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(More customer reviews)When I told someone I was writing a book about the Catholic Church in North Carolina the response was: "That won't take long! It should result in a nice little pamphlet." The point was that until recently Catholics were as rare in NC as hen's teeth. Now the churches are bursting at the seams. Tar Heel Catholics is an effort to reconstruct the torturous journey from a handful of scattered members of the church in the early 19th century to the two prosperous dioceses in the state today. (However, North Carolina still has a lower percentage of its population Catholic than nearly any other state.)
My training was in sociology and I think I bring sociological perspectives to the work. Why was the church so slow to take root here? What position did the church take towards slavery, segregation? What were the dimensions of anti-Catholic sentiment? How did a church organization go from nothing to a complex bureaucracy?
My point is that the book should be of interest to folks who are not Catholics. I think it is solidly data-based yet written in an engaging style. Take a look!
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"Tar Heel Catholics recounts the story of the Catholic Church in what was long called mission territory on the doorstep of a rapidly developing American Catholic institutional presence. The explanation of this phenomenon lies in the history of the Deep South itself, including slavery, segregation, and the overwhelming religious dominance of the Baptist church. Tar Heel Catholics relates the great difficulty early churchmen encountered in attempting to establish Catholicism in an inhospitable environment."
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