IHC
Catholic Studies Research Focus Group Lecture
Jay Dolan
"Religion and Ethnicity: Ties that Bind, Ties that Burn"
Thursday, November
2 / 4 P.M. / FREE
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB
This presentation
will examine the relationship between religion and ethnicity by a comparative
analysis of the relationship of nineteenth century Germans and twentieth century
Latinos with Roman Catholicism in the United States.
Jay P. Dolan is professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He founded
the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and served as its director
for eighteen years. A well known historian of American religion, his best known
work is "The American Catholic Experience: A History From Colonial Times to
the Present." He also was the general editor for a three-volume study of "Hispanic
Catholics in the U.S."
This event is co-sponsored by the IHC Catholic Studies Research Focus Group and the Hispanic Churches in American Public Life Project.
