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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adler, Gary J.

Adler, Gary J., Editor.

Ammerman, Nancy

Bane, Mary Jo.

Bruce, Tricia C.

Bruce, Tricia C., Editor.

Coleman, John A.

Garces-Foley, Kathleen

Gray, Mark M.

Hoover, Brett.

Irby, Courtney

Pratt, Tia Noelle

Starks, Brian.

Starks, Brian, Editor.

Series:

Catholic Practice in North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--United States.

Catholic Church.

Catholics--United States.

Catholics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction. What is a parish? why look at catholic parishes?

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

3. The shifting landscape of us catholic parishes, 1998–2012

4. Stable transformation catholic parishioners in the united states

5. Power in the parish

6. Liturgy as identity work in predominantly African American parishes

7. A house divided

8. Parishes as homes and hubs

9. Preparing to say “i do”

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-8437-9

OCLC:

1103320316