Natalia Imperatori-Lee draws upon a variety of sources to develop an ecclesiology that is shaped by narratives as much as dogmatic theology.
Books
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Review: The feuding fathers of the Democratic Party
Both sons of New York, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin Roosevelt were close political allies. Until the national Democratic convention of 1932.
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James K. A. Smith’s Theological Journey
James K. A. Smith has spent much of his energy thinking about alternative communities and the politics of Jesus—about what role Christians should play in the American political project.
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Proud and impoverished in the ‘Heartland’: an interview with Sarah Smarsh
Heartland is a chronicle of lives and places; a story of the women and men on the lower end of the working class in rural Kansas who nurtured, challenged and continue to inform Sarah Smarsh’s story.
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Learning to be Quiet with Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola speaks with America executive editor Kerry Weber about his latest book “Quiet” and what he hopes children will learn from his work.
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Review: The famous Weegee, up close and personal
“People who have never heard of Weegee can describe him,” Bonanos writes, because he created Hollywood’s idea of the newspaper photographer.”
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A new academic opus from a once-familiar name: Foucault
The major foci of Foucault’s work were the histories of madness, the social sciences, penitentiaries and sexuality.
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Tomie dePaola’s books help us find the sacred in stories of service and stillness
Many of dePaola’s most delightful characters are those who persevere in the worthy effort to simply be themselves.
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Review: Negotiating tensions in a postsecular world
The Catholic Church needs to recognize that moved from a secular public sphere—marked by separate and specialized spheres of economy, science, faith and so forth that manage their own concerns in an insular way—to a postsecular public sphere, in which a multiplicity of voices and expertise are welcome to weigh in on an issue.
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Review: Chicago’s lay Catholics and civil rights
Karen J. Johnson focuses on the minority of white Catholics who felt that racial equality was a moral and religious, not merely political, issue.