A review by eirenophile
The Catholic Imagination by Andrew M. Greeley

3.0

So, this is unusual one in my comps list on religion. The author is a Catholic priest and a sociologist and apparently taught at a few universities including mine, but this book is much more targeted at a lay audience than most of what I read. It was a very fast read, which was appropriate to the content. He had some survey data, but I thought that was not very convincing. More interesting was his depiction of the importance of distributed hierarchy in and through communities (particularly given my interest in Latin American citizenship) and his discussion of the (tangible) enchantment of Catholic imagination. My review is way more jargony than his book. In terms of my needs this was more like 2 stars, but I thought it might be a good read for other people I know who aren't academically interested in religion, in which case it is certainly a three star book.