This is a historical analysis of the Puerto Rican and Cuban American Catholic experience, beginning with their roots in the history of their homelands up to the closing of Vatican II. These people are difficult to assimilate into the Church as they do not see thenselves as permanently in the US.

Looks at the conflict between American culture and Catholicism throughout history, covering such issues as democracy, immigration, war, women's liberation, civil rights, and the economy, and their effects on the Catholic Church. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text brings to non-Hispanic readers an overview of the history and the ongoing issues underlying the Euro-American Church's policies toward the fastest-growing segment of its membership. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Mexican Americans comprise the largest segment of Hispanics in the US, but are struggling for full acceptance in the Catholic Church. This is a history of this community, which argues that the Church will embrace the new challenge Hispanics present in the 21st century as it becomes more tolerant. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of essays has been written in tribute to Martin E. Marty, a scholar who has certainly earned his reputation as the most influential living interpreter of religion in America. During his distinguished career - which includes over forty books, countless articles, and a generation of students - Marty has disentangled the jumbled and competing directions of American religious history by focusing on a central theme that has run through it all - the distinctively American experiment with pluralism...read more

The history of Catholicism in America focuses on the people belonging to America's largest religious denomination, from colonial times, through the immigration movements, to the contemporary Church

Book by Dolan, Jay P., Appleby, R. Scott, Byrne, Patricia, Campbell, Debra

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Product Description: This work shows that revivalism, traditionally viewed as a Protestant phenomenon, was also a central feature of Catholic life and activity in the 19th century. It suggests that the religion of revivalism not only found a home among Catholics, but was a major force in forming their piety...read more