Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Tran. CSC, CSC, Paperback**

Name: Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Tran. CSC, CSC, Paperback**
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Crabgrass CatholicismHow Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America\nAuthor(s): Stephen M. Koeth\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226842202, 978-0226842202\nSynopsis\nHow suburbanization was a crucial catalyst for reforms in the Catholic Church.\n The 1960s in America were a time of revolt against the stifling conformism embodied in the sprawling, uniform suburbs of the 1950s. Typically, the reforms of the Catholic Churchs Second Vatican Council, which aimed to make the Church more modern and accessible, are seen as one result of that broader cultural liberalization. Yet in Crabgrass Catholicism, Stephen M. Koeth demonstrates that the liberalization of the Church was instead the product of the mass suburbanization that began some fifteen years earlier. Koeth argues that postwar suburbanization revolutionized the Catholic parish, the relationship between clergy and l.