The spirit's tether: family, work, and religion among American Catholics
Through an examination of parish life together with the faith stories of parishioners, this book reveals how two congregational social processes - the practice of central ecclesial metaphors, and the construction of Catholic identities - matter for the ways in which parishioners work out the routine...
| Zusammenfassung: | Through an examination of parish life together with the faith stories of parishioners, this book reveals how two congregational social processes - the practice of central ecclesial metaphors, and the construction of Catholic identities - matter for the ways in which parishioners work out the routines of marriage, childrearing and work-family balance, as well as to the ways they connect these challenges to the public politics of the family. |
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| ISBN: | 0199346054 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199965779.001.0001 |