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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Catholic Practice in North AmericaPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823284375
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 282.73 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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
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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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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

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In English.

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