The Changing Face of American Catholic Nationalism
Scholarly attention to how religious ideas, institutions and actors affect the legitimation or delegitimation of modern capitalism has intensified in recent years, fueled in part by a renewal of debate within religious traditions about the moral legitimacy of capitalism. This article argues that, co...
| Published in: | Sociological analysis |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1992
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Sociological analysis
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| Summary: | Scholarly attention to how religious ideas, institutions and actors affect the legitimation or delegitimation of modern capitalism has intensified in recent years, fueled in part by a renewal of debate within religious traditions about the moral legitimacy of capitalism. This article argues that, contrary to some conservative fears and radical hopes, the United States Catholic Church is not engaged in a process of delegitimating the capitalist order. While the mainstream of the Church at all levels is more socially engaged than ever before, what is impressive are the limits beyond which that activism does not travel. Those boundaries are defined by an ideological construct, both political-economic and theological in nature, that I describe as United States Catholic Nationalism. This article examines the political and ecclesiastic significance of this ideology that, despite huge changes in world Catholicism and world capitalism, helps maintain the United States Catholic Church as a cultural support for the capitalist system. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711702 |