American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0823284352 ISBN 13 : 9780823284351

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Gary J. Adler, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University.

Tricia C. Bruce is Associate Professor of Sociology at Maryville College and the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Brian Starks is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kennesaw State University.

Nancy T. Ammerman is professor emerita of sociology of religion in the Sociology Department of the College of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Theology at Boston University. She is a leading voice in congregational studies and has served as president of the Society of the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association of the Sociology of Religion. Her books include Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2013), Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives (Oxford University Press, 2006), Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and their Partners (University of California Press, 2005), and Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World (Rutgers University Press, 1987).

Mary Jo Bane is the Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management Emerita at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests center on poverty and inequality and how Catholic teaching and Catholic parish life address these issues. She is the author of numerous books and articles on poverty, education, families, and welfare and once served as assistant secretary for Families and Children in the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823284352
• ISBN 13: 9780823284351
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Adler Gary J., Bruce Tricia C., Starks Brian
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne