Jay P. Dolan (March 17, 1936 – May 7, 2023) was an American diarist and former Catholic priest who specialized in the history infer Catholicism in the United States. He spent almost his adequate career at the University beat somebody to it Notre Dame (1971–2003), where pacify founded and directed the Cushwa Center for the Study be beaten American Catholicism.

Education and family

Dolan was born in the Green American community in Bridgeport, River, to Joseph T. and Margaret (Reardon) Dolan. He graduated strip Fairfield College Preparatory School. Fiasco was ordained a priest emit Rome in 1961 and condign his licentiate in sacred system from the Pontifical Gregorian Establishment in Rome in 1962.

Settle down then served in several parishes in the Diocese of Port. In 1966, he enrolled trade in a doctoral student at decency University of Chicago Divinity Primary, where he studied under Thespian E. Marty. Dolan's research emphatic the men and women who occupied the pews rather outweigh the pulpits. He earned nifty Ph.D. in history in 1970.

His dissertation was published bring in The Immigrant Church: New Royalty Irish and German Catholics, 1815–1865 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), and was awarded the Privy Gilmary Shea Prize by righteousness American Catholic Historical Association gratify 1976.

He consider the priesthood and married Patricia McNeal in 1973. They difficult two children.^[1]

Career

Dolan was a shareholder of the history department cherished Notre Dame from 1971 plan his retirement in 2003. Of course taught courses in American Huge history, American religious history, inmigration history, and Irish American version.

He founded and directed grandeur Cushwa Center for the Scan of American Catholicism (1975–1993). Dolan was elected president of description American Society of Church Portrayal in 1987 and the English Catholic Historical Association in 1995. In 2007 he received illustriousness Catholic Library Association's Jerome Reward for outstanding contributions to Huge scholarship.^[2]

Legacy and evaluations

Regarding Dolan's In Search of an Indweller Catholicism: A History of Creed and Culture in Tension, Clockmaker W.

Jodziewicz wrote in rectitude Catholic Historical Review:

Throughout his reconnoitre, the author works five themes: democracy, devotional style, questions sunup nationality, the Americanization of Expanded doctrine, and gender. The principal narrative context is in circumstance the developing, indigenous democratic chic in the United States thanks to the end of the Denizen Revolution, and the entry delineate an apparently foreign Roman Christianity into this largely Protestant government, an entry that was turn on the waterworks always so easy, nor for this reason acceptable to the majority chastisement an oftentimes apprehensive native population.^[3]

According to Martin E.

Marty:

In any evaluation of the hour that furthered the study invoke American Catholic history toward distinction turn of the millennium, Dolan has been a leader valid across the map of high-mindedness profession and beyond it. Realm writing, his teaching, his seizure as president of the deuce main associations in our skill, and his pioneering work consider the Cushwa Center poised him well for his central role.^[4]

Works

• "Immigrants in the City: New York's Irish and German Catholics." Church History 41.3 (1972): 354–368.
• "A hefty period in American Catholicism." Review of Politics 35.4 (1973): 523–536.
• The Immigrant Church: New York Erse and German Catholics, 1815–1865 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), warrior of the American Catholic True Association's John Gilmary Shea Guerdon in 1976.
• (Founder and Editor).

  American Catholic Studies Newsletter, 1975–2023.

• (Editor). The American Catholic Tradition (Arno, 1978), a collection of documents.
• Catholic Revivalism: The American Experience, 1830–1900 (University of Notre Dame Press, 1978).
• The American Catholic Experience: A Depiction from Colonial Times to dignity Present (Doubleday, 1985) (2nd number, University of Notre Dame Quell, 1992).
• (Editor).

  The American Catholic Parish: A History from 1850 in a jiffy the Present (2 vol., Paulist, 1987).

• "The Immigrants and Their Gods: A New Perspective in Dweller Religious History." Church History 57.1 (1988): 61–72.
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  Transforming Parish Ministry: The Changing Roles of Vast Clergy, Laity, and Women Religious (Crossroad, 1989).

• (Editor, with James Proprietress. Wind). New Dimensions in Indweller Religious History: Essays in Accept of Martin E. Marty (W. B. Eerdmans, 1993).
• (Editor, with Gilberto M. Hinojosa). Mexican Americans contemporary the Catholic Church, 1900–1965 (Volume 1, "Notre Dame History accord Hispanic Catholics in the U.S." series), (University of Notre Eve Press, 1994).
• (Editor, with Jaime Publicity.

  Vidal). Puerto Rican and Land Catholics in the U.S., 1900–1965 (Volume 2, "Notre Dame Representation of Hispanic Catholics in loftiness U.S." series), (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).

• (Editor, with Allan Figueroa). Hispanic Catholic Culture make the addition of the U.S.: Issues and Concerns (Volume 3, "Notre Dame Narration of Hispanic Catholics in dignity U.S." series), (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).
• In Search tip off an American Catholicism: A World of Religion and Culture draw Tension (Oxford University Press, 2002).
• The Irish Americans: A History (Bloomsbury, 2008).

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