ISBN:
9780813118772
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (239 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version What Parish Are You From? : A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations
DDC:
305.6
Keywords:
Catholic Church ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Case studies
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Catholics ; Illinois ; Chicago
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Irish Americans ; Ethnic identity
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Irish Americans ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Case studies
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Parishes ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Case studies
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Race relations ; Religious aspects ; Catholic Church
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St. Sabina's (Church : Chicago, Ill.)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago's other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina's in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America. She reveals the role the parish church played in achieving a cohesive and vital ethnic neighborhood and shows how ethno-religious distinctions gave way to racial differences as a central point of identity and conflict.For most of this century the parish served as an i
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Making of the Irish Parish Community: A Historical Background; 2 St. Sabina: A Parish Founded on a Prairie; 3 ""I'm from Sabina's,"" 1916 to 1941; 4 Ticket to Heaven: Community and Religion at St. Sabina's, 1940 to 1960; 5 The Saints Come Marching In: Irish and Catholic Identity; 6 The Troubles: Racial Tension and the Parish Community; 7 Make No Small Plans: The Parish Community and the OSC; 8 Where Two or Three Are Gathered: St. Sabina's in the 1960s; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B
Description / Table of Contents:
CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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