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Michael W. Cuneo. The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism. Baltimore:
Ashcraft, Mike
Ashcraft, Mike
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"This is the paperback version of the original hardback edition of The Smoke of Satan published by Oxford University Press in 1997. Although the 1999 edition contains a preface written for the Johns Hopkins University Press, Cuneo says nothing in that preface about the 1999 edition containing new information, further observations, or expanded coverage that renders it superior to the original hardback. Patricia Wittberg (Sociology of Religion 59 [Spring 1998]: 91) and William D. Dinges (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36 [1997]: 630-31) wrote reviews of the 1997 edition. I am grateful for their insights, especially Dinges's penetrating critiques. What follows is yet another review that builds upon previous reviewers' work and offers additional comments about Cuneo's book. [2] Cuneo claims that three strands of the Catholic right in the United States emerged following Vatican II. Conservatives, led by writers like James Hitchcock and organizations like Catholics United for the Faith, insist on the orthodoxy of their beliefs and commitments in rejecting the changes in the Church brought on by Vatican II. Among their ranks were those who focused on the abortion issue. Beginning in the 1970s these individuals, led by Joseph Scheidler, left the National Right to Life Committee to begin their own anti-abortion groups. They practiced nonviolent direct action, picketing abortion clinics and conducting sidewalk counseling for people entering the clinics for abortions. Eventually they found common cause with Randall Terry of Operation Rescue and other Evangelical Protestant anti-abortion activists. Their actions were motivated, according to Cuneo, by a sexual ideology that insisted on responsible use of the human body for procreation. Contraception and abortion, in their view, were symptoms of an irresponsible approach to sexuality running rampant in the ranks of the Catholic faithful as well as in American society generally."(pg 1)
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