Reviews for European Avars: Age of Enlightenment, House of Bourbon, European Avars, Khagan, Turkic peopl...

The average rating for European Avars: Age of Enlightenment, House of Bourbon, European Avars, Khagan, Turkic peopl... based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-18 00:00:00 Amband Amband This book provides a very good and nuanced analysis of the developing place of Catholicism in American culture, analogous to that provided by a book about the Italian-American experience titled La Storia, which I have not been able to find on Goodreads, so I can't provide a page link. The book traces currents in both Catholicism and American politics from the 1830s up through the early 2000s and the first wave of the sex abuse crisis. Each chapter focuses on a different issue where Catholicism and the American mainstream intersect. I enjoy this type of history book because this approach tends to be more nuanced than strait narrative history. The different chapters take on the various currents of Catholic thought on particular issues and how to apply them in the American context. It also looks at mainstream anti-Catholic prejudices and how those played into how Catholics responded to different issues. Just as a small side bar and summation, hopefully, anyone who buys Dinesh D'Souza's nonsense about the Democratic Party being historically, institutionally racist just needs to read this book. It does a really good job of examining the political nuances that not only historically led Catholics to vote overwhelmingly Democrat, but also gets into the political rearranging of the parties that happened in the later middle part of the 20th century. All in all, I would say that this is a very well done work of cultural history which I think many people would benefit from reading, if only for its well researched discussion of various political issues over time.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-17 00:00:00 Rodney Abbiw This was a textbook for my masters in theology class. Great read!