Paula Kane

Paula Kane
University of Pittsburgh | Pitt · Religious Studies

Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University

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Introduction
John and Lucine O'Brien Chair of Catholic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Kane researches and teaches American history, History of Religion and Catholic Studies. Recent publications include “St. Homobonus Shepherds the CEOs," on wealthy Catholics and their political ideologies, in The Business Turn in American Religious History (Oxford University, 2017.) Her latest book is Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America, about a stigmatic nun.
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August 1990 - present
University of Pittsburgh
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  • Chair

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Publications (45)
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In the Winter 2010 issue of "Southern Cultures" Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too); southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears--so they can pick blackberries; Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling; the experts redraw the boundaries of North and South; The Home of the Doubl...
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This chapter charts laywomen’s experiences within and contributions to Roman Catholicism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, with particular focus on their relationship with and response to the broader women’s rights movement and modern feminism. It addresses the roles that women have played in building up the chur...
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Review by Paula M. Kane Review by Paula M. Kane The current entry in Wikipedia for the College of Notre Dame of Maryland indicates a total of 563 full-time undergraduate students and a greater than 60% acceptance rate. Its recent enrollment increases come from part-time and graduate students which bring the total enrollment to 2,233, similar to tha...
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Wealthy American Catholics have created foundations, institutes, and research centers to endorse and defend neoliberal capitalism. Since the 1980s, a network of rich Catholics have supported their class privilege by defending strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade on the economic front, and by favoring antiabortion and anti-ga...
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This chapter examines the scientific community's impact on the American understanding of stigmatization in the early twentieth century. It analyzes and contrasts the involvements of the three physicians central to Margaret Reilly's experience: Thomas Gallen, Thomas McParlan, and James J. Walsh. Margaret fell in love with Gallen, involving her in a...
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The Occupy movements that seized Americans' hearts and minds during 2011 relied on some tactics already familiar to the angered Catholics who had staged parish occupations in the previous eight years to prevent the closure of their parishes by order of their bishops. John Seitz provides a fine, compact ethnographic study of the recent and current s...
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The paper treats the American response to the stigmatic Therese Neumann through examination of eyewitness accounts published by American visitors to her village in Bavaria. Therese’s mystical symptoms expressed themselves across four decades, and yet interpretations of her significance expressed national differences, as well as internal tensions wi...
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I was disappointed as a graduate student in American Studies when I discovered Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement that "There is properly no history, only biography." This claim did not seem true to me then, or now. In my own undergraduate courses, therefore, I use biography sparingly, because I find that students have been seduced already by that app...
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It is hard to ask the question "Were the Popes against the Jews?," especially after seeing the inspiring film, "Of Gods and Men" (2010). The story is based upon actual events in the lives of eight French Cistercian Trappist monks in Algeria in the 1990s who decided to risk capture at the hands of extremist Muslims during that nation's civil war, ra...
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1. Randall Balmer, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, 4th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). The closest Catholic equivalent is Charles R. Morris, American Catholic (New York: Times Books/Random House, 1997). 2. David J. O'Brien and Thomas A. Shannon, Renewing the Earth: Catholic Documents on Justice, Peace and Liberation (New York: Doubled...
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The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council. By AndrewGreeley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 226 pp. $24.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. - Volume 74 Issue 3 - Paula Kane
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A teenage Catholic girl lies immobilized in her bed in Worcester, Massachusetts, her dark hair gathered in pink satin ribbons, her lacy nightgown spread neatly around her. The pleasing effect of a damsel in a pre-Raphaelite painting is broken by the sight of a tracheotomy tube in her neck attached to a ventilator, and a feeding tube in her stomach....
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Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power. By DillonMichele. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 289 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. - Volume 70 Issue 1 - Paula M. Kane
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THis is an anthology of unpublished articles and materials that illustrate the gendering of Catholic men and women from the 19th century to the present, using archival sources.
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Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television. By LynchChristopher Owen. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xii + 204 pp. $24.95 cloth. - Volume 68 Issue 3 - Paula Kane
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Reviews in American History - Volume 26, Number 2, June 1998
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Reviews in American History 23.2 (1995) 212-218 Jenny Franchot. Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xxvii 500 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $55.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). Jenny Franchot has produced a dazzling book about a topic that has been long overdue for a...
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Modern Catholicism: Vatican II and After. Edited by HastingsAdrian. New- York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvii + 473 pp. $29.95. - Volume 63 Issue 1 - Paula M. Kane
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Henry Cardinal Manning wrote in 1863 that he wanted English Catholics to be “downright, masculine, and decided Catholics—more Roman than Rome, and more ultramontane than the Pope himself.” Given this uncompromising call for militant, masculine Roman Catholicism in Protestant Victorian England, frequently cited by scholars, it may seem surprising th...
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Immigrants and Their Church. By LiptakDolores, R.S.M. Makers of the Catholic Community. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. xviii + 221 pp. - Volume 59 Issue 4 - Paula M. Kane
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American Catholic Women: A Historical Explanation. Edited by KennellyKaren, C.S.J. Makers of the Catholic Community. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. xx + 231 pp. - Volume 59 Issue 4 - Paula M. Kane
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True Daughters: Monastic Identity and American Benedictine Women's History. By SuteraJudith, AtchisonO.S.B., Kansas: Mount St. Scholastica, 1987. ii + 165 pp. $6.96. - Volume 59 Issue 2 - Paula M. Kane
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Studdert-KennedyGerald, Dog Collar Democracy: The Industrial Christian Fellowship, 1919–1929. London: Macmillan Press, 1982. 228 pp. - Volume 31 - Paula Kane
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1987. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 318-353). Microfiche. s

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