Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. How Come You’re Not Named after a Saint?
Growing Up Catholic in Mid-Twentieth-
Century America
2. Like an Owner’s Manual for a Very
Complicated Vehicle: Learning the Rules in
the Classroom and the Confessional
3. I Was Born a Catholic and I Think I Will Die
One: Inheriting Religion in the Home
4. In Death, as in Life, We Will Be
Irish: Constructing Identities in
the Community
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index