Tag: What We’re Reading
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“What We’re Reading”
I pretty much remember only one thing from undergrad sociology: the professor’s statement that both an urban slum and a suburban country club are examples of ghettos. – Alan Hommerding
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“What We’re Reading”
In the midst of the birth of a new Mass setting, an interdiocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, and heaven-knows-what-else, I have managed to read a number of books.
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“What We’re Reading”
My reading tastes fluctuate between church and non-church things. Sometimes I’m looking for links between them.
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“What We’re Reading”
When I first thought about what I have been reading lately, what came to mind is the undergraduate essays and papers I have been plowing through—more on them at another time.
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“What We’re Reading”
As has been the case in most summers, my list of books to read was more ambitious than realistic.
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Summer “What We’ve Been Reading” Wednesday
One upshot to studying in Europe is that the academic year does not begin until about mid-October and so my time for summer reading is vastly extended – so much so that it is also fall reading. Here are some titles on my list.
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
My summer reading is rather eclectic for 2010. I am finishing three non fiction books: Eamon Duffy’s re-reading of the historical record of the reign of “Bloody Mary: Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor. I have also begun James P. McCartin’s Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics.
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
The largest pile of books has to do with my current (almost completed) research project. Tentatively entitled Lifting a Veil on Liturgy’s Past: Gender, History, and the Making of Liturgical Tradition, the book is an inquiry into the writing of liturgical history: what we think we know, what we can know, and what, at this…
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday II
August 15 is my birthday. When people ask why I became Catholic I reply “Because Jesus still can’t refuse his mother anything.”