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American Catholics, American Culture : Tradition and Resistance

Bottum, J(Contributions by)Buckley, Gail(Contributions by)Callahan, Daniel(Contributions by)Dillon, Michele(Contributions by)Doerflinger, Richard M.(Contributions by)Donohue, William(Contributions by)Doyle, Brian(Contributions by)Royal, Robert(Other primary creator)Steinfels, Peter(Other primary creator)Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien(Edited by)
Part of the American Catholics in the Public Square series
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Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policy makers and politicians address the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church in the United States. Volume 2, American Catholics, American Culture: Tradition and Resistance, is introduced by Peter Steinfels and Robert Royal.

Part One, 'Against the Grain,' explores the philosophical and practical differences between Catholicism and American culture on issues in sexuality, marriage, abortion, stem cell research, women's rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

The essays attempt to mediate the divide between Catholicism's communal and personalist view of the human person and the American preference for autonomy and pluralism.

Part Two, 'Popular Culture & Literature,' confronts the role and interaction of the Church in popular culture and explores the identity of the 'Catholic' writer on the literary page and in the media.

Part Three, 'Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice?' endeavors to define what anti-Catholicism is, where it is found in North American culture, what it means for maintaining group identity, and how it can be interpreted as an American or religious phenomenon.

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Sheed & Ward,U.S.
0742531600 / 9780742531604
Hardback
12/03/2004
United States
224 pages
163 x 233 mm, 399 grams