Dissertation Information for Maura Jane Farrelly NAME: - Maura Jane Farrelly
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (2002)
ADVISORS: - Michael A. Bellesiles
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - John T. Juricek - E Brooks Holifield
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Papist patriots: Catholic identity and revolutionary ideology in Maryland
Abstract: This dissertation asserts that the decision of Maryland's Catholics to become patriots in the 1770s was inextricably linked to their experiences as Catholics in Maryland throughout the eighteenth century. Other historians have charted the extent to which religious experience "prepared provincial minds" to accept the ideology of the American Revolution. Until now, however, this inquiry has been applied only to the collective experiences of evangelical Protestants.
This dissertation examines how and why Maryland's Catholics maintained their religious identity throughout the eighteenth century--a time in the colony's history when a paucity of priests, combined with a series of locally drafted and passed anti-Catholic laws, made it decidedly inconvenient to remain Catholic. The dissertation argues that in Maryland, the collective "memory" of a religious toleration that was lost to the colony's Catholics after the Glorious Revolution in England not only sustained the community throughout the eighteenth century, it also prepared the minds of Maryland's "papists" to accept an ideology that stressed both the constitutional autonomy of the colonies vis-Ã -vis England and the corruption to which all constitutions were thought to be vulnerable. By the 1770s, the dissertation asserts, Catholics in Maryland were, in many respects, the Americans most prepared to accept the political, cultural, and psychological implications of a formal break from England.
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