Mark Massa, SJ, “Catholic Fundamentalisms”
This event has been postponed
The Hank Center is pleased to welcome Fr. Mark Massa, SJ of Boston College’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, for its 2025 Jesuit Lecture. He will speak about his new book, Catholic Fundamentalism in America.
The term "fundamentalism" has its roots in specific forms of American Protestantism that arose around the turn of the twentieth century in reaction to liberalizing and modernizing trends within the church. In this book, Mark Massa argues that an analogously reactive, militant, and sectarian "fundamentalist" movement emerged within American Catholicism in the decades after World War II, for a similarly complex mix of theological and cultural reasons. In Catholic Fundamentalism in America Massa gives the first account of the Catholic form of the anti-modernist impulse. Through seven portraits of individuals and movements that embody the Catholic fundamentalist impulse, Massa demonstrates how the Catholic Right, like its evangelical Protestant counterpart, has reacted to--and fought against--modern American culture.
The response will be given by Heidi Schlumpf. Heidi Schlumpf is an award-winning, nationally recognized multimedia journalist, editor and podcaster with three decades of experience covering religion, spirituality, political, social and women’s issues.
