Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America Since Vatican II

ISBN-13: 9780198866756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Stephen Bullivant

Opis

Mass Exodus is the first serious historical and sociological study of Catholic lapsation and disaffiliation. Drawing on a wide range of theological, historical, and sociological sources, Bullivant offers a comparative study of secularization across two famously contrasting religious cultures: Britain and the USA.

Recenzje

Professor Bullivant's "social-scientific" account of the state of the Catholic Church is a welcome contrast to the partisan antagonisms of Catholic journalism and pulpit prejudice.

O autorze

Stephen Bullivant is Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion at St Mary's University, London. He is Director of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society. An award-winning scholar, Bullivant's research and teaching interests are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary. Most notably, they include several areas of Catholic theology, and the social-scientific study of religion and atheism/secularity. His publications include The Oxford Dictionary of Atheism (co-authored with Lois Lee; 2016), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism (co-edited with Michael Ruse; 2016), The Trinity: How Not to Be a Heretic (2015), and The Salvation of Atheists and Catholic Dogmatic Theology (2012).