{"product_id":"foundational-social-ritual-practices-of-michael-j-mccallion-9781527576438","title":"Foundational Social Ritual Practices of Parish Life: Eating, Worshipping, and Hanging Out Together","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael J. McCallion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1527576434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781527576438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge Scholars Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael J. McCallion","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48518824395007,"sku":"9781527576438","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87eaf520-897b-490a-8c5a-c0d11f97f778.jpg?v=1778735788","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foundational-social-ritual-practices-of-michael-j-mccallion-9781527576438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}