The 75th Anniversary, 1889-1964, St. Francis de Sales Parish, Chicago
Author: Chicago (Ill.). St. Francis de Sales Church
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 108
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Author: Chicago (Ill.). St. Francis de Sales Church
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 1964*
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 642
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 640
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 640
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: St. Francis de Sales Church (McKees Rocks, Pa.)
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Published: 1989*
Total Pages: 93
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James W. Sanders
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 312
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Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eileen M. McMahon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0813149274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor Irish Americans as well as for Chicago's other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina's in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America. She reveals the role the parish church played in achieving a cohesive and vital ethnic neighborhood and shows how ethno-religious distinctions gave way to racial differences as a central point of identity and conflict. For most of this century the parish served as an important mechanism for helping Irish Catholics cope with a dominant Protestant-American culture. Anti-Catholicism in the society at large contributed to dependency on parishes and to a desire for separateness from the American mainstream. As much as Catholics may have wanted to insulate themselves in their parish communities, however, Chicago demographics and the fluid nature of the larger society made this ultimately impossible. Despite efforts at integration attempted by St. Sabina's liberal clergy, white parishioners viewed black migration into their neighborhood as a threat to their way of life and resisted it even as they relocated to the suburbs. The transition from white to black neighborhoods and parishes is a major theme of twentieth-century urban history. The experience of St. Sabina's, which changed from a predominantly Irish parish to a vibrant African-American Catholic community, provides insights into this social trend and suggests how the interplay between faith and ethnicity contributes to a resistance to change.