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  LIMEX Course 7,
Faith and Culture

LIMEX Curriculum Bibliography

Required Texts:

Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Updated ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996. ISBN# 0520205685.

Official Church Documents:


John Paul II. On Human Work (Laborum Exercens). Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1981. Publication # 825-8. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0217/_INDEX.HTM.

---. On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (Centesimus Annum). Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1991. Publication # 436-8. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0214/_INDEX.HTM. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 6, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

---. On the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate (Redemptoris Missio). Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1990. Publication # 424-4. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0219/_INDEX.HTM.

John XXIII. Peace on Earth (Pacem in Terris). Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1963. Publication # 5-602. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem_en.html.

The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes). Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents. Vols. 1 and 2. Ed. Austin Flannery, O.P. Northport, NY: Costello, 1998. ISBN # 0918344395 and 0918344166. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_cons_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 1, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

Paul VI. On Evangelization in the Modern World (Evangelii Nuntiandi). Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1975. Publication # 129-6. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19751208_evangelii-nuntiandi_en.html.

---. On the Development of Peoples (Populorum Progressio). Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_26031967_populorum_en.html.

Additional Sources:

Barnes, Michael Horace, ed. Theology and the Social Sciences. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2001. ISBN# 1570753555.

Cote, Richard G., O.M.I. Re-Visioning Mission: The Catholic Church and Culture in Postmodern America. New York: Paulist, 1996. ISBN# 0809136457.

Elizondo, Virgilio. Guadalupe, Mother of the New Creation. Maryknoll, NY: 1997. ISBN# 1570751102.

Fogel, Robert William. The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. ISBN# 0226256634.

Gallagher, Michael Paul. Clashing Symbols: An Introduction to Faith and Culture. New York: Paulist, 1998. ISBN# 0809137844.

Geertz, Clifford. Local Knowledge. Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic, 1975. ISBN# 0465041620.

---. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic, 1977. ISBN# 0465097197.

Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage, 1976. ISBN# 0394716523.

Holland, Joe, and Peter Henriot, S.J. Social Analysis: Linking Faith and Justice. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1983. ISBN# 0883444623.

Janowitz, Morris. "Sociological Theory and Social Control." American Journal of Sociology 81.1 (1975): 82-108. (Call the LIMEX librarians at 800.777.5469 for help in getting a copy of this article.)

Jordan, Winthrop. The White Man's Burden. New York: Oxford UP, 1974. ISBN# 0195017439.

Law, Eric H. F. The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community. St. Louis: Chalice, 1993. ISBN# 082724231x.

Lincoln, C. Eric. Coming Through The Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America. Durham: Duke UP, 1996. ISBN# 0822317362.

Marty, Martin E. Education, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion's Role in Our Shared Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. ISBN# 0787950335.

---. Politics, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion's Role in Our Shared Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. ISBN# 0787950319.

McClay, Wilfred M. The Masterless. Self and Society in Modern America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 0807844195.

Needleman, Jacob. The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders. New York: Jeremy Tarcher /Putnam, 2002. ISBN# 1585421383.

Nord, Warren A. Religion & American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma. Chapel Hill: Uof North Carolina P, 1995. ISBN# 0807844780.

Putnam, Robert. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. ISBN# 0743203046.

Schreiter, Robert J. Mission in the Third Millennium. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2001. ISBN# 1570753687.

Slater, Philip. The Pursuit of Loneliness. American Culture at the Breaking Point. 3rd ed. Boston: Beacon, 1976. ISBN# 0807042013.

Sniderman, Paul M., and Thomas Piazza. The Scar of Race. Cambridge: Belknap/Harvard UP, 1993. ISBN# 0674790111.

Taylor, Charles. The Ethics of Authenticity. Harvard, MA: Harvard UP, 1992. ISBN# 0674268636.

Warren, Michael. Faith, Culture, and the Worshiping Community: Shaping the Practice of the Local Church. Portland, OR: Oregon Catholic, 1993. ISBN# 1569290024.

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