1st Edition

Minorities and Reconstructive Coalitions The Catholic Question

By Willie Gin Copyright 2017
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As with Muslims today, Catholics were once suspected of being antidemocratic, oppressive of women, and supportive of extremist political violence. By the end of the twentieth century, Catholics were considered normal and sometimes valorized as exemplary citizens. Can other ethnic, racial, and religious minorities follow the same path? Minorities and Reconstructive Coalitions provides an answer... Read more

Ch. 1. The Multiplicity of the Catholic Past



Ch. 2. Transubstantiating the Body Politic—A Theory of Reconstructive Coalitions



Ch. 3. Catholic Incorporation from 1890 to the Mid-20th Century



Ch. 4. Working with Catholicism in Australia



Ch. 5. Catholicism at Arm’s Length in the United States



Ch. 6. Provincializing Catholicism in Canada



Ch. 7. Catholic Standing in the Latter Half of the 20th Century



Ch. 8. Realigning Catholicism and Protestantism in the United States



Ch. 9. The Limits of Pan-Christian Coalitions in Australia and Canada



Ch. 10. The Catholic Past as Prologue? The Future of Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Minority Political Incorporation

Biography



Willie Gin received his doctorate in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an assistant professor at Xavier University of Louisiana. His main areas of research interest are in minority incorporation, American political development, and how current technology affects both racial and income inequality. He has recently published in journals such as Politics and Religion.