1st Edition
The Nativist Movement in America Religious Conflict in the 19th Century
Chapter one, "Anti-Catholic Religious Nativism: A Critical Moment in American History"
Chapter two, "Convent Burning in Massachusetts"
Chapter three "Riots in Philadelphia,"
Chapter four, "The Pope’s Stone in Washington, DC"
Chapter five, "What We Learn from Religious Nativism,"
Documents
Biography
Katie Oxx is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Joseph's University.
"A remarkably readable and erudite study, The Nativist Movement in America uses several touchstone moments in the nineteenth-century to show how virulent anti-Catholicism was in the United States. Katie Oxx wonderfully brings us into an America teeming with religious violence, where convents were burned, riots ravaged cities over Bibles, and stealing stones became an expression of patriotic Protestantism. Terrific for the classroom and informative for the most senior of scholars, The Nativist Movement in America should be on every U.S. religious historian’s bookshelf."
– Edward J. Blum, co-author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America"Katie Oxx offers a compelling new interpretation of religious nativism in American history by vividly reconstructing three pivotal episodes of anti-Catholic violence in the mid-nineteenth century. The book brings history to life through an especially well-chosen selection of primary documents and it will appeal to students and general readers alike."
– Kevin Kenny, author of Peacable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment
