Fieldwork in Ecclesial Borderlands
Culture, Community, and Belonging in a Multiethnic Boston Parish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11287166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Bigelow Reynolds (0000-0002-0595-7456, Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 225-235 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Exchange (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0166-2740 • E-ISSN: 1572-543X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1572543x-12341527 |
| OpenAlex | W2969157496 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Roman Catholic parishes in the United States are steadily becoming more diverse. This article examines St. Mary of the Angels, a small, urban, economically marginal, highly diverse Roman Catholic parish in Boston, as a case study in the question of how researchers might approach the tension between cultural dynamism and structural stability at the heart of multiethnic parish life. Attending to the ways in which parishioners articulated their decisions to belong to St. Mary’s, I demonstrate how their renegotiation of the relationship between parish, place, and belonging reflects broader dynamics underway in U.S. Catholicism. I propose the metaphor of the ecclesial borderland as lens through which to interpret parishes where multiple cultural subcommunities coexist and converge
Dynamism · Epistemology · Genealogy · Metaphor · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |