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

List of contents

• 1: Looking Foolish


• 2: The Demographics of Disaffiliation


• 3: Why They Say They Leave


• 4: The Night Before


• 5: Gaudium et spes, luctus et angor


• 6: The Morning After


• 7: Unto the Third and Fourth Generations


• Epilogue: Did the Council Fail?


• Appendix


• Bibliography

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Bullivant, Stephen (Professor of Theology and the Bullivant, Stephen (Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion Bullivant, Bullivant Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2019
• EAN: 9780198837947
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883794-7
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; USA, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Apologetics, RELIGION / Christian Theology / History, RELIGION / Atheism, Theology, Christian theology, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Religious issues & debates, United States of America, USA, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Religious issues and debates