I review Paul Elie's new book on 80s American culture and Catholicism, which offers a pretext to talk about some Hujar photos I like, and to sort of make a case for Protestantism: https://arcmag.org/who-gets-a-seat-at-the-last-supper/
Thanks! And sure--there's just a standard narrative about mid-century mainline Christianity being a kind of common basis for American elite and middle class identity, and then about its breakdown... probably a story that has been or should be complicated, but I took it as given so I could complain about other stuff lol...
Enjoyed the review! Though I would say that Christianity's role in the body politic of America has more often been one of division than unity :)
Thanks! And sure--there's just a standard narrative about mid-century mainline Christianity being a kind of common basis for American elite and middle class identity, and then about its breakdown... probably a story that has been or should be complicated, but I took it as given so I could complain about other stuff lol...