Saving Families from Secularism: The Power of Catholic Lay Movements in Post-War America

• In Event: Religious Civil Society and Political Identity

Brief Overview

This paper complicates narratives of the individualization of faith and
marriage by examining how individuality and secularism became cultural
symbols during the 1940s to mobilize Catholic family movements to engage the public sphere.

Author

• Courtney Irby, Illinois Wesleyan University