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Education and Transformation: Marianist Ministries in America Since 1849 situates the history of the Marianist brothers in religious culture, americanization and modernization, ethnicity and race issues, spirituality, and modernization of schools, colleges, and universities. The book underscores the significance of the specific character of the Society of Mary: a congregation of brothers (the vast majority) and priests who together have been committed to the ideal of egalitarianism from the origins in Bordeaux in 1817 to contemporary times. It is framed by a prologue on William Joseph Chaminade, the Founder of the Marianist Family, and by the French roots of the Marianists during the Napoleonic era, and an epilogue on contemporary convergences, past and present.

Commissioned by the Marianist Conference, the book coincides with the anniversary of the first 150 years of the Society of Mary in America (1849-1999).

Christopher J. Kauffman is the distinguished Catholic Daughters of the Americas’ chair in Church history at The Catholic University of America and the author of several books. He is the editor of U.S. Catholic Historian and the award-winning six-volume history of the American Catholic community.

This hardcover book has 366 pages and is published by Crossroad Publishing Company

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