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The Shared Parish - Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism (Hardcover)
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The Shared Parish - Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism (Hardcover)
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As faith communities in the United States grow increasingly more
diverse, many churches are turning to the shared parish, a single
church facility shared by distinct cultural groups who retain their
own worship and ministries. The fastest growing and most common of
these are Catholic parishes shared by Latinos and white Catholics.
Shared parishes remain one of the few institutions in American
society that allows cultural groups to maintain their own language
and customs while still engaging in regular intercultural
negotiations over the shared space. This book explores the shared
parish through an in-depth ethnographic study of a Roman Catholic
parish in a small Midwestern city demographically transformed by
Mexican immigration in recent decades. Through its depiction of
shared parish life, the book argues for new ways of imagining the
U.S. Catholic parish as an organization. The parish, argues Brett
C. Hoover, must be conceived as both a congregation and part of a
centralized system, and as one piece in a complex social ecology.
The Shared Parish also posits that the search for identity and
adequate intercultural practice in such parishes might call for new
approaches to cultural diversity in U.S. society, beyond
assimilation or multiculturalism. We must imagine a religious
organization that accommodates both the need for safe space within
distinct groups and for social networks that connect these groups
as they struggle to respectfully co-exist.
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