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James McCartin
In the audio lecture posted here, James McCartin, associate professor and director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, discusses the themes in his book, Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics (Harvard University Press, 2010).
McCartin's book explores prayer both as an object of study and an active force in people's lives, and it demonstrates how American Catholics' beliefs and spiritual practices changed alongside American society and culture from the 1860s to the 1980s.
McCartin, a 1996 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, previously served in the History Department at Seton Hall University where he was also associate director of the Center for Catholic Studies and a member of the University Honors Program faculty. In 2006-07, he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion.
This talk was given at the College of the Holy Cross on March 16, 2011.