The Shared Parish

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"The book is a welcome addition to the contemporary discussion about parish life in the United States." (Sociology of Religion) "Perhaps the greatest value of the bookis to be found in the chapter Hoover devotes to promoting a theory of the shared parish. He explores how this parish can function administratively as one church while maintaining & two distinct cultural communities operating in parallelEnglish and Spanish, Euro-American and Latino, each with its own masses in ministries." (Sociology of Religion) "[]The Shared Parishis a book that creatively presents the cultural and religious transformation happening in Catholic places of worship and challenges scholars from the social sciences and theology to engage in further research on this growing phenomenon of shared parishes." (Review of Religious Research) "Offers a full, rich, and highly satisfying analysis of the challenge of diversity in the Roman Catholic church of America. Yes, we know that broad demographic shifts are affecting the the Catholic church, but this book finally gives an intimate, contextually rich, and theologically astute presentation of ground-level workings of cultural diversity among faithful Catholics who strive to achieve unity amidst their clashing cultural heritages." - Gerardo Marti,author of Worship across the Racial Divide "Trained in theology and social science, adept in Catholic culture and in Spanish, Brett Hoover brilliantly captures the distinctly Catholic phenomenon of the shared parish. He writes with insight and compassion about the alternately tense and calm encounters that take place when two different groups find themselves living religiously together." - R. Stephen Warner,University of Illinois at Chicago "The Shared Parish: Lations, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism, [is] an intriguing and much-needed addition to the growing body of literature on a theology of parish , is both ambitious and prophetic." (Horizons) "At the heart of this book, Hoover provides a careful study of a Midwestern parish transformed by immigration and the movement of Latina/os beyond the Southwest. . . . [A] welcomed contribution to a multifaceted problem that deserves further action and research." (Choice)