The Making of American Catholicism Jo Smith associate professor of technology &

associate professor of technology & culture at Eastern Michigan University's School of Technology Studies

He lashed out at law enforcement by dealing drugs

The book illustrates how the authors of the Pentateuch advanced their political and religious agenda by attributing deeds of historical figures like Jeroboam and David to ancient allegorical characters like Abraham and Jacob

In a series of fascinating chapters

The Making of American Catholicism Jo Smith associate professor of technology &Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States Most histories of American Catholicism take a national focus, leading to a homogenization of American Catholicism that misses much of the local complexity that has marked how Catholicism developed differently in different parts of the country. Such histories often treat