Buy BBC products from the BBC Shop.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Category Focus: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Roman Catholicism |
||
|
****Hyperlinked titles will take you to our copy on sale or prebuilt searches of copies on sale**** Useful Links: Titles to Look Out For: |
|
Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay Or try Biblio
|
About this book: For some time, there has been a need for a scientific study of the pattern of Catholic life in the modern urban environment. This is one of the few studies of this nature to have appeared in this country. The author examines the Irish immigrant community from the time of the Famine onwards. He studies, from an historical and sociological viewpoint, its assimilation into the larger 'host' society and its influence in creating the parochial structures now typical in this country. If the book's conclusions bring the reader to a more critical awareness of present [1960s] of Catholic life, it is because the author, a responsible and experienced sociologist, has laid a solid scholarly foundation in the main body of the book. The sample urban situation, which John Hickey studies, is that of Cardiff throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The economic, nationalistic and social factors in the life of the immigrant, Catholic population are considered not simply in themselves, but in the light of the prevailing attitudes of the country at the time. A tendency to isolation emerges - a tendency which, in many Catholic institutions, still prevails. How far do some of the basic presuppositions of parish organisation reflect an outdated social system? How true is the allegation that Catholics have inherited a 'ghetto' mentality? 1. Introduction: scope of the study |
|
|
[top] | |
[top] |