TY  - GEN
N2  - The history of religious life in the Catholic Church of the US is filled with change: periods of growth and decline, changes of ministries, and differences in the ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds of those who joined them. Yet as the numbers of new members diminish, some say that the future of religious life is in jeopardy. What is the state of religious life in the US today? Which institutes are increasing in number and which are decreasing or ceasing to exist? From what ethnic and socioeconomic populations are they drawing their members? What new religious institutes are being founded and how successful are they? What influences a young person to consider religious life today? How are religious from other countries shaping religious life as they come to the US to minister? Many of these questions are addressed by data from CARA studies of religious life conducted over the last ten years.
AB  - The history of religious life in the Catholic Church of the US is filled with change: periods of growth and decline, changes of ministries, and differences in the ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds of those who joined them. Yet as the numbers of new members diminish, some say that the future of religious life is in jeopardy. What is the state of religious life in the US today? Which institutes are increasing in number and which are decreasing or ceasing to exist? From what ethnic and socioeconomic populations are they drawing their members? What new religious institutes are being founded and how successful are they? What influences a young person to consider religious life today? How are religious from other countries shaping religious life as they come to the US to minister? Many of these questions are addressed by data from CARA studies of religious life conducted over the last ten years.
T1  - Pathways to religious life /
AU  - Gaunt, Thomas P.,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - BX2505
ID  - 844608
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders
KW  - Monastic and religious life.
KW  - Vocation
SN  - 9780190878184
TI  - Pathways to religious life /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190878153.001.0001
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190878153.001.0001
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