Being Right

by Weaver, Mary Jo; Appleby, R. Scott

• ISBN13: 9780253329226
• ISBN10: 0253329221
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

" Being Right is a significant book and a good read for anyone seriously interested in contemporary American religion." -- Nova Religio"It 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." -- American Catholic Studies Newsletter" Being Right maps the mental universe of this internally diverse group and offers basic insight into how they see things... " -- The Reader's Review"Editors Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott Appleby and their collaborators immerse us in a roiling sea of contested assertion and testimony." -- First Things"An in-depth look at these groups, both as they see themselves and as they appear to trained scholars." -- David J. O'Brien, College of Holy Cross"Compliments must be given to Weaver and Appleby... who were able to recruit a distinguished, yet impassioned, group of essayists for this work." -- Journal of Church and StateWhether 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.

Author Biography

MARY JO WEAVER is Professor of Religious Studies and Women's Studies at Indiana University. Among her books are Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today and New Catholic Women. R. SCOTT APPLEBY is the Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His books include "Church and Age Unite!": The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism, and he has co-edited five volumes of the Fundamentalism Project with Martin E. Marty.

Table of Contents

Preface: Working on Being Right	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: Who Are the Conservative Catholics?	1	(16)
Mary Jo Weaver
PART I: CONTEXTS
Interpreting the Council: Catholic Attitudes toward Vatican II	17	(20)
Joseph A. Komonchak
The Triumph of Americanism: Common Ground for U.S. Catholics in the Twentieth Century	37	(26)
R. Scott Appleby
The Loss of Theological Unity: Pluralism, Thomism, and Catholic Morality	63	(25)
Benedict M. Ashley
``A Pox on Both Your Houses'': A View of Catholic Conservative-Liberal Polarities from the Hispanic Margin	88	(19)
Allen Figueroa Deck
PART II: INSIDER PERSPECTIVES
Catholics United for the Faith: Dissent and the Laity	107	(31)
James A. Sullivan
The Neoconservative Difference: A Proposal for the Renewal of Church and Society	138	(25)
George Weigel
Women for Faith and Family: Catholic Women Affirming Catholic Teaching	163	(23)
Helen Hull Hitchcock
The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars: Bowing Out of the New Class	186	(27)
James Hitchcock
PART III: OUTSIDER PERSPECTIVES
The Marian Revival in American Catholicism: Focal Points and Features of the New Marian Enthusiasm	213	(28)
Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz
``We Are What You Were'': Roman Catholic Traditionalism in America	241	(29)
William D. Dinges
Life Battles: The Rise of Catholic Militancy within the American Pro-Life Movement	270	(30)
Michael W. Cuneo
Self-Consciously Countercultural: Alternative Catholic Colleges	300	(25)
Mary Jo Weaver
Epilogue: What Difference Do They Make?	325	(12)
R. Scott Appleby
Appendix: Conservative Catholic Periodicals	337	(8)
John H. Haas
Contributors	345	(1)
Index	346