Sentences with phrase «hostile public square»

First there is a tendency, owing perhaps to its MacIntyrean inspiration, to conceive of this «option» primarily in practical or political terms, that is, as a kind of «communitarian» stance within an increasingly hostile public square.

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Colonial - era Catholicism on the East Coast adjusted to a potentially hostile cultural environment and overcame centrifugal tendencies by relocating the sacred from church building and public square to home, extended family and a «domesticized piety.»