{"product_id":"catholic-infrastructures-ethan-copple-9798242102835","title":"Catholic Infrastructures: Essays on Priests, Infrastructure, and the Church in a Digital Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCatholic Infrastructures\u003c\/i\u003e, Ethan Copple examines the often-unseen systems that sustain Catholic life. Drawing on ethnographic research with priests in the American Midwest, comparative observations from Spain and Guatemala, and reflections on the impact of digital technologies, the book argues that Catholicism is not held together by belief alone, but by infrastructures that organize time, authority, ritual, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of this inquiry is the Catholic priesthood. Through close attention to the daily lives of priests, Copple shows how priests function as a form of human infrastructure, enabling sacramental life, maintaining institutional coherence, and mediating between doctrine and lived practice. When priestly infrastructure is strained or absent, Catholic life does not simply disappear. It adapts, fragments, and takes on new forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also considers how digital technologies intersect with these longstanding structures, reshaping parish life, authority, and presence without replacing the embodied work of priests and communities. Rather than offering prescriptions or reforms, \u003ci\u003eCatholic Infrastructures\u003c\/i\u003e provides a framework for understanding how Catholicism persists, changes, and endures through the maintenance and breakdown of its underlying systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume will be of interest to readers in anthropology, religious studies, and Catholic studies, as well as anyone concerned with how institutions function in an increasingly digitally mediated world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ethan Copple\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798242102835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d","brand":"Ethan Copple","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997352407295,"sku":"9798242102835","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/catholic-infrastructures-ethan-copple-9798242102835","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}