{"product_id":"millennial-missionaries-katherine-dugan-9780190875961","title":"Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool","description":"Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture. Amid the rise of so-called \"nones,\" though, there has also been a countervailing trend: an increase in religious piety among some millennial Catholics. \u003cbr\u003e The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), which began evangelizing college students on American university campuses in 1998, hires recent college graduates to evangelize college students and promote an attractive and culturally savvy Catholicism. These millennial Catholics have personal relationships with Jesus, attend Mass daily, and know and defend papal teachings, while also being immersed in U.S. popular culture. With their skinny jeans, devotional tattoos, and large-framed glasses, FOCUS missionaries embody a hip, attractive style of Catholicism. They promote a faith that interweaves distinctly Catholic identity with outreach methods of twentieth-century evangelical Protestants and the anxieties of middle-class emerging adulthood. Though this new generation of missionaries lives according to strict gender essentialism prescribed by papal teachings-including the notions that men lead while women follow and that biology dictates gender roles-they also support stay-at-home fatherhood and women earning MBAs.\u003cem\u003e Millennial Missionaries\u003c\/em\u003e examines how these young people navigate their Catholic and American identities in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e Illuminating the ways missionaries are reshaping American Catholic identity, Katherine Dugan explores the contemporary U.S. religious landscape from the perspective of millennials who proudly proclaim \"I am Catholic\"-and devote years of their lives to convincing others to do the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Dugan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190875968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190875961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Katherine Dugan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119398613247,"sku":"9780190875961","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18c443dd-3711-4a66-81dd-97bf20d643d6.jpg?v=1687409138","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/millennial-missionaries-katherine-dugan-9780190875961","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}