October 20, 2006

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The Truth about Conservative ChristiansWhat They Think and What They BelieveAndrew M. Greeley and Michael HoutUniversity of Chicago Press, $22.50, 216 pp.

E. J. Dionne Jr.

The thesis of the book, bluntly, is that the basic human religious needs and the basic religious functions have not changed very notably since the ice age,” writes Andrew M. Greeley. The changes that have occurred “make religious questions more critical rather than less critical in the contemporary world....There is no reason to think that enthusiastic religious c (...)


 

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E. J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist, professor of government at Georgetown University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right (Princeton University Press).

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