To an outside observer, the religious culture of the United States might seem astonishing. For German sociologist Michael Zoller, American Catholicism is more than that; it is a contradiction in terms. With its historical consciousness, emphasis on institutionalized structures, and combination of skepticism and assurance of grace, Catholicism seems to embody the very opposite of the American cultural principle. Zoller here reexamines widely held notions about secularization and the role of religion in civil society to show how Catholicism was integrated into the Protestant, egalitarian, and...
To an outside observer, the religious culture of the United States might seem astonishing. For German sociologist Michael Zoller, American Catholicism...
