Even before opening Sense of the Faithful, Jerome P. Baggett’s timely sociological examination of how American Catholics from six parishes in the San Francisco Bay Area understand and practice their faith, the reader is offered a visual sense of a church in flux. In a cover photo of the interior of an Upper East Side church in Manhattan, photographer Jeff Spielman’s camera (...)
March 27, 2009
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Sense of the FaithfulHow American Catholics Live Their FaithJerome P. Baggett Oxford University Press, $29.95, 285 pp.
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