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The Spirit's Tether - Family, Work, and Religion among American Catholics (Hardcover)
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The Spirit's Tether - Family, Work, and Religion among American Catholics (Hardcover)
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Cultural conflicts about the family-including those surrounding
women's social roles, the debate over abortion, and in more recent
years, debates about stem cell research, same-sex marriage, and
contraception-have intensified over the last few decades among
Catholics, as well as among American citizens generally. In fact,
these conflicts comprise much of the substance of the moral
polarization that currently characterizes our public politics.
Scholars have demonstrated the importance of the media in the
endurance of these conflicts, as well as the important role played
by elites, particularly religious elites. But less is known about
how individuals in local settings and cultures-especially religious
settings-experience and participate in them. Why are these
conflicts so resonant among ordinary Americans, and Catholics in
particular? By exploring how religion and family life are
intertwined in local parish settings, this book strives to
understand how and why Catholics are divided around these cultural
conflicts about the family. It presents a close and detailed
comparative ethnographic analysis of the families and local
religious cultures in two Catholic parishes: religiously
conservative Our Lady of the Assumption Church and theologically
progressive St. Brigitta Church. Through an examination of the
activities of parish life, together with the faith stories of
parishioners, this book reveals how two congregational social
processes-the practice of central ecclesial metaphors, and the
construction of Catholic identities-matter for the ways in which
parishioners work out the routines of marriage, childrearing, and
work-family balance, as well as to the ways they connect these
everyday challenges to the public politics of the family. The
analysis further demonstrates that these institutional processes
promote polarization among Catholics through practices that
unintentionally fragment the Catholic tradition in local religious
settings.
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