| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension. By Jay P. Dolan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii, 312 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-19-506926-9.)

In a distinguished career at the University of Notre Dame, Jay P. Dolan has written a succession of important books on American Catholic history. He was among the first scholars to apply the insights of the new social history to Catholicism in The American Catholic Experience (1985), which broke new ground by looking at the entire subject through the eyes of the Catholic laity rather than those of priests and bishops. He retired recently, and his new book, In Search of an American Catholicism, is, in effect, a summary statement of the main themes in his work and that of other Catholic historians from his generation. It has little new informational or interpretive content, but it is ideal as an introduction to the main issues and characters in American Catholic history.

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