Reception
The Washington Post review called it "A provocative brief on some of the uglier prejudices lurking behind today's Catholic controversies." The National Catholic Register, calling Jenkins "the foremost historian of religious trends today, reviewed the book favorably, noting that the issues are particularly topical today. The Tablet, a British Catholic publication, in its review, while admitting that the book raised important issues, accused Jenkins of lacking a sense of humor. In 2009, the National Review suggested that the author ought to consider publishing an updated version in light of recent incidents of anti-Catholicism. The Baltimore Sun called it "a book of powerfully convincing fairness, of impressive scholarship and of extraordinary courage – Jenkins strips naked some of the most cherished hypocrisies of American ideologues from one extreme of the spectrum to the other."
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