Tag: Catholics

Free Download Chairman English Department George Dardess, "In the Spirit of St. Francis and the Sultan: Catholics and Muslims Working Together for the Common Good"
English | ISBN: 1570759073 | 2011 | 205 pages | EPUB | 623 KB
A guide for Catholics and Muslims on how to reach greater understanding of the other’s tradition in order to work together to end social injustice

Free Download Jonathon L. Earle, "Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda "
English | ISBN: 184701240X | 2021 | 266 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
First scholarly treatment of Uganda’s first elected ruler; offers new insights into the religious and political history of modern Uganda.

Free Download Adam L. Tate, "Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861"
English | ISBN: 0268104174 | 2018 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 911 KB + 2 MB
In the fascinating Catholics’ Lost Cause, Adam Tate argues that the primary goal of clerical leaders in antebellum South Carolina was to build a rapprochement between Catholicism and southern culture that would aid them in rooting Catholic institutions in the region in order to both sustain and spread their faith.

Free Download Bryn Geffert, "Catholics without Rome: Old Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and the Reunion Negotiations of the 1870s"
English | ISBN: 0268202427 | 2022 | 560 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Free Download Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians"
English | ISBN: 026820280X | 2022 | 334 pages | EPUB | 460 KB

Free Download Francis Young, "English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553-1829 "
English | ISBN: 1409455653 | 2013 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In spite of an upsurge in interest in the social history of the Catholic community and an ever-growing body of literature on early modern ‘superstition’ and popular religion, the English Catholic community’s response to the invisible world of the preternatural and supernatural has remained largely neglected. Addressing this oversight, this book explores Catholic responses to the supernatural world, setting the English Catholic community in the contexts of the wider Counter-Reformation and the confessional culture of early modern England. In so doing, it fulfils the need for a study of how English Catholics related to manifestations of the devil (witchcraft and possession) and the dead (ghosts) in the context of Catholic attitudes to the supernatural world as a whole (including debates on miracles). The study further provides a comprehensive examination of the ways in which English Catholics deployed exorcism, the church’s ultimate response to the devil. Whilst some aspects of the Catholic response have been touched on in the course of broader studies, few scholars have gone beyond the evidence contained within anti-Catholic polemical literature to examine in detail what Catholics themselves said and thought. Given that Catholics were consistently portrayed as ‘superstitious’ in Protestant literature, the historian must attend to Catholic voices on the supernatural in order to avoid a disastrously unbalanced view of Catholic attitudes. This book provides the first analysis of the Catholic response to the supernatural and witchcraft and how it related to a characteristic Counter-Reformation preoccupation, the phenomenon of exorcism.

Free Download Eveline Bouwers, "Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World "
English | ISBN: 0367650975 | 2023 | 374 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world – revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between religious and secular grievances, and illuminating Catholic pluralism.

Free Download The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality By Kristy Nabhan-Warren
2013 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 1469607166 | EPUB | 1 MB
The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favor of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas–those who have completed a Cursillo weekend–to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity.Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as historical research, Nabhan-Warren shows the importance of Latino Catholics in the spread of the Cursillo movement. Cursillistas’ stories, she argues, guide us toward a new understanding of contemporary Christian identities, inside and outside U.S. borders, and of the importance of globalizing American religious boundaries.

Free Download Evangelizing Catholics: A Mission Manual for the New Evangelization By Scott Hahn
2014 | 175 Pages | ISBN: 1612787738 | EPUB | 1 MB
To be a Christian is to be an evangelizer. When the Catholic Church calls us to a "New Evangelization," that’s simply a reminder us of what has always been true. The good news is: you can do it – you can evangelize – and Scott Hahn shows you how.

Free Download After This Life: What Catholics Believe about What Happens Next By Benedict J. Groeschel
2009 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 1592764428 | EPUB | 1 MB
Fr. Groeschel knows first hand that most people prefer to avoid the issue of mortality entirely. He explains that through a better understanding of the Christian faith, a person can learn to live each new day with confidence based on the mercy and love of the Savior.