hardcover, by Philip F. Lawler — The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture, traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church as a cultural dynamo in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that has echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions have lost social influence in the face of rising secularization. The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became[...]
hardcover, by Milton Himmelfarb — Milton Himmelfarb, perhaps best known for his quip about American Jews - who live like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans - was the author of essays that were profound, provocative, and witty to boot. This important collection brings together the most memorable of those essays, ranging from social and political commentaries to historical and theological subjects. From Leo Strauss and[...]
hardcover, by Robert Royal — Secular humanists and other progressives have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years. But they keep running into a problem—those who were supposed to be liberated by secular gospel that God Is Dead aren’t buying it. Why not? Since the Greeks and Romans, as Robert Royal explains, religion has nurtured the development of the individual and of Western culture itself.[...]
