Tricia C Bruce
Biographic Data
| ID | 254168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tricia C Bruce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tricia C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruce |
| SIGNATURE | BRUCE T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maryville College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6910-2625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lived Catholicism: A Roundtable Discussion
The study of Lived Catholicism seeks to step away from the normative forces of institutional expectations to explore Catholicism as it is found in the practices of daily life. It draws on the foundations of lived religion in recognising the importance of improvisation, negotiation, resistance and subversion in everyday religiosity. It foregrounds the voices and experiences of ordinary people to explore the places of Catholicism in their lives. Ho…
What Happens When We Practice Religion: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life. By Robert Wuthnow
The 2019 H. Paul Douglass Lecture: I Can't Keep Quiet: Engaging with Scholarly Research on Religion
Methodologies used by social scientists grant access to quiet worlds and otherwise hidden truths. Social scientists are akin to strangers, trusted with secrets. The 2019 H. Paul Douglass Lecture proposes that scholars who engage with research on religion ought to listen quietly, but not keep quiet. We can transform the quiet to which we are privy into the collective. I illustrate the imperative to speak research out loud using the case example of…
Efficacy, Distancing, and Reconciling: Religion and Race in Americans' Abortion Attitudes
Religion and race together inform Americans' abortion attitudes, but precisely how remains contradictory and unclear. Presumptions of shared religious or secular "worldviews" dividing abortion opinion mask variation among racially diverse adherents within the same tradition. Theoretical gaps compel a deeper, qualitative exploration of underlying processes. This article uses close analysis of a religiously and racially diverse, ideal-typical subse…
American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism
American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism
Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach , this book displays the forces currently reshaping …
Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics, Edited by Ruth Braunstein, Todd Nicholas Fuist, and Rhys H. Williams
Progressive religious activism exists. Underscoring this basic empirical reality is a prime driver behind a new volume edited by sociologists Ruth Braunstein, Todd Nicholas Fuist, and Rhys H. Williams. Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics is a worthy contribution tackling vexing yet infrequently asked questions: Do religious actors mobilize for left-leaning political outcomes? When? Why? How? To what effect? We …
Getting to Church: Exploring Narratives of Gender and Joining
Jessica M Barron and Rhys H Williams, The Urban Church Imagined: Religion, Race, and Authenticity in the City
A Pope, a People, and a Parish: How Changing Demographics Are Changing Catholic Communities
Decisions
This chapter offers an insider look at how bishops make decisions to establish personal parishes, or not. No formal policy exists to regulate when and why bishops choose to start personal parishes, resulting in a high level of local discretion. Both top-down and grassroots sources influence personal parish outcomes. From the top, documents out of the Vatican and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops introduce personal parishes as one o…
Community
This chapter looks at the implications of personal parishes for building community across difference. It explores how community works within the context American Catholics’ increased mobility, choice, and differentiation. Personal parishes build local religious community upon similarity. They encourage bonding capital. Bridging capital, or links between dissimilar others, arises out of the interconnections among all parishes in a diocese. Parish …
Conclusion
The Conclusion summarizes how personal parishes—defined not by territory but by purpose—enable the Catholic Church to respond institutionally to grassroots change and diversity in American Catholicism. Having considered parishes, boundaries, decisions, difference, fragmentation, and community, the book concludes with a handful of lessons that personal parishes offer for understanding local religion and institutional responses to diversity. Namely…
Difference
Ethnic personal parishes are the most common variety of contemporary personal parishes in the United States. They enable Catholics (usually, Catholics of color) to unify along the lines of shared ethnicity and experience, generating a meaningful parish family. This chapter introduces the idea of the territorial parish as a generalist organization, designed to meet the diverse needs of all in its midst, and that of the personal parish as a named, …
Parish and Place: American Catholicism on the Frontlines of Diversity
The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and Place tells the story of how the largest US religion is responding at the local level to unprecedented cultural, racial, linguistic, ideological, and political diversification among American Catholics. Specifically, it explores bishops’ use of personal parishes—parishes formally established not on the basis of territory, but purpose. Today’s personal …
Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture
Among the explanations posited for child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy is the notion that abusers constitute a few “bad apples” in an otherwise healthy orchard. In writing Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture, Marie Keenan defies such simplistic logic by introducing a complex, multilayered, and multidisciplinary analysis of just how and why clergy sexually offend. The book is a well researc…
In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change
Product Review: The Tailenders
Contested Accommodation on the Meso Level: Discursive Adaptation Within Catholic Charities’ Immigration and Refugee Services
Religious nonprofits operate within a complex organizational environment, responding to the demands of multiple and competing constituencies. Typologies gauging the degree of religiosity of a particular organization must, therefore, be preceded by an examination of discursive adaptations made by organizational actors responding to conflicting priorities. Such a need prompted this ethnographic exploration of one agency's (the Los Angeles Catholic …
Efficacy, Distancing, and Reconciling: Religion and Race in Americans' Abortion Attitudes
Religion and race together inform Americans' abortion attitudes, but precisely how remains contradictory and unclear. Presumptions of shared religious or secular "worldviews" dividing abortion opinion mask variation among racially diverse adherents within the same tradition. Theoretical gaps compel a deeper, qualitative exploration of underlying processes. This article uses close analysis of a religiously and racially diverse, ideal-typical subse…
Contested Accommodation on the Meso Level: Discursive Adaptation Within Catholic Charities’ Immigration and Refugee Services
Religious nonprofits operate within a complex organizational environment, responding to the demands of multiple and competing constituencies. Typologies gauging the degree of religiosity of a particular organization must, therefore, be preceded by an examination of discursive adaptations made by organizational actors responding to conflicting priorities. Such a need prompted this ethnographic exploration of one agency's (the Los Angeles Catholic …
Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture
Among the explanations posited for child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy is the notion that abusers constitute a few “bad apples” in an otherwise healthy orchard. In writing Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture, Marie Keenan defies such simplistic logic by introducing a complex, multilayered, and multidisciplinary analysis of just how and why clergy sexually offend. The book is a well researc…
Contested Accommodation on the Meso Level: Discursive Adaptation Within Catholic Charities’ Immigration and Refugee Services
Religious nonprofits operate within a complex organizational environment, responding to the demands of multiple and competing constituencies. Typologies gauging the degree of religiosity of a particular organization must, therefore, be preceded by an examination of discursive adaptations made by organizational actors responding to conflicting priorities. Such a need prompted this ethnographic exploration of one agency's (the Los Angeles Catholic …
Product Review: The Tailenders
In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change
Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture
Among the explanations posited for child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy is the notion that abusers constitute a few “bad apples” in an otherwise healthy orchard. In writing Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture, Marie Keenan defies such simplistic logic by introducing a complex, multilayered, and multidisciplinary analysis of just how and why clergy sexually offend. The book is a well researc…
Decisions
This chapter offers an insider look at how bishops make decisions to establish personal parishes, or not. No formal policy exists to regulate when and why bishops choose to start personal parishes, resulting in a high level of local discretion. Both top-down and grassroots sources influence personal parish outcomes. From the top, documents out of the Vatican and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops introduce personal parishes as one o…
Community
This chapter looks at the implications of personal parishes for building community across difference. It explores how community works within the context American Catholics’ increased mobility, choice, and differentiation. Personal parishes build local religious community upon similarity. They encourage bonding capital. Bridging capital, or links between dissimilar others, arises out of the interconnections among all parishes in a diocese. Parish …
Conclusion
The Conclusion summarizes how personal parishes—defined not by territory but by purpose—enable the Catholic Church to respond institutionally to grassroots change and diversity in American Catholicism. Having considered parishes, boundaries, decisions, difference, fragmentation, and community, the book concludes with a handful of lessons that personal parishes offer for understanding local religion and institutional responses to diversity. Namely…
Difference
Ethnic personal parishes are the most common variety of contemporary personal parishes in the United States. They enable Catholics (usually, Catholics of color) to unify along the lines of shared ethnicity and experience, generating a meaningful parish family. This chapter introduces the idea of the territorial parish as a generalist organization, designed to meet the diverse needs of all in its midst, and that of the personal parish as a named, …
Parish and Place: American Catholicism on the Frontlines of Diversity
The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and Place tells the story of how the largest US religion is responding at the local level to unprecedented cultural, racial, linguistic, ideological, and political diversification among American Catholics. Specifically, it explores bishops’ use of personal parishes—parishes formally established not on the basis of territory, but purpose. Today’s personal …
A Pope, a People, and a Parish: How Changing Demographics Are Changing Catholic Communities
American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism
American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism
Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach , this book displays the forces currently reshaping …
Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics, Edited by Ruth Braunstein, Todd Nicholas Fuist, and Rhys H. Williams
Progressive religious activism exists. Underscoring this basic empirical reality is a prime driver behind a new volume edited by sociologists Ruth Braunstein, Todd Nicholas Fuist, and Rhys H. Williams. Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics is a worthy contribution tackling vexing yet infrequently asked questions: Do religious actors mobilize for left-leaning political outcomes? When? Why? How? To what effect? We …
Getting to Church: Exploring Narratives of Gender and Joining
Jessica M Barron and Rhys H Williams, The Urban Church Imagined: Religion, Race, and Authenticity in the City
The 2019 H. Paul Douglass Lecture: I Can't Keep Quiet: Engaging with Scholarly Research on Religion
Methodologies used by social scientists grant access to quiet worlds and otherwise hidden truths. Social scientists are akin to strangers, trusted with secrets. The 2019 H. Paul Douglass Lecture proposes that scholars who engage with research on religion ought to listen quietly, but not keep quiet. We can transform the quiet to which we are privy into the collective. I illustrate the imperative to speak research out loud using the case example of…
Efficacy, Distancing, and Reconciling: Religion and Race in Americans' Abortion Attitudes
Religion and race together inform Americans' abortion attitudes, but precisely how remains contradictory and unclear. Presumptions of shared religious or secular "worldviews" dividing abortion opinion mask variation among racially diverse adherents within the same tradition. Theoretical gaps compel a deeper, qualitative exploration of underlying processes. This article uses close analysis of a religiously and racially diverse, ideal-typical subse…
What Happens When We Practice Religion: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life. By Robert Wuthnow
Lived Catholicism: A Roundtable Discussion
The study of Lived Catholicism seeks to step away from the normative forces of institutional expectations to explore Catholicism as it is found in the practices of daily life. It draws on the foundations of lived religion in recognising the importance of improvisation, negotiation, resistance and subversion in everyday religiosity. It foregrounds the voices and experiences of ordinary people to explore the places of Catholicism in their lives. Ho…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (6 works) · Social science (6 works)