a history, 1918-1955 Wiest, Jean-Paul creator text xx Armonk, N.Y M.E. Sharpe 1988 9999 monographic und eng

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xxiii, 591 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our nation's religious experience. Jean-Paul Wiest Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America -- Missions -- China -- History -- 20th century.Maryknoll Sisters -- Missions -- China -- History -- 20th century.China -- Church history -- 20th century BV3415.2 .W44 1988   230822