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Sacred Callings

By Brian Conway

Sacred Callings

By Brian Conway

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Sacred Callings is an innovative sociological study of cross-national trends in the global Catholic priesthood. Based on a comparative-historical analysis of priesthood trends in Argentina, Malta, Nigeria, and the Philippines during 1950-2010, the monograph investigates how significant developments within the Catholic Church have shaped the evolution of vocations over time.The book introduces and tests a new critical events theory, proposing a four-part framework-ecumenical councils, prophetic stances, sexual scandals, and papal visits-to help explain variation in priesthood trends. It demonstrates how these events operate as cues for religious callings, as well as how they interact with another. Amid a global demographic shift in the Catholic priesthood -marked by declining vocations in Western regions and growing numbers in countries such as Nigeria-Sacred Callings provides a timely analysis of an important dynamic in the contemporary Church. In doing so, it offers fresh theoretical and empirical insights into the role of short-term events in shaping religious change in modern societies.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2025-07-23
Publication Date:
2025-07-23
Publisher:
Helsinki University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9523691279
ISBN13:
9789523691278
Weight:
522 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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