Word: gitlin
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...crave acceptance. Public confession has increased, says University of Chicago Theologian Martin Marty, as the popular sense of God has diminished. Says Marty: "When you can't talk to God, you've got to tell a million people." That insight parallels one offered by Sociology Professor Todd Gitlin of the University of California at Berkeley: "The public has become the new priesthood of the confessional...