Spirit's Tether
Subtitle: Family, Work, and Religion among American Catholics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199965793
Subjects: Catholic church, doctrines; Catholic church, united states; Family, united states
Description: Through an examination of parish life together with the faith stories of parishioners, this book reveals how two congregational social processes - the practice of central ecclesial metaphors, and the construction of Catholic identities - matter for the ways in which parishioners work out the routines of marriage, childrearing and work-family balance, as well as to the ways they connect these challenges to the public politics of the family.