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Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites: Identity, Ethnicity, and Tradition in the Modern Church
Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites Identity Ethnicity and Tradition in the Modern Church Author:Darryl Victor Caterine This ethnographic and historical study of a present-day order of sisters leads to a wider analysis of conservatism in the American Roman Catholic church. The book suggests that the post-Vatican II church is more of a global church than a national one, and its constituents more the product of a polycentric world than an assemblage of "ethnic encl... more »aves" orbiting around an Anglo-Protestant center. Extant scholarly labels of "conservative" and liberal" Catholicism should thus be subjected to more careful scrutiny problematizing the political relationships between religious and cultural affiliations, if not abandoned altogether.« less