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Founding Father

John J. Wynne, S.J. and the Inculturation of American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

By: Michael F. Lombardo

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Founding Father

John J. Wynne, S.J. and the Inculturation of American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

By: Michael F. Lombardo

In Founding Father, Michael F. Lombardo provides the first critical biography of John J. Wynne, S.J. (1859-1948). One of the most prominent American Catholic intellectuals of the early twentieth century, Wynne was founding editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia (1907) and the Jesuit periodical America (1909), and served as vice-postulator for the canonization causes of the first American saints (the Jesuit Martyrs of North America) and Kateri Tekakwitha. Lombardo uses theological inculturation to explore the ways in which Wynne used his publications to negotiate American Catholic citizenship during the Progressive Era. He concludes that Wynne’s legacy was part of a flowering of early-twentieth century American Catholic intellectual thought that made him a key forerunner to the mid-century Catholic Revival.

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9004304525

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Imperial Mecca

Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj

By: Michael Christopher Low

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Imperial Mecca

Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj

By: Michael Christopher Low

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their Muslim subjects to radicalizing influences from anticolonial dissidents and pan-Islamic activists. European colonial empires’ newfound ability to set the terms of hajj travel not only affected the lives of millions of pilgrims but also dramatically challenged the Ottoman Empire, the world’s only remaining Muslim imperial power. Michael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Imperial Mecca recasts Ottoman Arabia as a distant, unstable semiautonomous frontier that Istanbul struggled to modernize and defend against the onslaught of colonial steamship mobility. As it turned out, steamships carried not just pilgrims, passports, and microbes, but the specter of legal imperialism and colonial intervention. Over the course of roughly a half century from the 1850s through World War I, British India’s fear of the hajj as a vector of anticolonial subversion gradually gave way to an increasingly sophisticated administrative, legal, and medical protectorate over the steamship hajj, threatening to eclipse the Ottoman state and Caliphate’s prized legitimizing claim as protector of Islam’s most holy places. Drawing on a wide range of Ottoman and British archival sources, this book sheds new light on the transimperial and global histories traversed along the pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Columbia University Press

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0231549091

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Hiking to Hell and Back

By: Michael Keane

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Hiking to Hell and Back

By: Michael Keane

Enclosed neatly between the covers of this book, more trials and tribulations, triumphs and turnabouts await the reader than you could shake a hiking staff at. Unlike other authors of famed books about legendary trails, Michael Keane actually completes his pilgrimages before writing a book-twice, in the case of El Camino de Santiago. The medieval Way of St. James crosses Europe to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to the cathedral tomb of St. James the Greater (apostle and patron of pilgrims and of Spain). Adelante! Por Dios y Santiago! Enjoy the journals of these journeys, physical and metaphysical, and without any bleeding or blistering on your part. If you wish to follow in the writer's footsteps, reading these pages may save you much needless physical suffering and psychic pain. If reading these pages causes you pain, you can enjoy the author's suffering more. You can't lose. Between his first and second Camino, the author completed circling the Earth on earth, hiking wherever great or grand suggested, from the Grand Canyon in a day to the Great Wall of China for a day to the Great White Way in a day (Bronx/Yonks line to Battery), and including all of Ireland, of course. Next he backpacked across America, Florida to Canada, up the murderously, monstrously mountainous Appalachian Trail, before publishing a book, A Voice in the Wilderness. On the wildest journey of all, he traveled from agnostic to gnostic to knowing Him who looked for him to look for Him in Spain...

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