1st Edition
The Changing Parish A Study of Parishes, Priests, and Parishioners After Vatican II
1. Introduction: The Changing Parish 2. The Changing Social and Religious Context 3. The Parish in Comparative Perspective 4. The Quest for Community 5. Parish Liturgies 6. The Priest and Parish Leadership 7. The Everyday Lives of Priests in Parishes 8. The Compliance of Parishioners 9. Persistence and Change in a Time of Transition
Biography
Michael P. Hornsby-Smith is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. He has been researching post-war changes in English Catholicism since the early 1970s.
Review of the first publication:
‘…carefully argued, untendentious and extremely well informed on the internal debates of the Church.’
— Bryan Wilson, All Souls College, Oxford
