qBeing Right is a significant book and a good read for anyone seriously interested in contemporary American religion.q aNova Religio qIt will be very useful to historians, challenging to theologians and indispensable to anyone trying to make sense of the bewildering variety of Catholic presence in the contemporary United States.q aAmerican Catholic Studies Newsletter qBeing Right maps the mental universe of this internally diverse group and offers basic insight into how they see things... q aThe Readeras Review qEditors Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott Appleby and their collaborators immerse us in a roiling sea of contested assertion and testimony.q aFirst Things qAn in-depth look at these groups, both as they see themselves and as they appear to trained scholars.q aDavid J. OaBrien, College of Holy Cross qCompliments must be given to Weaver and Appleby... who were able to recruit a distinguished, yet impassioned, group of essayists for this work.q aJournal of Church and State Whether they focus their criticism on pro-choice rhetoric and artificial birth control or the removal of religious symbols from public squares, the Catholics profiled in this book agree that the contemporary church is in crisis.Media-famous groups such as Lambs for Christ, the Pro-Life Action League, and Operation Rescue are important actors on ... For example, in his essay on neoconservatives, George Weigel shows that the broad set of issues addressed by hisanbsp;...
Title | : | Being Right |
Author | : | Mary Jo Weaver, R. Scott Appleby |
Publisher | : | Indiana University Press - 1995 |
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