About the Author

Paula M. Kane is associate professor of religious studies and the Marous Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Reviews

[A] thorough and subtly argued book.
("Journal of Social History")

A richly contextualized and very readable analysis of the different voices in which Boston Catholics spoke during the Progressive Era.
("Choice")

Kane has provided one of the best studies of the defining cultural struggle Catholics have endured on two fronts in twentieth-century America.
(James T. Fisher, Yale University)

Kane's focus is the harbinger of a new look on the Catholic community, one that will require the rewriting of much of Catholic history in Boston and elsewhere.
("American Historical Review")

The book is a model for understanding the complex interdependence of religion, politics and society in other communities.
("Christian Century")

�A� thorough and subtly argued book.
("Journal of Social History")