NDLI: Self-Identified Traditional, Moderate, and Liberal Catholics: Movement-Based Identities or Something Else?

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Author	Starks, Brian
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Through qualitative analyses of 50 in-depth interviews with Catholics in three Midwestern cities, I investigate the role of religious movement organizations in the formation of Catholic identities. I find that movement organizations and elites tend to have little direct impact on the formation of Catholic parishioners’ identities in my sample. While movements’ disruptions and interactions with media are useful for generating debate and wider recognition of religious disagreements, my respondents are not usually socialized by nor do they identify with familiar movements when they call themselves traditional, moderate, and liberal. Most are uninterested in and unacquainted with movement organizations and publications. Instead, their religious identification is a form of religious mapping, which reflects their self-understood position vis-à-vis recognized cultural conflicts within the larger religious community. While movements play a limited role, I argue that we should be wary of conceptualizing Catholic identities as products of movement groups or parachurch networks since most Catholic identity-work occurs within families and parishes, as opposed to movements or parachurch organizations.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	32
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01620436
Journal	Qualitative Sociology
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737837
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2008-12-09
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Identity Religious movements Religious self-identification Politicized identities Personality and Social Psychology Interdisciplinary Studies Cross Cultural Psychology Social Sciences Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science

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