The Faithful Departed : The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawler, Philip F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boston (Mass.)--Church history.

Boston (Mass.)--Religious life and customs.

Catholic Church--Massachusetts--Boston.

Boston (Mass.).

Catholic Church.

Local Subjects:

Boston (Mass.)--Church history.

Boston (Mass.)--Religious life and customs.

Catholic Church--Massachusetts--Boston.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2010.

Summary:

The Faithful Departed traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church as a cultural dynamo in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that has echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions have lost social influence in the face of rising secularization.The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became painfully apparent in 2002, with the full explosion of the sex-abuse crisis. But Lawler brings an insider's knowledge and a journalist's sense of drama to show that the sex-abuse scandal was neither the cause nor the beginning of Catholicism's declin

Contents:

Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612719332

9781282719330

1282719335

9781594035111

1594035113

OCLC:

652654479