The Myth of Modernity: Is There a Bigger Picture?
New Books in Critical Theory
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Stephen Colbert and Patricia Heaton quiz each other on their Catholic bona fides. How, as a Catholic, how do you sell your house faster? You bury St. Joseph upside down in your lawn. A Catholic priest might warn that bearing a statue for good luck is attributing magical power to a sacred thing. This tension between folk superstitions and church doctrine goes back a long way.
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