American Parishes : : Remaking Local Catholicism /

American Parishes : : Remaking Local Catholicism / / ed. by Gary J. Adler, Tricia C. Bruce, Brian Starks.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Adler Jr., Gary J.,
Ammerman, Nancy T.,
Bane, Mary Jo,
Bruce, Tricia C.,
Coleman, John A.,
Garces-Foley, Kathleen,
Gray, Mark M.,
Hoover, Brett C.,
Irby, Courtney Ann,
Pratt, Tia Noelle,
Starks, Brian,
TeilnehmendeR:
Adler, Gary J.
Ammerman, Nancy.
Bane, Mary Jo.
Bruce, Tricia C.
Coleman, John A.
Garces-Foley, Kathleen.
Gray, Mark M.
Hoover, Brett.
Irby, Courtney.
Pratt, Tia Noelle.
Starks, Brian.
HerausgeberIn:
Adler, Gary J.,
Bruce, Tricia C.,
Starks, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Catholic Practice in North America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. What is a parish? why look at catholic parishes?
  • Part I: Seeing parishes through a sociological lens
  • 1. A brief history of the sociology of parishes in the united states
  • 2. Studying parishes lessons and new directions from the study of congregations
  • Part II: Parish trends
  • 3. The shifting landscape of us catholic parishes, 1998-2012
  • 4. Stable transformation catholic parishioners in the united states
  • Part III: Race, class, and diversity in parish life
  • 5. Power in the parish
  • 6. Liturgy as identity work in predominantly African American parishes
  • 7. A house divided
  • Part IV: Young Catholics in (and out) of parishes
  • 8. Parishes as homes and hubs
  • 9. Preparing to say "i do"
  • Part V: The practice and future of a sociology of catholic parishes
  • 10. A sociologist looks at his own parish a conversation with john a. Coleman, SJ
  • Conclusion. Parishes as the embedded middle of American Catholicism
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index

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