Perseverance in the Parish?

Perseverance in the Parish?
Author: Darren W. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108127568
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African American Catholics, though small in number and historically the targets of racial intolerance, are now the backbone of the church. The vast majority of African American Catholics do not perceive racial marginalization and intolerance in the church. African American Catholics are among the strongest religious identifiers in the church, while whites show a more fragile Catholic identity. The Catholic church may have finally overcome its racist past for the vast majority of African American Catholics, but serious concerns remain for white Catholics. Based on data from a national religion survey, this book explores religious attitudes from an African American Catholic perspective.

Thomas Verner Moore

Thomas Verner Moore
Author: Benedict Neenan
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809139873
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Thomas Verner Moore (1877-1969)-priest, author, teacher and practical psychiatrist-was one of the first advocates of modern psychology among Roman Catholics in the United States. In this fascinating biography Benedict Neenan brings to life this man of staggering accomplishments and recounts the many twists and turns he took in the search for his professional and spiritual development. Skillfully intertwining the dramatic interaction between Moore's intense activism and his deeply felt need for contemplation and asceticism, Neenan points out the many paradoxes and tensions of his rich and eventful life. For example, Moore started out in his adult religious life as a member of one of the most progressive and distinctly American religious communities, the Paulists, and ended it as a member of one of the most traditional orders, the Carthusians. Besides detailing the life of this accomplished man, this work offers a glimpse into American Catholic life American social life in the first half of the twentieth century.

Catholics in Psychology

Catholics in Psychology
Author: Henryk Misiak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1954
Genre: Catholic scientists
ISBN:
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"This book makes no attempt to rewrite the whole history of psychology, which in general has been well recounted by others, but it aims to supplement the standard textbooks in the field because of their lack of information concerning Catholic participation in psychology. Our volume is intended, therefore, as supplementary reading primarily for students in Catholic colleges and universities, especially for those who are studying the history of psychology and systematic psychology. We have concentrated on pointing out those who did the pioneer work in psychology among Catholics. We hope that a book of this sort will stimulate greater participation of Catholics in psychology. Because of the difficulty of obtaining adequate information, the book obviously has omissions and inadequacies"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Psychology and American Catholicism

Psychology and American Catholicism
Author: C. Kevin Gillespie
Publisher: Crossroad
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN:
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Through a series of historical accounts, this book offers a rare view of Roman Catholicism's 20th-century encounters with American culture, from the church's issues with experimental and clinical psychology to the assimilation of psychology's fund of knowledge.

Psychology and Catholicism

Psychology and Catholicism
Author: Robert Kugelmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2011-05-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1139499262
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In this study of psychology and Catholicism, Kugelmann aims to provide clarity in an area filled with emotion and opinion. From the beginnings of modern psychology to the mid-1960s, this complicated relationship between science and religion is methodically investigated. Conflicts such as the boundary of 'person' versus 'soul', contested between psychology and the Church, are debated thoroughly. Kugelmann goes on to examine topics such as the role of the subconscious in explaining spiritualism and miracles; psychoanalysis and the sacrament of confession; myth and symbol in psychology and religious experience; cognition and will in psychology and in religious life; humanistic psychology as a spiritual movement. This fascinating study will be of great interest to scholars and students of both psychology and religious studies but will also appeal to all of those who have an interest in the way modern science and traditional religion coexist in our ever-changing society.

A People Adrift

A People Adrift
Author: Peter Steinfels
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780743261449
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In this national bestseller, the most influential layman in the United States reports that the Roman Catholic Church in America must either profoundly reform or lapse into permanent irrelevance.