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Article: Mining the depths of a complex identity.(American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church )(Book review)
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- December 22, 2007
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American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church William D' Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge and Mary L. Gautier (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007, 183pp) 978-0742552159, $24.95
FOUR OF THE MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE authors about American Catholicism come together in this book that not only probes the complex characteristics of its subjects but also provides historical context to understand the changes that have occurred in the last 18 years.
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This is the fourth book in a series of studies of American Catholics in which the authors describe how the major events of the past few years--the clergy ...