The View from the Border: Why Catholics Leave the Church and Why They Stay

ISBN-13: 9780202363073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str.

John Kotre

Opis

In this unique psychological study, John Kotre provides some startling answers to the questions Catholics are now asking about those who abandon the church, those who remain in it, and those who attempt to create a new church within the church. A detailed examination of the borderline between membership and exmembership in the Catholic Church, as perceived by young adults reared within the Catholic educational system, the book provides an impressive substantive contribution to understanding not only of the modern church, but of organizational change in general.

Spis treści

1: Prelude; 1: Why the Border; 2: One Hundred Young Adults: Who They Were and Where They Started; 3: The Period of Change; 2: The Results of Change; 4: What They Believe; 5: What They Value; 6: The Two Churches; 3: The Search for Why; 7: Male versus Female; 8: Parents; 9: An Explanation; 4: Extensions; 10: The Future of These One Hundred; 11: The Institution as Permeable: Past; Present and Future

O autorze

John Kotre