Closing chapters
Subtitle: urban change, religious reform, and the decline of Youngstown's Catholic elementary schools, 1960-2006
By: Thomas G. Welsh
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780739165942; 9780739165966
Subjects: Catholics; Religious identity; Catholic elementary schools; EDUCATION / Elementary; RELIGION / Christian Education / Children & Youth; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic; Urban education; History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Description: "Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through the examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; title: Dedication; title: Chapter 1: Introduction; title: Chapter 2: Rise of a Parochial School System; title: Chapter 3: "The Immaculate": One School's Experience; title: Chapter 4: Urban Exodus: Depopulation and Urban Parish Schools; title: Chapter 5: Demographic Change and Urban Parish Schools; title: Chapter 6: Out of These Ashes: Vatican II and Catholic Identity; title: Chapter 7: A House Divided: Conclusions; title: Epilogue; title: Bibliography.