Separatism and Subculture

Download or read book Separatism and Subculture written by Paula M. Kane and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kane explores the role of religious identity in Boston in the years 1900-1920, arguing that Catholicism was a central integrating force among different class and ethnic groups. She traces the effect of changing class status on religious identity and solidarity, and she delineates the social and cultural meaning of Catholicism in a city where Yankee Protestant nativism persisted even as its hegemony was in decline.