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Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. Katherine D. Moran traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the US colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors.Moran shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. She demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration about historical Catholic missionaries: the Jesuit Jacques Marquette in the Midwest, the Franciscan Junipero Serra in Southern California, and the Spanish friars in the Philippines. Comparing them favorably to the Puritans, Pilgrims, and the American Revolutionary generation, commemorators drew these missionaries into a cross-confessional pantheon of US national and imperial founding fathers. In the process, they cast Catholic missionaries as gentle and effective agents of conquest, uplift, and economic growth, arguing that they could serve as both origins and models for an American civilizing empire.The Imperial Church connects Catholic history and the history of US empire by demonstrating that the religious dimensions of American imperial rhetoric have been as cross-confessional as the imperial nation itself.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mai 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501748837
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	10 Mo

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The Imperial Church

A VO LU M E I N T H E S E R I E S

THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD edited by David C. Engerman, Amy S. Greenberg, and Paul A. Kramer

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The Imperial Church

Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire

Katherine D. Moran

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Moran, Katherine D., 1977– author. Title: The imperial Church : Catholic founding fathers and United States empire / Katherine D. Moran. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Series: The United States in the world | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2019038240 (print) | LCCN 2019038241 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501748813 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501748820 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781501748837 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Catholic Church—United States—Historiography. | Catholic Church—Missions—United States—History. | Catholic Church—Missions—Philippines—History. | AntiCatholicism— United States—History. | United States—History—Religious aspects—Catholic Church. | United States—Territorial expansion— Historiography. | Philippines—History—Religious aspects—Catholic Church. | United States—History—1865–1921. Classiﬁcation: LCC BX1406.3 .M67 2020 (print) | LCC BX1406.3 (ebook) | DDC 325/.320973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019038240 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019038241

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Anita, Anson, and Lissa

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Dirk and Greta

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Contents

Introduction: Thinking with Catholicism, Empire, and History

PART I. Jacques Marquette in the Upper Midwest 1. Making a Founding Father out of a French Jesuit 2. Imagining Peaceful Conquest

PART II. Franciscans in Southern California 3. Making Parallel Histories out of Spanish Missions 4. Embodying Hospitality and Paternalism

PART III. Friars in the Philippines 5. Revising and Rejecting Antifriarism 6. Envisioning Catholic Colonial Order Conclusion: Imperial Church Stories

Notes Bibliography Index

ix xiii

23 54

81 107

139 171 202

215 269 305

Acknowledgments

One of the great pleasures of ﬁnishing this book is the opportunity to thank the many people and institutions who have been a part of its creation. This book began at Johns Hopkins University, and I am grateful to Doro thy Ross for her uncompromising rigor and unﬂagging support. The work also beneﬁted immensely from Ron Walters’s good advice and wideranging knowledge, Jane Dailey’s incisive critique, and Nathan D. B. Connolly’s gen erous and generative ﬁnal comments. I have also learned a great deal—about historical scholarship and so much else—from the friends and fellow scholars I was lucky to meet during graduate school, especially Amy FengParker, Amanda Herbert, Cameron Logan, Clare Monagle, Catherine Molineux, Jes sica Roney, Yael Sternhell, Molly Warsh, and the late Andre Young. Cathe rine, in particular, has commented on more drafts over the years than I can count—and always with sparkling insight. Elizabeth and Len Liptak, friends from well before this book was conceived, opened their Sierra Madre home to me for a semesterlong research trip, and remain my models for easy, wel coming hospitality. I am also grateful to the undergraduate professors who convinced me, by word and example, that humanistic scholarship is good work and worth doing: especially Virginia Anderson, Greg Johnson, and Mark Pittenger. The bulk of this book was conceptualized and written while I was em ployed at two different universities and during a year I spent as a Fulbright fellow in Germany. It was a privilege to be a part of the history department at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. For their wise guidance and joyful

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