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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
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
How do middle-class Americans become aware of distant social
problems and act against them? US colleges, congregations, and
seminaries increasingly promote immersion travel as a way to bridge
global distance, produce empathy, and increase global awareness.
But does it? Drawing from a mixed methods study of a progressive,
religious immersion travel organization at the US-Mexico border,
Empathy Beyond US Borders provides a broad sociological context for
the rise of immersion travel as a form of transnational civic
engagement. Gary J. Adler, Jr follows alongside immersion travelers
as they meet undocumented immigrants, walk desert trails, and
witness deportations. His close observations combine with
interviews and surveys to evaluate the potential of this civic
action, while developing theory about culture, empathy, and
progressive religion in transnational civic life. This timely book
describes the moralization of travel, the organizational challenges
of transnational engagement, and the difficulty of feeling
transformed but not knowing how to help.
How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age? What can
the millennia-old Catholic tradition say to church-state
controversies in the United States and around the world?
Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life, presents a
dialogue between Douglas W. Kmiec, a prominent scholar of American
constitutional law and Catholic legal thought, and an international
cast of experts from a range of fields. In his essay, "Secularism
Crucified?," Kmiec illustrates the profound tensions around
religion and secularism through an examination of the Lautsi case,
a European judicial decision that supported the presence of
crucifixes in Italian classrooms. Laying out a church-state
typology, Kmiec argues for clarifying U.S. church-state
jurisprudence, and advances principles to prudently limit the
over-stretching impulse of religious conscience claims. In the
process, he engages secular thinkers, popes, U.S. Supreme Court
rulings, and President Barack Obama. The respondents, scholars of
legal theory, international relations, journalism, religion, and
social science, challenge Kmiec and illustrate ways in which both
scholars and citizens should understand religion, democracy, and
secularism. Their essays bring together current events in Catholic
life, recent social theory, and issues such as migration, the Arab
Spring, and social change.
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