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Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics
by McCartin, James P. | HC | VeryGood
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Title
- Prayers of the Faithful
- Weight
- 1 lbs
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- ISBN
- 9780674049130
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674049136
ISBN-13
9780674049130
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78658931
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Prayers of the Faithful : the Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Prayerbooks / Christian, Christian Church / History, Christianity / Catholic, Christian Life / Prayer
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-046280
Dewey Edition
22
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McCartin offers an important new perspective on the history of prayer. For American Catholics, as for all religious people, prayers were not idle words sent off into an uncomprehending universe. For them, prayer was action, and it had real effects. They were shapers of their own spiritual destiny., In James McCartin's hands, the habits of prayer become a profound way to examine the shifting ecclesial and political currents of American Catholicism since the Civil War. While well aware of the transnational dimensions of his story, McCartin nonetheless offers a particularly insightful meditation on the Americanness of the spiritual life, the insistent tension between hierarchic authority and individual expression., McCartin's book provides a good overview and will appeal to readers interested in contemporary church movements and history., Over the course of the past several decades, many Catholics have rejected the strict spiritual hierarchy that was, for centuries, the foundation of the organized church. This dramatic shift in the practice of the Catholic religion has resulted in the evolution of prayer itself into an independent-centered activity incorporated into daily routines rather than a publicly performed and formalized ritual., Prayers of the Faithful is the only book that successfully tracks and explains 'change over time' in American Catholic self-understanding as expressed through the lens of prayer. It should be read by anyone who wants to understand the American Catholic soul in the twenty-first century.
Dewey Decimal
248.3/209730904
Synopsis
A hundred years ago Catholic believers young and old, rich and poor, would fill churches on holy days, drawn together in prayer and in the conviction that they, the laypeople, needed the clergy and patron saints to mediate between them and their God. Today a Catholic believer in America is as likely as not to find God for herself. This book traces dramatic changes in the practice of faith among American Catholics through evolving ideas about prayer. Where so many have seen the movement of American Catholics away from traditional devotional practices as a symptom of encroaching secularism, author James P. McCartin shows how the changing practice of prayer itself was the primary catalyst behind Catholics' growing sense of spiritual independence. Prayers of the Faithful reveals how, over the decades, Catholics' ways of praying underwent a significant shift alongside the larger transformations of American society and culture. The book documents the novel ways of praying that transcended the formal rites of earlier generations. Whether "praying in tongues" or working on behalf of social justice or participating in public protests as outpourings of prayer, lay Catholics consistently expanded their notions of praying. And in doing so, McCartin suggests, they reshaped and redefined American Catholicism. By examining the spiritual life of prayer over the twentieth century, this book thus opens up new ways of understanding Catholics, their church, and their place in American life.
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BX1406.3.M33 2010
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