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This paper serves as a preliminary study for an analysis of the public role which the American Catholic Bishops assumed in the 1980s. The analysis is part of a broader, forthcoming study,Public Religions in the Modern World, which includes also studies of Catholicism in Spain, Poland, and Brazil, and a study of Protestant Fundamentalism.
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Casanova, J. Roman and Catholic and American: The transformation of Catholicism in the United States. Int J Polit Cult Soc 6, 75–111 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01417664
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