Silk / Killen The Future of Catholicism in America

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54943-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: The Future of Religion in America

This volume considers Catholicism's prospects at a pivotal moment. Contributors—scholars from sociology, theology, religious studies, and history—look at the church’s evolving institutional structure, its increasing ethnic diversity, and its changing public presence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silk, Mark

Killen, Patricia O'Connell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors’ Introduction: The Future of Religion in America, by Mark Silk and Andrew H. Walsh
Introduction: The Future of Roman Catholicism in the United States: Beyond the Subculture, by Patricia O’Connell Killen
1. Catholicism Today: Adrift and/or Adjusting, by William D. Dinges
2. Becoming Latino: The Transformation of U.S. Catholicism, by Timothy Matovina
3. Since Vatican II: American Catholicism in Transition, by Steven M. Avella
4. Who Pastors: The Priest, the Context, and the Ministry, by Katarina Schuth
5. A Pluriform Unity: A Historian’s View of the Contemporary Church, by Joseph P. Chinnici
6. Catholic Worship in a Contentious Age, by Andrew H. Walsh
7. Public Catholicism: Contemporary Presence and Future Promise, by Richard L. Wood
Conclusion: The Shape of the American Catholic Future, by Patricia O’Connell Killen
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Silk Mark:
Mark Silk (PhD, Medieval History, Harvard) is Professor of Religion in Public Life and Director of the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College. He is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II (Simon & Schuster, 1988), Unseular Media: Making News of Religion in America (Illinois, 1995), and (with Andrew Walsh) One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), among other titles; he has also codited a number of books. He is the coeditor (with Andrew Walsh) of The Future of Religion in America series (Columbia), editor of the newletter Religion in the News, and editor of the blog Spiritual Politics; former positions include editor of The Boston Review and staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His interests center on religion and public life in the United States and religion and American politics.Patricia O’Connell Killen is professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University. Her books include The Art of Theological Reflection (1994) and Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone (2004).

Mark Silk is professor of religion in public life and director of the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College. He is the author of Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America (1995) and coeditor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States, among others.