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With contributions from leading religious studies scholars this is
a comprehensive overview of the relationship between religion and
death. This is the first and only book to be written at an
accessible undergraduate level and has the potential to be adopted
widely. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to cover new
debates and developments for example end of life ethics and the
hospice movement. This new edition also considers emerging
phenomena such as public shrines, the COVID-19 pandemic, funeral
celebrants, death with dignity, spiritual bereavement groups, and
online funeral practices.
With contributions from leading religious studies scholars this is
a comprehensive overview of the relationship between religion and
death. This is the first and only book to be written at an
accessible undergraduate level and has the potential to be adopted
widely. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to cover new
debates and developments for example end of life ethics and the
hospice movement. This new edition also considers emerging
phenomena such as public shrines, the COVID-19 pandemic, funeral
celebrants, death with dignity, spiritual bereavement groups, and
online funeral practices.
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
While religious communities often stress the universal nature of
their beliefs, it remains true that people choose to worship
alongside those they identify with most easily. Multiethnic
churches are rare in the United States, but as American attitudes
toward diversity change, so too does the appeal of a church that
offers diversity. Joining such a community, however, is
uncomfortable-worshippers must literally cross the barriers of
ethnic difference by entering the religious space of the ethnically
"other." Through the story of one multiethnic congregation in
Southern California, Kathleen Garces-Foley examines what it means
to confront the challenges in forming a religious community across
ethnic divisions and attracting a more varied membership.
It is commonly accepted that the way to build church growth is to
target specific ethnic or racial groups. People prefer to worship
with their own, the theory goes, and if growth is what you want you
have to accept that fact. In this book Kathleen Garces-Foley
challenges the accepted wisdom and puts forth an alternative
hypothesis about the role of a multi-cultural ideology in
integrating a range of ethnic and generational groups. Through the
story of one Asian-American-led multiethnic congregation in
Southern California, Evergreen Baptist Church, she seeks to
understand how the multiethnic church works as a new and unique
social institution. The driving force behind the formation of
multiethnic churches, Garces-Foley says, is a new generation of
Christians who have been raised in diverse urban settings and have
internalized a value for diversity as taught in the public schools.
In the case of Evergreen, she finds, many of the younger members
learned about the evangelical theology of racial reconciliation in
Bible study groups such as InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and
after graduation sought out a multiethnic church where they could
put their theological commitment into action. In response to the
demand for greater diversity in religious life, churches are
increasingly adopting a multiethnic identity and looking for
strategies for managing the conflicts that inevitably emerge in
diverse settings. Evergreen, Garces-Foley shows, has been
successful in reframing these conflicts into opportunities for
Christian growth, through a "theology of discomfort." This strategy
turns on its head the idea that the Church is supposed to be a
place of comfort, and challenges members to embrace the discomfort
of cross-cultural exchanges as integral to Christian discipleship.
By stressing the sacrifice of comfort required in the multiethnic
church, Evergreen and parishes like it inspire members to bear the
costs of diversity. Moreover, to the extent that these churches
encourage members to take their commitment for racial
reconciliation beyond the church walls, they are participating in a
larger social discourse about racial justice and may have a
positive role to play in the future of our multiethnic society.
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