Andrew Greeley has been writing on the "Catholic imagination" since the 1970s, but this motif was also implicit in his earlier works on the value of Catholic schools, the centrality of parish life, and the persistence of ethnicity as a source of personal and communal identity. His sociological work, his novels, and his essays all feature a conviction that Catholic "difference (...)
May 05, 2000
Books
The Catholic Imagination
The Catholic ImaginationAndrew M. GreeleyUniversity of California Press, $24.95,198 pp.
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