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Help My Unbelief, Brett C. Hoover Jan 2017

Help My Unbelief, Brett C. Hoover

Brett Hoover

No abstract provided.


Lost And Found: Immigrant Conversion Stories, The New Evangelization, And Parish Life, Brett C. Hoover Jan 2017

Lost And Found: Immigrant Conversion Stories, The New Evangelization, And Parish Life, Brett C. Hoover

Brett Hoover

The author reflects on a conversion narrative that emerged in the context of a yearlong ethnographic study of a Catholic parish in the Midwest. The study was intended to uncover the practices and understandings of parish life in a shared parish, that is, a parish with two or more distinct cultural communities with their own masses and ministries but sharing the same parish facilities. The “lost and found” narrative of conversion that emerged in the parish’s Latino/a community has roots in Latin American manifestations of the new evangelization but has taken particular form here in the United States. It frames …


Blaming The Stranger: Parishes Must Resist The Myth Of The Latino Threat, Brett C. Hoover Jan 2017

Blaming The Stranger: Parishes Must Resist The Myth Of The Latino Threat, Brett C. Hoover

Brett Hoover

No abstract provided.


Virtual Church For Young Adults, Brett C. Hoover, Michael Hayes Jan 2017

Virtual Church For Young Adults, Brett C. Hoover, Michael Hayes

Brett Hoover

No abstract provided.