American ParishesPub Date : 2019-07-02DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0003
N. Ammerman
{"title":"Studying Parishes","authors":"N. Ammerman","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"While Catholic parishes are distinctive in culture and polity, they also share organizational characteristics with American congregations. Borrowing tools and concepts developed over the past thirty years in “congregational studies” can provide a useful resource to a revitalized study of American Catholic parishes and important comparative data on American religious life. This chapter argues that parishes can be better understood by paying attention both to the cultural toolkits parishioners bring from outside (ethnicity and social class, for example) and to the way they shape the larger tradition into their own local ways of doing things through their “artifacts,” “accounts,” and “activities.” In addition, the study of parishes can benefit from attention to the external social context and internal dynamics such as size, commitment, and power.","PeriodicalId":324430,"journal":{"name":"American Parishes","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131112023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ParishesPub Date : 2019-07-02DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0004
G. Adler
{"title":"The Shifting Landscape of US Catholic Parishes, 1998–2012","authors":"G. Adler","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Employing data from the National Congregations Study, this chapter charts parish trends in key areas of organizational life across a dynamic fifteen-year period of recent history. Parishes’ organizational composition is becoming older and more Hispanic, both among priests and among people in the pews. Meanwhile, local parish cultures are becoming more theologically conservative, but also less charismatic in worship style. Catholic parishes are also seeing large increases in political activity, suggesting a “new politicization” of local Catholic life. Finally, parishes have heightened their participation boundaries against women and gays and lesbians. While briefly suggesting possibilities for why these changes are taking place, this chapter provides an accurate descriptive view of contemporary U.S. parishes and suggests how best to study trends in the years ahead.","PeriodicalId":324430,"journal":{"name":"American Parishes","volume":"339 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116315154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ParishesPub Date : 2019-07-02DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0006
B. Hoover
{"title":"Power in the Parish","authors":"B. Hoover","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Catholic parishes in the United States are complex organizations (where multiple communities coexist and interact). Relying on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and a case study approach, this chapter explores three parishes in Southern California that showcase the complexity of interactions among different racial and ethnic communities. These parishes are shared in various configurations by white, Latino, Black, and Asian parishioners, and this chapter illuminates the power dynamics of race and ethnicity as they work themselves out in American life. In shared parishes, the cultural work of constructing Catholic identity necessarily involves deploying distinct cultural expressions of Catholicism shaped by broader power dynamics of race, ethnicity, and language. This chapter lays bare this process as parishes illustrate power-in-action, with parish interactions variously producing, perpetuating, and challenging existing power dynamics and race relations.","PeriodicalId":324430,"journal":{"name":"American Parishes","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117239632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ParishesPub Date : 2019-07-02DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0010
C. Irby
{"title":"Preparing to Say “I Do”","authors":"C. Irby","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Since its beginning in the postwar era, marriage preparation has enabled parishes to mediate both Catholic theology and broader cultural messages surrounding marriage. Drawing on archival research on two important Catholic family movements from the postwar era and ethnographic observation of marriage preparation in several contemporary parishes in Western Washington, this chapter highlights parish efforts to collectively engage in meaning-making by transmitting a Catholic vision of marriage to individual parishioners. While the vision of a “good” family has changed little from the postwar era to today, therapeutic cultural discourses about self-development and changing marital norms have entered into marriage preparation. Moreover, shifts in the structure of religious authority mean that who does the speaking has changed drastically. Lay persons are increasingly empowered to produce local Catholic culture and make sense of Catholic teachings through the marriage preparation process.","PeriodicalId":324430,"journal":{"name":"American Parishes","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127984378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ParishesPub Date : 2019-07-02DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0005
Mark M. Gray
{"title":"Stable Transformation","authors":"Mark M. Gray","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284351.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Utilizing data from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) of Georgetown University, this chapter explores the core and periphery within Catholic parishes over the past forty-plus years. Trend data reveal that many Catholics do not attend or participate in parishes at all, while others at the “core” are highly involved. This chapter traces meaningful differences between periphery and core Catholics and highlights how the core has diminished and the periphery has grown over time. While the Catholic Church maintains its steady share of the population through immigration, reverts, and smaller numbers of adult converts, it maintains this stability with smaller and smaller shares of the Catholic population intensely connected to parish life.","PeriodicalId":324430,"journal":{"name":"American Parishes","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122676798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ParishesPub Date : 2001-07-01DOI: 10.7591/9781501726668-007
T. Hollander, James M. Morris, Daniel Nelson, Richard L. Pacelle, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"T. Hollander, James M. Morris, Daniel Nelson, Richard L. Pacelle, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf","doi":"10.7591/9781501726668-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501726668-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324430,"journal":{"name":"American Parishes","volume":"31 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131103943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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