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A Parish Grows Around the Common : Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens, 1869-1995
Author: Gagnon, Richard L.Date: 1995Publication: Community of Teresian CarmelitesLanguage : enFind in a library: 35172722History of the Roman Catholic parish of Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens (what became "Notre Dame/St. Joseph Parish") in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1869 to 1995. Presented chronologically according to the lives and service of parish pastors and the achievements of their parishioners. The role of this parish in Worcester, and its development intertwined with the change and growth of the city. Emphasis on the parish's Franco American community - its parish laity and leadership. Includes lists of pastors, associate pastors, and their terms of service at Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens; pastors and terms of services at St. Joseph, Holy Name of Jesus, and St. Anthony parishes; choir directors, organists, and concerts from 1869 to 1995. -
Historically Speaking on Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Churches
Author: Skinner, Ralph B.Date: 1965Publication: Twin City PrinteryLanguage : enFind in a library: 1425699Historical overview of the churches and religious communities spread throughout the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, from the 18th century to the 1960s. Discussions on the various growths of local buildings and congregations - divided by denomination. Includes Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, and discussion on ecumenism and inter-faith communities. Compiled and expanded from "Home History Talks," the author's historical commentaries broadcast on Lewiston, Maine's WLAM radio. Illustrated in black and white photograph. -
St. Anne as Symbol of Literacy in Québec Culture
Author: Murray, Kathleen RochefortDate: 2000-09(2000 fall / 2001 winter)Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article on iconography surrounding Ste. Anne - the mother of Jesus' mother, Mary - in the Roman Catholic culture of Québec. Exploration's of the saint's importance for understanding Québec and its people more intimately, first in terms of popular belief in her healing capabilities, and otherwise in terms of her believed role in the education of Mary. Her function as a spiritual icon of education for Québec believers. Popular relationships to the saint and her imagery, and the historical development of her spiritual and artistic representations as intercessor, educator, mother, and patroness in Québec. Thoughts on the development of Ste. Anne as a symbol for education. -
The Spice of Popery : Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier
Author: Chmielewski, Laura M.Date: 2012Publication: University of Notre Dame PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 726819031Exploration of Maine's religious culture and various religious identities in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A study of religious eclecticism in the New England/New France borderland that complicates conventional notions of Christian orthodoxy, or of various Protestant and Catholic peoples and ways of living, in a corner of North America during the Colonial Period. The region's interactions between European Protestant settlers, Wabanaki, and French Catholics; the interplay of their various powers and religious varieties; the birth of hybrid borderland cultures; the solidification of religious identities. Particular emphasis on Catholic/Protestant conflicts in this time period and region. Illustrated with maps, portraits, and black and white photographs. Based on the 2006 dissertation of a similar title. -
The Catholicism of Jack Kerouac
Author: Sorrell, Richard S.Date: 1982-sprLanguage : enFind in a library: 1773426Observations of Jack Kerouac's ethnoreligious background - Franco American and Roman Catholic - and what the author describes as one of three "panels of the survivance triptych" : Catholicism. Historical descriptions of the role and actions of the Roman Catholic Church in historic New France, French Canada, Québec, and later in Franco American communities like Kerouac's Lowell, Massachusetts. Franco Catholicism's Jansenist and Manichean tendencies as rooted in early French North American history. Kerouac's early devotion and later rebellion from Catholic practice, with an ever persistent reflection of and fascincation with select observably Catholic conditions and attitudes, including the themes of guilt and suffering apparent in his recorded life and works. Shades of Catholicism in "Beat Movement" mystical and anti-material mores, and intersections with Kerouac's attentions to Buddhism. Selected revelations of Kerouac's interior life, sexual life, and moral concerns as found in his literature and in select quotation. -
La situation religieuse aux États-Unis : illusions et réalités
Author: At, Jean AntoineDate: 1905Publication: Arthur SavaèteLanguage : frFind in a library: 49099459Une histoire et une critique de l'église Catholique romain aux États-Unis, écrit par un scolaire français. -
Migrants and Millworkers : The French Canadian Population of Burlington and Colchester, 1860-1870
Author: Beattie, BetsyDate: 1992-sprLanguage : enFind in a library: 1773222Article describing the growth of the French Canadian population in Vermont around the time of the American Civil War, and the differences of Canadian immigrant labor, property ownership, and political activity in select Vermont cities, as well as between those of other New England textile centers of the same time period. Steady growth of unskilled laborers and relative decline of economic conditions among Vermont's growing French Canadian population between 1850 and 1870. Separate social, economic, and political developments of Burlington, Winooski Falls, and greater Colchester that can be traced to Burlington's incorporation in the 1860s. Research on variances in property ownership among French Canadian immigrants in these locations, as well as their rates of naturalization, English fluency, and relevant voting laws. Includes tables with figures on occupational status, childbirths, and youth labor. Subtitled, "The high level of political activity of Colchester's French Canadians contrasted sharply to that of Burlington émigrés." -
Disobedient Ancestors
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2009-spr/sumLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 52243319Personal and historical essay weaving a son's reflections on his Québec-born, rebellious, itinerant father through the changing shape of Catholicism in New France, Lower Canada, and Québec into the 21st century. The persistent grip of a longtime North American family's roots. His father's formative youth and later hatred of clergy, their tenuous relationship, the power of cultural narrative, and the shapes that one's departing quests from them can take. -
"Speak White" : Language Policy, Immigration, Discourse, and Tactical Authenticity in a French Enclave in New England
Author: Peters, JasonDate: 2013-07-00Language : enFind in a library: 507095240Article analyzing the Sentinelle Affair in 1920s Rhode Island as a case study in <i>la survivance</i>, for the role of language politics in spectres of assimilation and white ethnicity in the United States, and as a lens to the political economies that have historically upheld English Only language policy arguments. An expansive reading of Sentinellist responses to American Catholic Church English language policies for parochial schools. How events like the Sentinelle Affair imply what have been historical, multifaceted linguistic realities in education throughout the United States, and in particular in New England French-heritage enclaves of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Argument in favor of Franco American "settlement" in New England as best understood in the discourse of diaspora instead of the "resistance-assimilation" dichotomy that often accompanies discussions of local culture in American immigration. -
The Historical Context of North American Theology : The Canadian Story
Author: Donovan, Daniel L.Date: 1986-06-11Publication: Catholic Theological Society of AmericaText of a brief presentation on the history of Canadian "Catholicisms," owing to the traditions established in Canada's New France, and to those of Scots, Irish, and eastern European immigrant groups to Canada in the early nineteenth century. A descriptive timeline of the Québec Catholic Church from 1763 to the 1980s, with an emphasis on theological thought and its historical underpinnings in a Canadian context, Québec nationalism, and ultramontanism. Descriptions of English Canadian Catholicism. The divisions, similarities, and relationships of these theologies as elements of what the author calls, "the Canadian experiment" (22).