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Catholics and American culture : Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame football team / Mark S. Massa. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Crossroad Pub. Company, (c)1999.Description: x, 278 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780824515379
  • 9780824519551
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BX1406.M414.C384 1999
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Contents:
Young man Merton : Thomas Merton and the postwar "religious revival" -- Catholicism as a cultural system : Joe McCarthy, Clifford Geertz, and the "conspiracy so immense" -- "Life is worth living" : Fulton J. Sheen and the paradoxes of Catholic "arrival" -- "The downward path" : Dorothy Day, anti-structure, and the Catholic Worker movement -- A Catholic for President? : JFK, Peter Berger, and the "secular" theology of the Houston speech, 1960 -- "Into uncertain life" : the first Sunday of Advent 1964 -- "To be beautiful, human, and Christian" : the IHM nuns and the routinization of charisma -- Thomism and the t-formation in 1966 : Ethnicity, American Catholic higher education, and the Notre Dame football team -- Conclusion : Magnalia Christi Americana.
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Introduction : "Oh, the irony of it all" -- Boundary maintenance : Leonard Feeney, the Boston heresy case, and the postwar culture -- Young man Merton : Thomas Merton and the postwar "religious revival" -- Catholicism as a cultural system : Joe McCarthy, Clifford Geertz, and the "conspiracy so immense" -- "Life is worth living" : Fulton J. Sheen and the paradoxes of Catholic "arrival" -- "The downward path" : Dorothy Day, anti-structure, and the Catholic Worker movement -- A Catholic for President? : JFK, Peter Berger, and the "secular" theology of the Houston speech, 1960 -- "Into uncertain life" : the first Sunday of Advent 1964 -- "To be beautiful, human, and Christian" : the IHM nuns and the routinization of charisma -- Thomism and the t-formation in 1966 : Ethnicity, American Catholic higher education, and the Notre Dame football team -- Conclusion : Magnalia Christi Americana.

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