{"product_id":"crabgrass-catholicism-stephen-m-koeth-9780226842202","title":"Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow suburbanization was a crucial catalyst for reforms in the Catholic Church.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 1960s in America were a time of revolt against the stifling conformism embodied in the sprawling, uniform suburbs of the 1950s. Typically, the reforms of the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council, which aimed to make the Church more modern and accessible, are seen as one result of that broader cultural liberalization. Yet in \u003ci\u003eCrabgrass Catholicism\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen M. Koeth demonstrates that the liberalization of the Church was instead the product of the mass suburbanization that began some fifteen years earlier. Koeth argues that postwar suburbanization revolutionized the Catholic parish, the relationship between clergy and laity, conceptions of parochial education, and Catholic participation in US politics, and thereby was a significant factor in the religious disaffiliation that only accelerated in subsequent decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A novel exploration of the role of Catholics in postwar suburbanization, \u003ci\u003eCrabgrass Catholicism \u003c\/i\u003ewill be of particular interest to urban historians, scholars of American Catholicism and religious studies, and Catholic clergy and laity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen M. Koeth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226842207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226842202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/12\/2025","brand":"Stephen M. Koeth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906546225407,"sku":"9780226842202","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0decd02b-47f3-47b2-b9dd-512f07a2eab0.jpg?v=1748770748","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crabgrass-catholicism-stephen-m-koeth-9780226842202","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}