TY - BOOK AU - Avella,Steven M. AU - Chinnici,Joseph P. AU - Dinges,William D. AU - Killen,Patricia O'Connell AU - Matovina,Timothy AU - O'Connell Killen,Patricia AU - Schuth,Katarina AU - Silk,Mark AU - Walsh,Andrew H. AU - Wood,Richard L. TI - The Future of Catholicism in America T2 - The Future of Religion in America SN - 9780231191487 AV - BX1406.3 U1 - 282/.7309051 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editors' Introduction: The Future of Religion in America --; Introduction: The Future of Roman Catholicism in the United States: Beyond the Subculture --; 1. Catholicism Today: Adrift and/or Adjusting --; 2. Becoming Latino: The Transformation of U.S. Catholicism --; 3. Since Vatican II: American Catholicism in Transition --; 4. Who Pastors: The Priest, the Context, and the Ministry --; 5. A Pluriform Unity: A Historian's View of the Contemporary Church --; 6. Catholic Worship in a Contentious Age --; 7. Public Catholicism: Contemporary Presence and Future Promise --; Conclusion: The Shape of the American Catholic Future --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Catholics constitute the largest religious community in the United States. Yet most American Catholics have never known a time when their church was not embroiled in controversies over liturgy, religious authority, cultural change, and gender and sexuality. Today, these arguments are taking place against the backdrop of Pope Francis's progressive agenda and the resurgence of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. What is the future of Catholicism in America?This volume considers the prospects at a pivotal moment. Contributors-scholars from sociology, theology, religious studies, and history-look at the church's evolving institutional structure, its increasing ethnic diversity, and its changing public presence. They explore the tensions among members of the hierarchy, between clergy and laity, and along lines of ethnicity, immigration status, class, generation, political affiliation, and degree of religious commitment. They conclude that American Catholicism's future will be pluriform-reflecting the variety of cultural, political, ideological, and spiritual points of view that typify the multicultural, democratic society of which Catholics constitute so large a part UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/kill19148 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231549431 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231549431/original ER -