Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement

Centenary Essays

By: William Thorn (Editor), Phil Runkel (Editor), Susan Mountin (Editor)

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Acknowledgements	p. 6
Preface	p. 13
Introduction: Still Provoking Us after All These Years: Dorothy Day of and outside Her Time	p. 14
Contemporary Students and Dorothy Day	p. 28
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Archives	p. 34
Angeli Tui Sancti Habitent En Ea, Qui Nos in Pace Custodiant	p. 37
The Catholic Worker and History	p. 40
The Significance of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement in American Catholicism	p. 41
Roots of the Catholic Worker Movement: Saints and Philosophers Who Influenced Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin	p. 59
The Catholic Worker and the Catholic Church	p. 78
Blowing the Dynamite of the Church: Catholic Radicalism from a Catholic Radicalist Perspective	p. 79
Diversity, Plurality and Ambiguity: Anarchism in the Catholic Worker Movement	p. 95
What's Catholic about the Catholic Worker Movement? Then and Now	p. 128
Dorothy Day, Rebel Catholic: Living in a State of Permanent Dissatisfaction with the Church	p. 144
The Catholic Worker Movement: toward a Theology of Liberation for First World Disciples	p. 150
Roll Away the Stone	p. 166
The Nonviolence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker	p. 168
Beyond the Ballot Box: the Catholic Worker Movement and Nonviolent Direct Action	p. 169
American Myth and the Gospel: Manifest Destiny and Dorothy Day's Nonviolence	p. 184
The Anti-War Politics of Christ	p. 201
Dorothy Day's Political and Social Thought	p. 204
Radical Orthodoxy: Dorothy Day's Challenge to Liberal America	p. 205
The Way of Lovedorothy Day and the American Right	p. 222
A Cultural Context for Understanding Dorothy Day's Social and Political Thought	p. 234
Mass Production	p. 254
Work and the Economy	p. 256
Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker, and the Labor Movement	p. 257
John Cort and Catholic Social Action since the New Deal	p. 264
Dorothy Day and the Transformation of Work: Lessons for Labor	p. 274
Peter Maurin, the Distributists and the Nature of Work	p. 298
Into Their Labors: Work, Technology, and the Sacramentalism of Dorothy Day	p. 306
Wildcat Musings: (A Poem in Solidarity with the Workers of the World & in Liquidarity with the Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Streams, Clouds, and Rain à)	p. 317
Dorothy Day's Writing and Rhetoric	p. 322
The Radical's Paradox: a Reflection on Dorothy Day's ""legendary"" Resistance to Canonization	p. 323
The Last Word Is Love: Activism, Spirituality, and Writing in the Life of Dorothy Day	p. 336
Well Paid Slaves	p. 347
Dorothy Day's Spirituality	p. 350
Identity, Community, and Crisis: the Conversion Narratives of Dorothy Day	p. 351
Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton: Overview of a Work in Progress	p. 363
Dorothy Day: Citizen of the Kingdom	p. 370
Proverb	p. 382
Peter Maurin	p. 384
Peter Maurin's Ideal of Farming Communes	p. 385
Why Peter Maurin Matters	p. 399
Down on the Farm and Up to Heaven: Catholic Worker Farm Communes and the Spiritual Virtues of Farming	p. 406
Dorothy Day's View of Peter Maurin	p. 418
The Hundred-Foot Fiberglass Hiawatha	p. 431
Ammon Hennacy	p. 434
An Anarchist Joins the Catholic Church: Why Ammon Hennacy Became a Catholic	p. 435
Catholic Worker Pacifism, 1933-1945	p. 444
The Way of Love: Pacifism and the Catholic Worker Movement, 1933-1939	p. 445
Dorothy Day and the Mystical Body of Christ in the Second World War	p. 457
We Are Still Pacifists: Dorothy Day's Pacifism during World War II	p. 465
An Uneasy Community: Catholics in Civilian Public Service during World War II	p. 474
Cultural Exchange	p. 481
Ecumenical Perspectives	p. 484
The Shakers and the Program and Practice of the Catholic Worker	p. 485
The Catholic Worker, the Jews, and the Future of Ecumenical Religiosity	p. 494
Protestant Responses to Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker	p. 515
The Catholic Worker and Socially Engaged Buddhism: a Dialogue	p. 531
Where Are the Songs of Spring?: (For Allen Ginsberg)	p. 550
Personal Narratives	p. 554
Dorothy Day Stories	p. 555
Threads of Life: Telling the Story	p. 559
A Long Loneliness: Metaphors of Conversion within the Catholic Worker Movement	p. 562
Dorothy Day: Saint and Troublemaker	p. 576
The Lazarus Dream Forgiven: (For Todd Duncan)	p. 588
Bibliography	p. 589
Authors	p. 611
Essays Published Elsewhere	p. 613
Index	p. 614
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