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Title: The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice by Philip Jenkins ISBN: 0-19-515480-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Liberal intolerance exposed and documented
Comment: An ironic fact about American society today: liberals who are always lecturing others about tolerence, are themselves the most intolerant when it comes to religion, in particular, Catholicism. This documented fact has been the topic of bestsellers by Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Bernard Goldberg, Michael Medved and others. Prof. Jenkins' book is less polemical than the other books, and more objective. But he documents enough indisputable evidence to make the same point: liberals hate the Catholic Church!
Jenkins' critique of liberal "Catholics" like Maureen Dowd, Anna Quindlen and Harry Wills is so devastating I wonder how anyone in the media could take them seriously again. But that's the very point - Wills, Dowd and their like are the cringing little lap-dogs of the liberal media establishment. They denounce the Pope and Church in exchange for their fifteen minutes of attention as news analysts.
I recommend this book to all Catholics and those interested in media bias issues. Warning: it's not pleasant reading - Jenkins lets the liberals' own words condemn them.
Rating: 4
Summary: Historical context helps to explain book's premise
Comment: Many thought-provoking points are raised in Phillip Jenkin's book which make it an interesting read.
Much of today's negative opinion of Catholism (documented in The New Anti-Catholism) is the result of the scientific revolution and goes back to Galileo's trial and the issues debated in his 1633 trial, at the hands of the Inquisition. The trial ushered in a scientific mindset that everything scientific was good and true, and that all things religious, ie Catholic, were evil and bereft of reason.
How this shift in world perspective happened and why is examined in a recent book by Wade Rowland called Galileo's Mistake. Rowland contends that the clash between Galileo and the Church was not about Copernicus or astronomy or science, but whether science provides the only pathway to truth. Galileo's Mistake gives the historical context and reasons that explain Philip Jenkins' premise in The New Anti-Catholicism.
Rating: 1
Summary: A very silly book
Comment: I am a Catholic, I have been a Catholic since my baptism
at two days of age. Phillip Jenkin's book is just another
attempt by a scribbling Britt to make money and gain fame (of a sort) in the American neo-conservative river of money.
The most serious anti-Catholic manifestations in the United States are, as they have always been, contained in the conservative protestant evangelical movement. If you doubt this listen to their radio programs, go into their book stores and look for quotes by their leaders. For Jenkins to ignore this flood of anti-Catholic hatred to make a case that liberals (including a number of actual Catholics) are the source of scorn and hatred of the Catholic church and Catholics is dishonest.
To see real anti-Catholic diatribes you should try to find what people such as Jean Kirkpatrick and Al Haig said about the Church women murdered in El Salvador.
Jenkins is just another neo-con on the make.
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Title: Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice by Mark S. Massa ISBN: 0824521293 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis by Philip Jenkins ISBN: 0195145976 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church by George Weigel ISBN: 0465092608 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: A People Adrift : The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America by Peter Steinfels ISBN: 0684836637 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Catholicism and American Freedom: A History by John T. McGreevy ISBN: 0393047601 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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