Suggestions for Further Reading:

Roman Catholicism

Chinnici, Joseph P. Living Stones: The History and Structure of Catholic Spiritual Life in the United States. Makers of the catholic Community: the Bicentennial History of the Catholic Church in America. New York: Macmillan, 1989.

Cross, Robert D. The Emergence of Liberal Catholicism in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.

Cunningham, Lawrence S. the Cathlic Experience: Space, Time, Silence, Prayer, Sacraments, Story, Persons, Catholicity, Community, and Expectations. New York: Crossroads, 1987.

Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985.

_____. Catholic revivalism: The American Experience, 1830-1900. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978.

_____. The Immigrant Church. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

_____, and Deck, Allan Figueroa, eds. Hispanic Catholic Culture in the U.S.: Issues and Concerns. The Notre Dame History of Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

Ellis, John Tracy. American Catholicism. The Chicago History of American Civilization. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Ferraro, Thomas J., ed. Catholic Lives/Contemporary America. (Special Issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly 93, no. 3.) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

Greeley, Andrew M. The Catholic Myth: The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1990.

McBrien, Richard P. Catholicism: Rev. ed. San Francisco: Harper, 1994.

McGreevy, John T. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North. Historical Studies of Urban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Meconis, Charles A. With Clumsy Grace: The American Catholic Left, 1961-1975. New York: Seabury, Continuum Book, 1979.

Orsi, Robert Anthony. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Yaven: Yale University Press, 1985.

_____. Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M, and Díaz-Stevens, Ana María, eds. An Enduring Flame: Studies on Latino Popular Religiosity. Program for the Analysis of Religion among Latinos. PARAL Studies Series. New York: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, City University of New York, 1994.

Taves, Ann. The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.

Vecsey, Christopher. On the Padres' Trail. American Indian Catholics, 1. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

_____. The Paths of Cateri's Kin. American Catholics, 2. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

Weaver, Mary Jo. Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

_____, and Appleby, R. Scott, eds. Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.