04449cam a2200565Mu 4500 ocn891447838 OCoLC 20200709060227.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 140927s2012 xx o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP OCLCO E7B N$T TEF OCLCO YDXCP N$T 9780810883277 electronic bk. 0810883279 electronic bk. (OCoLC)891447838 852150 (N$T) BX1753 .S636 2012 REL 012110 bisacsh REL 070000 bisacsh 261.8088282 N$TA Sharkey, Stephen R. Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching [electronic resource] : Contemporary Theory and Research. Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2012. 1 online resource (311 p.) Catholic Social Thought ; v.6 Description based upon print version of record. Sociology And Catholic Social Teaching; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Contributions from the Society of Catholic Social Scientists; 1. Toward a Catholic Sociological Imagination: Sociologies in the Service of Catholic Social Teaching; 2. Imagined Communions: The Virtual Nation for Virtuous Nations; 3. Beyond the ""Dictatorship of Relativism"": Toward a Sociology of Knowledge, Catholic-Style; 4. Catholic Social Teachings and the Sociology of Deviance; 5. How a Catholic Grounding Can Contribute to the Empirical Social Sciences 6. A Cohort Analysis of Happiness among Young Adults7. Responding to the Challenge of Postmodernism: Potential Grounds for Future Collaboration between Sociology and Catholic Social Thought; Part Two. Contributions from the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Selections from the Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Academy entitled ""Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together,"" Rome, 2008.; 8. Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Participants in the 14th Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences; 9. Address to the Holy Father 10. Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together. Conference Introduction11. Discovering the Relational Character of the Common Good; 12. Education, Subsidiarity, and Solidarity: Past, Present, and Future; Part Three. About the Authors: Personal and Professional Reflections on Doing Sociology to Serve the Church; 13. Margaret S. Archer; 14. Pierpaolo Donati; 15. Patrick Fagan; 16. Anne Hendershott; 17. G. Alexander Ross; 18. Stephen R. Sharkey; 19. D. Paul Sullins; 20. Joseph A. Varacalli; Index Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research offers critical insights into a badly needed alternative vision to the alienation and cynicism that plague our political discourse. Arguing that Catholic social teaching stands as an important morally grounded framework for addressing today's pressing social problems, contributors explore the general principles and specific criteria required for both evaluating and advocating models of social improvement. This anthology is meant for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of sociology or Catholic social thought, as w. Christian sociology -- Catholic church. Church and social problems -- Catholic church. Religion. RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues bisacsh RELIGION / Christianity / General bisacsh Christian sociology Catholic Church. Church and social problems Catholic Church. Electronic books. Print version: Sharkey, Stephen R. Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching : Contemporary Theory and Research Lanham : Scarecrow Press,c2012 9780810882973 Catholic social thought. http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=1791715 Ebook Library http://alltitles.ebrary.com/Doc?id=10938195 ebrary EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=852150 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1791715 ebrary EBRY ebr10938195 EBSCOhost EBSC 852150 YBP Library Services YANK 8582213 02 N$T 55463 55463