deliberately try to convert children previously...Baptists. On the Roman Catholic side, the difficulty...itself, most Roman Catholics agree with their man...should not try to win converts from among those Russians...supporters of Roman Catholic work in Russia are...

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Newspaper Articles on: catholic converts

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I'M HOLY BLAIR; EXCLUSIVE Storm after Ex-PM Converts to the Catholic Faith

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), December 23, 2007

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Catholics, Roman Catholics

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...EXCLUSIVE Storm after Ex-PM Converts to the Catholic Faith. Byline: by ADRIAN...Blair was welcomed into the Catholic church yesterday... and...last night from one of the Catholic priests closest to him...the Catholic church. Many Catholics claim Mr Blairs position...Mr Blair was planning to convert in 2004, told the Sunday...
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I'M HOLY BLAIR; EXCLUSIVE Storm after Ex-PM Converts to the Catholic Faith

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), December 23, 2007

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Catholics, Roman Catholics

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...EXCLUSIVE Storm after Ex-PM Converts to the Catholic Faith. Byline: by ADRIAN...Blair was welcomed into the Catholic church yesterday... and...last night from one of the Catholic priests closest to him...the Catholic church. Many Catholics claim Mr Blairs position...Mr Blair was planning to convert in 2004, told the Sunday...
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Tony Blair 'Is to Convert to Catholic Faith within Weeks'; Faith: Tony Blair with Pope Benedict at the Vatican in June

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 9, 2007

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Catholics, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tony Blair Is to Convert to Catholic Faith within Weeks...leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales. The Catholic newspaper The...reception into the Catholic Church is usually...calls from leading Catholics for Mr Blair torenounce...
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Blairdoes Do God - and Becomes a Catholic; BLAIRS COUNSELLOR: Father Michael Seed with a Friend at a CONVERT: Tony Blair at the Vatican in June with Pope Benedict XVI, Who Is Said to Be Delighted with the News

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 23, 2007

Subjects:

Catholics--Religious aspects, Roman Catholicism--Religious aspects, Roman Catholics--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Blairdoes Do God - and Becomes a Catholic; BLAIRS COUNSELLOR: Father Michael Seed with a Friend at a CONVERT: Tony Blair at the Vatican...comes as new figures show that Catholics have become Britainsdominant...reasons: there has neverbeen a Catholic Prime Minister and many of...Murphy-OConnor, head of the Catholic church in England andWales...
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Blair Does Do God -and Becomes a Catholic; CONVERT: Tony Blair at the Vatican in June with Pope Benedict XVI, Who Is Said to Be 'Delighted with the News' BLAIR'S COUNSELLOR: Father Michael Seed with a Friend at a Party

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 23, 2007

Subjects:

Blair, Tony, Roman Catholicism

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Blair Does Do God -and Becomes a Catholic; CONVERT: Tony Blair at the Vatican in...reasons: there has neverbeen a Catholic Prime Minister and many of Labours...Murphy-OConnor, head of the Catholic church in England andWales, said...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: catholic converts

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Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, b. Seville, Spain...was very influential among Catholics and was sympathetic to the...archbishop of Westminster, the Catholic primate of England. He succeeded...existed between the older Catholic families of England and the newer converts and worked to lessen the...
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Ch'Ing

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...toleration and employed some of them as astronomers and artists in the palace. But the Roman Catholic Churchs decision not to allow the Chinese converts to worship Confucius and their ancestors led to the expulsion of the missionaries in the early...
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Armenian Church

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in the 13th and 14th cent., and missionary work by the Roman Church in the 14th cent. resulted in many converts. In 1740 the Catholic Armenian rite was officially organized, in communion with the pope but under its own patriarch. Today there...
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Uganda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...representatives of the French Roman Catholic White Fathers; each of the missions gathered a group of converts, which in the 1880s became...Protestant faction defeat the Roman Catholic party in Buganda. In 1894...made up chiefly of Roman Catholic Baganda; and the Kabaka Yekka...
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Belarus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of the population belongs to the Orthodox church, and there are Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim minorities. Religious groups that have won converts more recently have suffered official discouragement and persecution since...

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