The Bread of the Strong : : Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985 / / Jack Lee Downey.

Contributing to the ongoing excavation of the spiritual lifeworld of Dorothy Day-"the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism"-The Bread of the Strong offers compelling new insight into the history of the Catholic Worker movement, includ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Catholic Practice in North America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction.
  • 1. Canadien Identity, Nationalism, and Muscular Catholicism
  • 2. Onésime Lacouture and Conversion in the White Desert
  • 3. Onésime Lacouture and the "Return to the Gospel"
  • 4. Mackerel Snappers in the US Industrial Era
  • 5. John Hugo and the Retreat's Southward Migration
  • 6. Dorothy Day, Anti- triumphalism, and a Personalist Approach to Voluntary Poverty
  • Epilogue: To Afflict the Comfortable and Comfort the Afflicted. Catholic Worker Pacifism as a Form- of- Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index