Mass Exodus, Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II by Bullivant, Stephen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Acknowledgements Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1. Looking Foolish

Disaffiliates and Disaffiliation Geographical Focus Post Concilium, Ergo Propter Concilium? Religious Identities Overall Structure

2. The Demographics of Disaffiliation

Retention and Disaffiliation How do Catholics Compare? Religious Practice, Sex, Age Ethnicity and Immigration Conclusion

3. Why They Say They Leave

American ‘Dropouts’ of the Late 1970s Trenton, New Jersey Springfield, Illinois Portsmouth, England Once Catholic, Always Catholic? Conclusion

4. The Night Before

The Post-War Boom Parochial Concerns ‘It is Impossible to Believe on Our Own’ Creds and Quarant’ore Black Boxes and Golden Arches Britain: ‘The Lost and Strayed’ America: ‘On the Brink’ Conclusion

5. Gaudium et spes, luctus et angor

A Council for the New Evangelization ‘Pastorally Efficacious to the Fullest Degree’ Permanent Revolution Choosing One or the Other ‘Like Everyone Else’ The Change that Didn’t Conclusion

6. The Morning After

‘The Results have been Quite Different from those Anticipated’ The Next Generation ‘To Whom Would we Go?’ Conclusion

7. Unto the Third and Fourth Generations

‘Ashamed to be a Catholic’ ‘Worse than 2002’ ‘God has no Grandchildren’ The Rise of the Nones Conclusion

Epilogue: Did the Council Fail?

Post ET Propter Objections ‘Slippery Road with no Guarantees’

Appendix: Mass Attendance Statistics for England and Wales, Scotland, and Selected US Dioceses (1958–2017) Bibliography Index