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Book Review


Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America. Ed. by James M. O'Toole. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 289 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-4256-7.)
These four essays demand attention from historians of U.S. religion. They examine issues that influenced tens of millions of U.S. Catholics yet are unfamiliar to most historians. Contributors avoid "unusual, perhaps exotic religious practices," focusing on "daily and weekly observance, that embodied [ordinary Catholics'] faith, more than any abstract set of dogmas" (pp. 1–2). The result is nuanced, insightful scholarship. . . .
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