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Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America

Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America

O'Toole, James M.

Hardcover

Series: Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Am

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0801442567
ISBN13: 9780801442568
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 4 2004
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

For generations, American Catholics... lived out their faith through countless unremarkable routines. Deep questions of theology usually meant little to them, but parishioners clung to deeply ingrained habits of devotion, both public and private. Particular devotions changed over time, waxing or waning in popularity, but the habits endured: going to mass on Sunday, saying prayers privately and teaching their children to do the same, filling their homes with crucifixes and other religious images, participating in special services, blending the church's calendar of feast and fast days with the secular cycles of work and citizenship, negotiating their conformity (or not) to the church's demands regarding sexual behavior and even diet.... It was religious practice, carried out in daily and weekly observance, that embodied their faith, more than any abstract set of dogmas.--from the Introduction

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