Catholic Culture in the USA: In and Out of Church

by John Portmann

Book Overview

This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity, to hold onto some essential portions of religious experience in an increasingly secular world.
Catholic Culture in the USA articulates what is perhaps only implicit in other scholarship with regard to how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441188924
• ISBN13: 9781441188922
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"