Sacramento and the Catholic Church: Shaping a Capital City

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Steven M Avella - Sacramento and the Catholic Church: Shaping a Capital City
Publisher: University of Nevada Press | 2008-08-22 | ISBN: 087417760X | PDF | 384 pages | 2.67 MB


This book examines the interplay between the city of Sacramento, California, and the Catholic Church from the city’s beginnings to the twenty-first century, to illustrate the sometimes hidden ways religious communities help form and sustain urban community.
“In this gracefully written, pioneering work in western urban/religious history, Steven M. Avella interweaves the parallel stories of the Roman Catholic Church and the city of Sacramento. Avella’s approach is genuinely pathbreaking, and I suspect that it would serve as a model for similar accounts of other western cities.” --Ferenc M. Szasz, author of Religion in the West
“In this heroically researched, vividly written study Steven Avella makes an important contribution to the history of California, the Far West, and American Urbanism.” --Kevin Starr, Professor of History at the University of Southern California, author of Americans and the California Dream series

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