Foundational Social Ritual Practices of Parish Life: Eating, Worshipping, and Hanging Out Together (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527576438)

This book highlights for professional parish ministers the vital importance of the foundational or pre-communal aspects that make a parish community healthy and strong. It provides not a sociology of the parish, but a sociology of the first ingredients that go into making a parish community. It is not, therefore, a book explaining or analyzing the organizational dimensions or social structures that make-up a parish, such as the roles and statuses needed for a parish to function. Rather, the book examines the formation of relationships in the first place within the context of a parish and how such relationships might be maintained over time. Upward social mobility is a deterrent to forming such relationships, while social ritual practices, such as eating together, are a means for establishing and sustaining parish relationships. The book is theoretically grounded in the work of Emile Durkheim who discusses in minute detail the ingredients of social solidarity and community life in his classic work The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

Author: Michael J. McCallion
ISBN-10: 1527576434
ISBN-13: 9781527576438
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2022
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover