Sheed & Ward
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978-0-7425-3160-4 • Hardback • March 2004 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
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Margaret OOBrien Steinfels, co-director of American Catholics in the Public Square project, was the editor of Commonweal from 1988 to 2002.
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Part 3 Introduction
Part 4 Against the Grain
Chapter 5 Catholics in America: Antipathy and Assimilation
Chapter 6 Abortion, Sexuality, and Catholicism's Public Presence
Chapter 7 The Church's Prophetic Response: Connecting Sexuality, Marriage, Family, and Children: A Response
Chapter 8 The Complexities and Ambiguities of the "Prophetic Dimension": A Response
Chapter 9 The Pro-Life Message and Catholic Social Teaching: Problems of Reception
Chapter 10 The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Pro-Life Agenda: A Response
Chapter 11 The Abortion Debate: Good for the Church and Good for American Society
Chapter 12 Killing Yourself: Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon
Part 13 Part II: Popular Culture and Literature
Chapter 14 Catholicism as American Popular Culture
Chapter 15 "As If in Prayer": A Response to "Catholicism as American Popular Culture"
Chapter 16 The Last Catholic Writer in America?
Chapter 17 Being a Writer, Being a Catholic: Sometimes the Twain Can Meet
Chapter 18 The Press and the Church's Social Teaching: Friends or Foes?
Chapter 19 Assertions, Not Reasons: A Response
Part 20 Part III: Anti-Catholicism in the United States: The VIew from History
Chapter 21 An Ugly Little Secret Revisited: A Pretest on Anti-Catholicism in America
Chapter 22 Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice? Yes
Chapter 23 Voices from the Field
Part 24 About the Contributors
This volume of essays so exemplifies civil yet strenuous exchange on volatile topics in contemporary Catholicism that it exceeds a search for common Catholic ground and becomes instead that much-praised, seldom-found reality: a community of discourse... I recommend the volume to anyone seeking a constructive path in divisive times, to parish clergy, to women and men religious, to all interested in U.S. civic life, and to faculty and students doing courses in theology, American history, cultural studies, or Catholic studies.
— America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture
This volume is a valuable contribution to what it calls a 'vigorous and articulated religious participation in public affairs' and should be in any library keeping abreast of current issues.
— Library Journal