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INDEX

Abenaki Indians, 100

Abeyta, Bernardo, 114, 120, 121, 128

Acadia, 97, 190. See also Acadian Catholicism;

Acadians Acadian Catholicism, xvi;

historiography of, 97–103;

holy water in, 106;

and lay baptism, 104–105;

and popular Catholicism generally, 107–108;

and priestly influence, 103–104;

shortage of priests, 108–109

Acadians: dispersal of, 97, 190;

as good Catholics, 97–101. See also Acadian Catholicism

affinity arguments: and Cajun Catholicism, 110;

and devotional revolution in Ireland, 43–45;

and Hispanic Pentecostalism, 147148;

and Methodist and Baptist success, 45;

and Protestant individualism, 45–46

Ahlstrom, Sydney, 152, 154

Akenson, Donald, 1, 6, 7, 18–19, 27, 37–38;

on “national stock” estimates, 14;

on nativist hostility, 41

Albanese, Catherine, 152, 154, 191

Allport, Gordon, 157–158

altars, home, 108, 134

America (magazine), 87–89

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 14–15

American-Italian Historical Association, 62

American Revolution, 3, 83, 178–179;

and Irish Americans, 20–21, 26

analogical thinking, 163–166

apparitions, 107

Applegate, Frank, 126

Aragón, José Rafael, 114

Austin, Mary, 126–127

Babcock, Barbara, 145

Bacon, Leonard, 152, 153

Baird, Robert, 152

Baptists, 16, 21–22, 45, 174–176, 178–180

Bataan survivors, and Chimayó, 124–125

Batson, C. Daniel, 159–161

Baudier, Roger, 102–103

benevolent societies, 7–9

Bodin, Ron, 108–109

Brasseaux, Carl, 98, 105

Briggs, John, 70

Browne, Henry, 89–90

Brown Scapular, xii, 42

Buddhism, 94

Burke, Edmund, 160–161

Cajun, meaning of term, 190–191

Cajun Catholicism, xvi, 96, 101–102;

historiography of, 102–104;

and lay baptism, 103, 104, 106;

and popular Catholicism generally, 107;

role of priests, 105–106;

and rosary, 108;

women central to, 108–112

campanilismo, 64, 66, 68–71, 74, 85

Cash, W. F., 24

Catholic imagination, 163–166

Catholics, as threat to American democracy, 152–153, 155, 164–165. See also individual ethnic groups

Celtic religion, xiii

Center for Migration Studies, 62

Chimayó (shrine), xviii;

ex votos at, 116–120;

and Hispano Catholic identity, 113, 115;

models of Hispano spirituality, 125–126;

and Nuestro Señor de Esquípulas cult, 114, 120, 121;

pilgrimage to, during Holy Week, 115, 118120, 122, 123–126;

popularity of, 122–126;

and Pueblo Spanish style, 127–128;

santero art at, 114–115;

and Santo Niño cult, 115, 120, 121;

and visited by María Martínez, 121–122

Civil War (U.S.), 178

Collins, Randall, 172

colonization, and study of religion, 150

confessionalization, 57–58

Connell, Robert, 150, 168–169

consensus model, 152–153, 191

conversion experience: and evangelical Christianity, 161;

as transition to mature religiosity, 151

corpses, connection between infants and, 106

Crusades, 138

Cuban Catholicism, 132–134

Cullen, Paul Cardinal, 33, 43, 177

Cusack, Margaret Ann, 55–56, 189

Daoism, 94

Deck, Allan Figueroa, 134, 139, 146, 147

degradation narrative, 93–95, 150–151

Delumeau, Jean, 67

democracy, American, 152–153, 155–156, 164–165

De Rosa, Gabriele, xiii, 67

devotional revolution in Ireland, 10, 32–33, 43–45, 144, 176–177

dialectical thinking, 164, 174

Díaz-Stevens, Ana María, 130, 139, 141, 146, 191;

and matriarchal core hypothesis, 134–136

di Leonardo, Micaela, 62–63

Dillingham Commission, 80–81, 82

Diner, Hasia, 54

“doing gender,” 111–112, 191

Dolan, Jay, 8, 96, 134, 139, 155–156;

on devotional revolution in Ireland, 33

domestic service, social disciplining and, 53–58

Doyle, David, 7, 13–14, 21

Dunne, Edward M., 89

Durango (Mexico), 121

Durkheim, Emile, 150, 168–170, 172

Eid, Leroy, 7

evangelical Christianity, 2;

and American Revolution, 21–22;

and conversion experience, 161;

and Irish Americans, 17–19;

rational choice theory on, 178–180;

and Scotch-Irish, 16

Evangeline, 98–101

ex voto, 116–120

Faith Maturity Scale, xviii, 161–163, 167

Famine, Irish, xv, 1–2, 27

Felician, Father, 99–100

feminization of religion, 50–53, 109–112, 131;

and female sociability, 51–52;

and masculinity, 175–176

Fichera, Sebastian, 70

Finke, Roger, 16, 171–172, 173, 174–175, 176–180, 192

Fischer, David Hackett, 8

Flores, Richard, 132

France: and Acadian Catholics, 97–98;

feminization of religion in, 52

free rider problem, 181–184

Galgani, Gemma, 165

Gallo, Patrick, 65

Gambino, Richard, 64

Geertz, Clifford, 154

gender: and Cajun Catholicism, 109–112;

and Hispanic Catholicism, 130–138;

and Irish immigrants, 50–58

Gilligan, Carol, 166–167

Girardot, Norman, 94

Goizueta, Roberto, 136–137, 139

Great Awakening, 10, 12–13

Greek Orthodox church, female religiosity in, 111–112

Greeley, Andrew, xviii, 1, 23, 146, 174;

on the Catholic imagination, 164–167

Griffin, Patrick, 12–13

Griffiths, Naomi, 97

Grosse Île (Quebec), 27

Guatemala, 114

Gumina, Deana, 74–75

Gutiérrez, Ramón, 113, 118, 120–121, 126, 128

Hackett, David, 154–155

Hadley, Herbert, 87–88

Hall, G. Stanley, 151

Hatch, Nathan, 22

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 98

Hispanic Catholicism: alleged distinctivenes of, 129–131;

confessional bias in the study of, 138–143;

and matriarchal core hypothesis, 130–138. See also Chimayó

Hispanics, 129

holy dirt, 113–114, 116, 122

holy fairs, 19–20

Holy Thursday, 123–124

holy water, 106, 113, 121

Holy Week, 118–126, 136

holy wells (Ireland), 35

Hopcroft, Rosemary, 45–46

Hotten-Somers, Diane, 54–55

Hout, Michael, 23

Hynes, Eugene, 43–45

Iannaccone, Laurence, 181–183

image cults, 107, 150

immanence, 163–166

immigration, 29, 82–83, 189

Infant of Prague, 121

Intrinsic/Extrinsic orientation, xviii, 157–159, 167

Irish American Catholics, 16–19;

becoming Catholic, 35–39;

demographic distinctiveness of, 48–50;

disproportionate representation of, among Catholic hierarchy, 29–30;

as gold standard for American Catholicism, 29–30;

retention of Irish identity by, 23;

in San Francisco, 39–41;

as sect movement, 176–177;

stereotypes about, 30–32;

in Toronto, 41–42;

as under the control of priests, 32;

women in domestic service, 53–58

Irish American Protestants, 1–26;

compared to Irish American Catholics, 5–19;

as majority of Irish Americans, 1–2;

and being American, 20–22;

retention of Irish identity by, 2326;

and Scotch-Irish, 2–19

Irish Americans: and evangelical Christianity, 16;

in pre-Famine period, 9–10;

similarities among, 4–9. See also Irish American Catholics; Irish American Protestants

Irish identity, 5–6, 23–26, 59

Irish nationalism, 5–6, 50

Italian American Catholicism: attitude of American prelates toward, 93–96;

compared to Irish American Catholicism, 30, 65;

as cultural response to nativist hostility, 80–86;

and degradation narrative, 93–95;

festas of, 65, 68–69, 76–80, 84–86;

immigration and, 82–83, 189;

Prohibition and, 83–84;

and rise of localized cults, 77–80;

in San Francisco, 71–77;

Standard Story about, 63–80, 94;

supposed pagan origins of, 64–65, 92–93

Italian Catholicism in Italy, xii–xiii, 138–139

“Italian problem, the,” 38, 87–93, 153

Jones, Maldwyn, 11

Kelley, Dean, 181–182

Lamy, Jean Baptiste, 122

Larkin, Emmet, 10;

on the devotional revolution, 32–35, 43, 177

lay baptism, 104–105, 106, 108–109

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 98–99

Los Pastores, 132–133

Louisiana, and Cajun Catholicism, 96

Lourdes, 113, 117, 120

Lubbock, John, 150

Madonna dei Miracoli di Cicagna, 73, 76, 77, 78

Madonna della Guardia, x, 73, 74–75, 76, 77,

78, 189

Madonna del Lume, 73, 74–75, 76, 77

madonnas, localized, 71–77

Mafia, 81

male flight and feminization of religion, 51–52

Martínez, María, 121–122

Mary cult, xii, 44

masculinity, in U.S. South, 175–176

Massa, Mark, 164–165

Matovina, Timothy, 129, 137

matriarchal core hypothesis, 130–138, 186;

functions of, 142–143, 145–146

McAvoy, Thomas, 31

McCaffrey, Lawrence, 34, 103

McDonald, Forrest, 14

McWhinney, Grady, 175

Meem, John Gaw, 126, 127, 128

Merton, Robert, 168

Methodists, 16, 21–22, 45, 174–176, 178–180

Mexican American Catholicism, 129, 136–137, 140–141

Miami, 133–134

Mikmaq Indians, 100

Miller, Kerby, 36–39, 54, 58

Mills, C. Wright, 16

Molleno, Antonio, 114

monotheism, 184–185

Mormonism, 144

multiple narratives approach, xviii, 153–157

nativist hostility: toward Irish, 32, 36–39, 58;

toward Italian Americans, 80–86

New Mexico. See Chimayó

New York City, 141

Nuestro Señor de Esquípulas, 114, 120, 121

O’Brien, Michael, 4–7

O’Connell, Daniel, 6

O’Donovan, John, 36

O’Keefe, Georgia, 127

Olson, Daniel, 180–181, 182

Ordnance Survey (Ireland), 6, 36

orientalism, 145

Orsi, Robert, 52, 96, 143–144, 152, 155;

and Catholic imagination, 165–167

Our Lady of Charity shrine (Miami), 132–134

Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 72

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel: chapel in San Franciso, x;

church in New York, 66, 68–69;

popular cult of, 69–70

Ownsby, Ted, 175–176

pagan Catholicism, 64

Parsons, Talcott, 168–169

patterns (socioreligious events) (Ireland), 35

Peña, Milagros, 134–135

Penal Laws, 8

Penitentes, xiii–xiv, 114, 118, 123, 131

Pentecostalism, 144, 146–148

pilgrimage, 107, 111–112, 113–126, 132, 150

Pio, Padre, 165

Pius IV, 47–48

Polla (Italy), 69

pope, obedience to, 47–48

prejudice and religion, 158

Presbyterians, in early Republic, 9–16

Profession of Faith, 47–48

Prohibition, 83–84, 190

Protestant imagination, ix, 93–96, 186;

contrasted with Catholic imagination, 163–166;

and degradation narrative, 93–95, 150–151;

and dialectical thinking, 164;

and Durkheim and Weber, 169–170;

and free rider problem, 181–184;

and masculinized Western culture, 145;

and psychology of religion, 157–163;

and rational choice theory, 170–184;

and social evolutionary perspective, 149–152;

and study of American religion, 149–150. See also matriarchal core hypothesis

Protestantism, 143;

and degradation narrative, 93–95, 150–151;

fit with American democracy, 152–153;

and psychology of religion, 151–152

psychology of religion, 151;

and measures of religion, 157–163

Pueblos, 114, 121–122, 145

Pueblo Spanish style, 127–128, 191

Puerto Rican Catholicism, 135–136, 141

Purgatory, 165

Purvis, Thomas, 14–15

Quest Scale, xviii, 159–161, 167, 187

rational choice theory: emphasis on creed, 173–174;

on importance of strictness, 174176;

and theory of religious economies, 171–172

Reformation, Protestant, 45–46, 93

Reinhard, Wolfgang, 57

relic cults, 150

RELTRAD, 17–18

remittances sent by Irish from America, 49

Romanized Catholicism, 46–48, 50, 57–58

rosary, xii, 42, 108

rounding rituals, 35

sacramentals, 165–166

Said, Edward, 145

St. Brendan, 3

St. Emydius, xi

St. Patrick benevolent societies, 7–9

St. Patrick’s Church (San Francisco), 40–41

St. Paulinus festa, 78–79

St. Rocco, x, 69

Saints Peter and Paul Church (San Franciso), ix–xi, 72–77, 190

Salpointe, John B., 122

San Antonio, 132, 137, 140

San Francisco: Irish American Catholics in, 39–41;

Italian American Catholics in, 71–77

San Francisco de Asís Church (Taos), 127

San Gennaro festa, 78

Santa Maria Maddalena de Pazzi Church (Philadelphia), 90–92

Sante Fe, 113, 126–127, 128

santero art, 114

Santiago (St. James) festival, 123

Santo Niño (Holy Child) shrine (Chimayó), 115, 120, 121

Scotch-Irish, xv, 2–16;

and evangelical Christianity, 16;

history of the term, 6–7;

and Presbyterian Church, 11–16;

sacramental traditions of, 19–20;

and U.S. South, 24

secularization theory, 171

Smith, Jonathan, 94

social disciplining, domestic service and, 53–58

social evolutionary perspective, 149–152

sociology of religion, 168–184

South (U.S.), 1;

and evangelical Christianity, 175–176;

and Irish Americans, 17–18, 22

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, 126

Spencer, Herbert, 150

SSPP. See Saints Peter and Paul Church Standard Story (of Italian American Catholicism), xvi, 186;

components of, 63–68;

origins of, 86–93;

and Protestant imagination, 94–96

Starbuck, Edwin, 151

Stark, Rodney, 15;

emphasis on creed, 173–174;

on importance of strictnesss, 174–176;

on Irish Catholics, 176–177;

on powerful gods, 184–185;

on rise of Methodists and Baptists, 178–180;

and theory of religious economies, 171–172

Stations of the Cross, xii, 140

Steinberg, Stephen, 63

stem family, 44–45

Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M., 139, 142, 146, 191

strictness: and free rider problem, 181–184;

importance of, in rational choice theory, 174–176

Swanson, Guy, 163

Sweet, William, 11

Tamney, Joseph, 181, 182

Taos, 127, 128

Tarango, Yolanda, 136

Tewa Indians, 114

Third Plenary Council (Baltimore), 31

Thurston, Herbert, xii

tongue-dragging, 92

Toronto, Irish Catholics in, 41–42

Tracy, David, xviii, 163–166, 174

Trent, Council of, xiii, 47–48

Treviño, Roberto, 134

Trinterud, Leonard, 10–11

Tweed, Thomas, 96, 130, 133, 154, 155, 191

Tylor, Edward, 150

Ulster Presbyterians. See Scotch-Irish

ultramontanism, 46–48

Vecoli, Rudolph, 63, 65, 85, 87

Via Crucis, 140

Virgen de Guadalupe, 137, 140

Weber, Max, 45, 55, 168–170, 172

white ethnics, 62

white masses, 108

William of Orange, 103

Wilson, John, 154–155, 191

Wittke, Carl, 31

Wuthnow, Robert, 170–171, 182–183

Young, John Howard, 104–106

Zubaría, Antonio de, 122

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