Smoke of Satan Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism

"A thoughtful, detailed exploration of three small but growing fundamentalist groups within post-Vatican II American Catholicism. ...Cuneo examines several distinct groups that have emerged from the 'crisis of identity' caused by change: moral conservatives, including the militant late-20-century crusaders against abortion; Catholic separatists, who have withdrawn from the Church [into] their own, isolationist communities; and Marianists, who seek guidance from the apocalyptic messages of the blessed Virgin's miraculous appearances.....Cuneo never mocks his subjects. Rather, he seeks to understand separatism's origins in the seeming vacuum of authority created by Vatican II...and places the Marianists in a context of the demythologization of Catholicism after the Council....This is a winning ethnography of some unusual religious sects."Cuneo, Michael W. is the author of 'Smoke of Satan Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism', published 1999 under ISBN 9780801862656 and ISBN 0801862655.