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Contributors to this volume assess the meaning of globalization and
the capacity of Catholic social thought to understand, reform, and
guide it.
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and
with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the
first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American
Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study
sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S.
civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical
Protestant, African-American, Latino, and Muslim communities in the
United States, the two volumes in this series gather selected
essays from the Commonweal Colloquia and the joint meetings
organized by the Commonweal Foundation and The Faith and Reason
Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. Participants in
the Commonweal colloquia and the joint meetings-leading Catholic
scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders,
novelists and poets, church administrators and lobbyists,
activists, policy makers and politicians-produced approximately
forty-five essays presented at ten meetings that brought together
over two hundred and fifty participants. The two volumes in the
American Catholics in the Public Square Series address many of the
most critical issues now facing the Catholic Church in the United
States by drawing from the four goals of the colloquia-to identify,
assess, and critique the distinctive elements in Catholicism's
approach to civic life; to generate concrete analyses and
recommendations for strengthening Catholic civic engagement; to
encompass a broad spectrum of political and social views of
Catholics to encourage dialogue between Catholic leaders, religious
and secular media, and political thinkers; to reexamine the
long-standing Catholic belief in the obligation to promote the
common good and to clarify how Catholics may work better with those
holding other religious or philosophical convictions toward
revitalizing both the religious environment and civic participation
in the American republic. This first volume, American Catholics and
Civic Engagement: A Distinctive Voice, includes a general
introduction by Peter Steinfels and is structured in four parts,
each of which include a brief overview. Part One, Catholic Thought
in the American Context, explore the fundamental concepts that
underlie Catholic social thought and their relevance to American
public debate and public policy-the intellectual tools with which
Catholics have often participated in the public square. Part Two,
Catholic Institutions in the American Public Square, reveals the
Church's vast presence in the American public square-from the
church steeples that dot urban landscapes to primary and secondary
schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, clinics and nursing
homes, social service centers, orphanages, and shelters-and
provides a detailed analysis of the place of the parish in the
public square, the activities of the bishops' conferences in New
York, Wisconsin, and the California, and the challenges facing
Catholic health care providers. Part Three, Catholics in the Public
Square: Autobiographies, includes the personal stories of
politicians, journalists, lawyers, business executives, and labor
leaders who describe how their faith shaped and is shaped by their
work. Part Four, Catholics in the Voting Booth, relies on data from
two wide-ranging surveys of how Catholics vote and assesses the
impact on Catholic voters of the Catholic social tradition, of
sermons, of parish community and sacramental life, and of papal and
episcopal statements.
An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based
responses to one of today's most pressing social issues,
challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark
Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists,
and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in
understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity
in all corners of the United States-from Seattle, San Francisco,
and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C.,
and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart
intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root
causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for
practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based
nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and
material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable
populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy
specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with
faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this
volume an invaluable resource. Contributors include James V.
Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R.
Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville
Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip
Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, Maria Teresa Davila, Roberto Mata,
and Sathianathan Clarke. Co-published with Seattle University's
Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs
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
An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based
responses to one of today's most pressing social issues,
challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark
Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists,
and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in
understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity
in all corners of the United States-from Seattle, San Francisco,
and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C.,
and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart
intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root
causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for
practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based
nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and
material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable
populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy
specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with
faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this
volume an invaluable resource. Contributors include James V.
Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R.
Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville
Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip
Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, Maria Teresa Davila, Roberto Mata,
and Sathianathan Clarke. Co-published with Seattle University's
Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs
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
"Christian Political Ethics" brings together leading Christian
scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic,
Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental
questions of state and civil society, international law and
relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its
containment. Representing a unique fusion of faith-centered ethics
and social science, the contributors bring into dialogue their own
varying Christian understandings with a range of both secular
ethical thought and other religious viewpoints from Judaism, Islam,
and Confucianism. They explore divergent Christian views of state
and society--and the limits of each. They grapple with the tensions
that can arise within Christianity over questions of patriotism,
civic duty, and loyalty to one's nation, and they examine Christian
responses to pluralism and relativism, globalization, and war and
peace. Revealing the striking pluralism inherent to Christianity
itself, this pioneering volume recasts the meanings of Christian
citizenship and civic responsibility, and raises compelling new
questions about civil disobedience, global justice, and Christian
justifications for waging war as well as spreading world peace. It
brings Christian political ethics out of the churches and
seminaries to engage with today's most vexing and complex social
issues.
The contributors are Michael Banner, Nigel Biggar, Joseph
Boyle, Michael G. Cartwright, John A. Coleman, S.J., John Finnis,
Theodore J. Koontz, David Little, Richard B. Miller, James W.
Skillen, and Max L. Stackhouse.
An international journal of theology; a catholic journal in the
widest sense: rooted in Roman Catholicism yet open to other
Christian traditions and the world's faiths. Promotes discussion in
the spirit of Vatican II. Annual subscriptions available.
Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical
and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include
leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Kung, Gregory Baum and
Edward Schillebeeckx, and the editors of the review belong to the
international "who's who" in the world of contemporary theology.
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