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Roman Catholic beliefs in England : customary Catholicism and transformations of religious authority / Michael P. Hornsby-Smith.

This 1991 book makes available an empirical study of the transformations in religious beliefs that have occurred amongst English Catholics. It complements Dr Hornsby-Smith's well received Roman Catholics in England (1987) which provides the social and historical context for this present study....

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Hornsby-Smith, Michael P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > England > History > 20th century.
Catholic Church > England > Teaching office.
Catholic Church.
Catholics > Religious life > England.
Religion and sociology > England > History > 20th century.
England > Social life and customs.
England > Church history > 20th century.
Catholics > Religious life.
Manners and customs.
Religion and sociology.
England.
1900-1999
Church history.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. From identity to commitment
  • beliefs and belonging
  • social and religious context
  • research aims
  • data sources
  • outline of book
  • 2. Varieties of Catholic accounts
  • methodological problems
  • comparative approaches
  • a typology of Catholic accounts
  • consistency, coherence and complexity
  • conclusions
  • II. The Religious Beliefs of English Catholics
  • 3. The everyday lives of lay Catholics
  • an exploratory study
  • the lay vocation
  • coping with everyday dilemmas
  • lay experience of support
  • lay spirituality
  • concluding reflections
  • 4. The religion of core laity
  • introduction
  • the teaching of the Church
  • images of God
  • beliefs and practices
  • social morality
  • personal morality
  • concluding reflections
  • 5. The customary religion of ordinary Catholics
  • introduction
  • customary religion
  • images of God
  • heaven, hell and life after death
  • personal prayer
  • customary and popular Catholicisms
  • III. Transformations of Religious Authority
  • 6. The pope's paradoxical people
  • introduction
  • the pope's visit: a special event
  • the pope's leadership style
  • papal teaching and authority
  • paradoxical Catholics?
  • 7. Core Catholics, conflict and contestation
  • introduction
  • Houtart's analysis of contestation
  • responses to ecclesiastical authority
  • transformations of religious authority
  • 8. Ordinary Catholics and personal morality
  • introduction
  • contraception
  • abortion
  • divorce
  • the loss of clerical authority
  • 9. English Catholics and religious authority
  • Weberian perspectives
  • legal-rational authority
  • traditional authority
  • charismatic authority
  • empirical combinations
  • Etzioni's analysis of compliance
  • concluding reflections
  • 10. Religious pluralism and secularism
  • introduction
  • pluralism of belief
  • pluralism of legitimations of religious authority
  • the secularization of English Catholicism?

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