John Murray Cuddihy

John Murray Cuddihy (January 22, 1922 - April 18, 2011[1]) was an American sociologist. He was a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (GSUC).

He is the author of No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste (1978) and The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity (1974), two books in the sociology of religion. Cuddihy has been described as a "Catholic atheist", and "a brilliant yet eccentric critic of contemporary American Jewry".[2]

  1. ^ Cuddihy, John Murray. "John Murray Cuddihy". obitsforlife. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  2. ^ Michael Berenbaum, After Tragedy and Triumph: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought and the American Experience (1990), p. 26.