Title: Civil society, civic engagement and Catholicism in the U.S. /
Authors: Liedhegener, Antonius.; Kremp, Werner
Publisher: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Catholic Church United States.; Church and social problems Catholic Church; Catholics United States; Christianity and politics Catholic Church; Voluntarism United States; Social action United States; Civil society United States.
Contents: A fresh moment of dialogue: religion and liberalism revisited / John Farina -- Congregations' significance to American civic life / Mark Chaves -- Faith-based initiatives: a new chance or a political threat to American civil society? / Corwin E. Smidt -- Civil society, civic engagement, and religion: findings and research problems in Germany and the U.S. / Frank Adloff -- Catholic civic engagement: recent debates and positions within the Catholic church / Margaret O'Brien Steinfels -- Volunteerism in the land of volunteerism: the American Catholic church / Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J. -- Catholics and civic engagement: empirical findings at the individual level / James D. Davidson, Mark McCormick -- Catholic civic engagement at the local level: the parish and beyond / Meghan Davis, Antonius Liedhegener -- Organizing volunteering? National Catholic organizations and civic engagement / Bryan T. Froehle -- Volunteering as a topic of intercultural learning: experiences from German-American exchange programs / Martin Kaiser -- "CrossingOver": a project supporting the dialogue on the Catholic church and parish life in the United States and Germany / Andreas Henkelmann -- Parish planning processes and Catholic volunteering in the U.S. / Bryan T. Froehle -- State Catholic conferences, local bishops, and volunteer leaders: a pastoral reflection on Catholic legislative advocacy on the Diocesan level / Jeffry Odell Korgen -- Still something special? The recent debate on civil society and religion in the U.S. and the Catholic tradition / Antonius Liedhegener -- The future of Catholic civic engagement / John Farina.