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The Politics of Spirituality - A Study of a Renewal Process in an English Diocese (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Spirituality - A Study of a Renewal Process in an English Diocese (Hardcover)
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This book provides the first in-depth case study of 'Renew' - a
pastoral programme of religious revitalization. The programme
originated in the United States in 1976 and has been widely adopted
throughout the Roman Catholic world. Initiated from the top down in
a hierarchically-structured church, it can be seen as an example of
clerical attempts to stimulate and control lay spirituality in an
organizationally controlled manner (as opposed to grass-roots
movements, such as those associated with liberation theology). The
authors look at the history of religious organizations in the Roman
Catholic Church and the affects of modernity on religious practice,
and the decline in the latter which prompted the diocese to adopt
'Renew'. Their findings show that the effects of 'Renew' were
limited and short-lived, an inevitable consequence of the ambiguous
and often contradictory aims. In analysing these findings they
suggest some ways in which the church might reform itself - by
decentralization and a reform of the papacy, for example - to meet
the challenges of the modern age.
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