American Parishes (eBook)

Remaking Local Catholicism

Gary J. Adler, Tricia C. Bruce, Brian Starks (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
224 Seiten
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8436-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach, this book displays the numerous forces currently reshaping American parishes. It draws from sociology of religion, culture, organizations, and race to illuminate basic parish processes, like leadership and education, and ongoing parish struggles like conflict and multiculturalism. American Parishes brings together contemporary data, methods, and questions to establish a sociological re-engagement with Catholic parishes and a Catholic re-engagement with sociological analysis. Contributions by leading social scientists highlight how community, geography, and authority intersect within parishes. It illuminates and analyzes how growing racial diversity, an aging religious population, and neighborhood change affect the inner workings of parishes. Contributors: Gary J. Adler Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, S.J., Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mary Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Ann Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt, and Brian Starks

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Catholic Practice in North America
• Co-Autor: Gary J. Adler, Tia Noelle Pratt, Brian Starks, Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Catholicism • Congregations • Field Theory • Organizations • parishes • Parish Life • Parish Trends
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-8436-0 / 0823284360
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-8436-8 / 9780823284368