The Fifties
Resources for History Workshop, the Fifties. Professor Rachel Devlin
Websites
- Catholic Workers Movement - Dorothy DayDay was co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement along with Peter Maurin. The site includes her writings.
- The Presbiterian Guardian, 1935-1979This publication was "an important voice of n the early years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in its vigorous opposition to modernism and its proclamation and defense of Reformed orthodoxy."
- A Brief Overview of Black Religious History in the U.S.A comprehensive essay created by Pew Research Center. It has section "Black clergy and the civil rights movement."
- Zellers v. HuffThis lawsuit in New Mexico involving multiple parties contested the use of nuns, religious brothers and priests as teachers in publicly supported schools under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It was was the first state case to implement separation of church and state in public schools.
Books
The Black Church in America: African American Christian spirituality by
This book gives readers a broad understanding of the Black Church in America and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world. Explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilemmas Argues that in the Black Church, individual and communal destiny are bound together The author is a Priest in the Episcopal Church and teaches spirituality and Black Church studies at Duke University.
Call Number: Alexander BR563.N4B38 2006ISBN: 9781405118910Publication Date: 2006-06-09
American Catholic History, Second Edition by
An overview in primary documents of almost four hundred years of the American Catholic experience Among the first European explorers of the Americas, Catholics have a long and rich history in the United States. In this collection of significant letters, diaries, theological reflections, and other primary documents, the voices of Catholics in this country reveal what they have thought, believed, feared, and dreamed. American Catholic History spans the earliest missionary voyages in the sixteenth century, to the present day, illuminating the complex history, beliefs, and practices of what has become North American Roman Catholicism. In an engaging and accessible style, the brief introductions to each text provide historical and biographical context and illuminate broad themes in the development of the American Catholic tradition. From Catholicism's encounters with new frontiers to its long-time position outside mainstream culture, and from its intellectual life and political engagement to patterns of worship and spirituality, this book offers a lively first-hand review of Catholicism's multifaceted history in the United States. This expanded edition includes 34 new documents, and offers more robust coverage of the diverse communities of Catholics in this country.
Call Number: NOT at RUL. Please request via E-Z BorrowISBN: 9781479874743Publication Date: 2017-11-14
Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed through everyday and embodied acts of resistance, what she calls affective insurgency. In negotiating the histories of anti-Blackness, U.S. imperialism, and women's rights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Being Muslim explores how U.S. Muslim women's identities are expressions of Islam as both Black protest religion and universal faith tradition. Through archival images, cultural texts, popular media, and interviews, the author maps how communities of American Islam became sites of safety, support, spirituality, and social activism, and how women of color were central to their formation. By accounting for American Islam's rich histories of mobilization and community, Being Muslim brings insight to the resistance that all Muslim women must engage in the post-9/11 United States. From the stories that she gathers, Chan-Malik demonstrates the diversity and similarities of Black, Arab, South Asian, Latina, and multiracial Muslim women, and how American understandings of Islam have shifted against the evolution of U.S. white nationalism over the past century. In borrowing from the lineages of Black and women-of-color feminism, Chan-Malik offers us a new vocabulary for U.S. Muslim feminism, one that is as conscious of race, gender, sexuality, and nation, as it is region and religion.
Call Number: RUonlineISBN: 1479850608Publication Date: 2018-06-26
Strength for the Journey: An Autobiography by Call Number: Dana BX6495.F3A3 1987ISBN: 0671624350Publication Date: 1987-11-01
Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court by
Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents represents the most authoritative and up-to-date overview of the landmark cases that have defined religious freedom in America. Noted religious liberty expert Vincent Philip Munoz (Notre Dame) provides carefully edited excerpts from over fifty of the most important Supreme Court religious liberty cases. In addition, Munoz's substantive introduction offers an overview on the constitutional history of religious liberty in America. Introductory headnotes to each case provides the constitutional and historical context. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested matters of religious freedom from the Republics earliest days to current debates.
Call Number: RUonlineISBN: 1442208295Publication Date: 2013-07-01
