History of American Religion, 1865 to Present will consider the varieties of American religious experience while keeping in mind the importance of pluralism in the U.S. context.
In Chapter five and six, McGreevy discusses community organization and efforts by local liberal politicians and liberal clergy to organize against discrimination. McGreevy discusses the on going efforts from Catholic clergy leaders and their transition and further involvement with civil rights.
McGreevy at length discusses Saul Alinsky’s efforts in Chicago for example as he worked with local clergy [...]
Building on the framework of the earlier part of the book, in which the various ethnic parishes of urban America are depicted as being established and defined within their geographic locations within Northern cities in the early 20th Century, chapters 3 and 4 describe the defensive position these communities found themselves in after World War [...]
In Chapter’s 7 & 8 of Parish Boundaries, McGreevy discusses the impact on northern urban Catholic laity of involvement of Catholic Priests and Nuns in the Civil Rights movement and the results of the Second Vatican Council. In previous chapters, he has discussed the difficulty that Catholic neighborhoods and their parish priests had in [...]
In the Introduction to Parish Boundaries, McGreevey lays out a new framework for discussing race relations. He describes the existing thought as placing the emphasis on a biracial interpretation; that “‘white’ groups are presumed to have been ‘racist’ in essentially the same way”(3-4) so that different white ethnic populations are racist as a ‘white’ whole [...]