Catholicism is generally over-institutionalized and over-centralized in comparison to other religions. However, it finds itself in an increasingly interrelated and globalized world and is therefore immersed in a great plurality of social realities. The Changing Faces of Catholicism assembles an international cast of contributors to explore the consequent decline of powerful Catholic organisations as well as to address the responses and resistance efforts that specific countries have taken to counteract the secularization crisis in both Europe and the Americas. It reveals some of the strategies of the Catholic Church as a whole, and of the Vatican centre in particular, to address problems of the global era through the dissemination of spiritually progressive writing, World Youth Days, and the transformation of Catholic education to become a forum for intercultural and interreligious dialogue. The volume also reflects on the adaptation of Catholic institutions and missions as sponsored by religious communities and monastic orders.
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This volume explores some of the strategies employed by the Catholic Church as a whole to address problems of the global era, in particular the responses and resistance efforts undertaken in a bid to counteract the secularization crisis in both Europe and the Americas, through spiritual writers, World Youth Days and Catholic education.
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Notes on Contributors Introduction to The Changing Faces of Catholicism  Solange Lefebvre and Alfonso Pérez-Agote Part 1: Catholicism in Both Catholic and Pluralistic Societies 1 Religion and National Identity in Catholic Societies: The Quarrel between Religion and Culture  Jean-François Laniel 2 Popular Religiosity and Value Changes in Mexico City Youth  Jesús Antonio Serrano Sánchez, Ramiro Gómez-Arzápalo and Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores 3 From a Place of Popular Religiosity to a Transnational Space of Multiple Meanings and Religious Interactions  Helena Vilaça 4 Cultural Catholics in the United States  Tricia C. Bruce Part 2: Strategies within Specific Countries to Counteract the Secularization Crisis 5 Occupying the Margins of Society: Operationalizing Minority Identity Politics among Youth within the Catholic New Evangelization  Paul L. Gareau 6 Catholic Reconquest: The Case of the Sainte Blandine Megachurch in Lyon  Valérie Aubourg 7 The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (ccr) in the Americas  Andrea Althoff and Jakob Egeris Thorsen 8 Religious Practices, Beliefs and Commitments on the Margins of the Catholic Church in Belgium  Karel Dobbelaere and Liliane Voyé Part 3: Strategies and General Attitudes of the Catholic Church, and of the Vatican Centre in Particular,in Relation to Problems of the Global Era 9 Catholicism and Eastern Religions: Spiritual Innovators and Interreligious Dialogue (de Mello and Merton)  Andrew P. Lynch 10 Religion in a Globalized Culture: Institutional Innovation and Continuity of Catholicism—The Case of World Youth Day  Sławomir Mandes and Wojciech Sadłoń 11 The Joy of Dialogue in an Intercultural World: Educational Implications from Evangelii Gaudium  Graham P. McDonough Part 4: Changes in Specific Catholic Institutions 12 Navigating the Fault Lines of Catholic Institutional Identity  Kevin Ahern 13 The Economy of Stability in Catholic Monasteries in the Czech Republic and Austria  Barbora Spalová and Isabelle Jonveaux Index
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ISBN
9789004375796
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Brill; Brill
Vekt
628 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
316

Om bidragsyterne

Solange Lefebvre, Université de Montréal, is Professor of Religious Studies. Her publications include the edited volume Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: Analysis, Reception and Challenges (Routledge, 2017).

Alfonso Pérez-Agote, Complutense University of Madrid, is Professor of Sociology. His publications include Cambio religioso en España: los avatares de la secularización (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Madrid, 2012), The Intimate, Polity and the Catholic Church (coedited with Karel Dobbelaere, Leuven University Press, 2015) and Religion in the Public Sphere: Canadian Case Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2014).

Contributors are: Kevin Ahern, Andrea Althoff, Valérie Aubourg, Tricia C. Bruce, Karel Dobbelaere, Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores, Paul L. Gareau, Ramiro Gómez-Arzápalo, Isabelle Jonveaux, Jean-François Laniel, Andrew P. Lynch, Sławomir Mandes, Graham P. McDonough, Wojciech Sadłoń, Jesús Antonio Serrano Sánchez, Barbora Spalová, Jakob Egeris Thorsen, Helena Vilaça, Liliane Voyé