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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
"The best study of congregations to have appeared in the last
seventy years." --Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University "A
path-breaking study of the way in which churches adapt, or fail to
adapt, to changes in their environment. This definitive study
should be read both by people active in church work and by
academics interested in religion in a changing American society."
--Peter L. Berger, Boston University "Those who want to understand
how Americans really deal with the vast changes sweeping our
country, those who care deeply about the future of churches,
synagogues, and other local religious gatherings, and those who
want to contribute to our society's increasingly complex efforts to
build life-giving communities must come to terms with the
discoveries of Nancy Ammerman and her research team . . . Bravo "
--James P. Wind, president, Alban Institute "The first
comprehensive examination of the relationship between rapid
community change and local church life since the 1930s. This is the
sociology of religion at its best, combined with refreshing
reflection on the prospects and possibilities of local faith
communities." --William McKinney, president, Pacific School of
Religion Change--in population, economy, and culture--is sweeping
through American communities. Corner groceries are stocking new
foods. New roads are being built and Main Streets abandoned.
Schools have come and gone, and old friends move away as strangers
arrive. But in every community, no matter how volatile, religious
institutions provide for their members places of moral guidance and
spiritual nurture, civic participation, and identity. How do
congregations react to significant communitiy change? Why do some
religious institutions decline in the face of racial integration
while other adapt and grow? How do congregations make sense of
economic distress? Do they provide havens from community upheaval
or are they vehicles for change? Congregations and Community is the
most comprehensive study to date of congregations in the face of
community transformation. Nancy Ammerman and her colleagues include
stories of over twenty congregations in nine communities from
across the nation, communities with new immigrant populations,
growing groups of gays and lesbians, rapid suburbanization, and
economic dislocations. With almost half of the nation's population
attending religious services each week, it is impossible to
understand change in American society without a close look at
congregations. Congregations and Community will exist as a standard
resource for years to come, and clergy, academics, and general
readers alike will benefit from its insights. Nancy Tatom Ammerman
is a professor of the sociology religion at Hartford Seminary. She
is the author of several books, including Baptist Battles and Bible
Believers (both available from Rutgers University Press). The
reserch for this book was supported by a grant from the Lilly
Endowment.
Winner, 1992 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion "With unbending fairness, Ammerman provides a
historical and sociological context to unfold the historical events
and issues that have dramatically changed the shape of Southern
Baptists. A benchmark study of a religious body in conflict, this
work is a leading authority on the present status of Southern
Baptists."--Religious Studies Review "Nancy Ammerman knows . . . of
the value and worth of the lives of people who operate in intact
biblical-literal cultures. . . . She takes their conflicts
seriously and tells us, without hitting us over the head, that we
will have them all wrong--to our peril--if we do not listen. . . .
Her narrative style is brisk, purposeful, and unadorned."--Martin
E. Marty, University of Chicago "If only this sociological
evaluation of Southern Baptist life could sell five million
copies---Rutgers would be astonished, Ammerman would be basking at
Club Med in Phuket, and I would be ecstatic. . . . Every movement
conservative in the Southern Baptist fellowship should purchase two
copies of this book."--Paige Patterson, President, Southeastern
Theological Seminary, in Christianity Today "Ammerman explores the
hurts and aspirations of both sides so evenhandedly that it may be
difficult for all but the most die-hard partisans to guess which
side is going to get the better seats in heaven."--The Christian
Century "Analyzes fully the processes of the Fundamentalist
takeover and their struggles as they begin to govern. Probably the
best study available."--Choice "A splendid account of a decade of
controversy. This readable volume surely ranks as the indispensable
contemporary sociohistorical introduction to Southern Baptists."--
The Journal of Religion Nancy Tatom Ammerman is an associate
professor of the sociology of religion at the Candler School of
Theology at Emory University and the author of Bible Believers:
Fundamentalists in the Modern World, and Congregation and
Community: Sacred Spaces in Changing Urban Regions, both from
Rutgers University Press.
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