American Catholicism studies
authority and power structures
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catholic
Catholic Conscientious Objectors
Catholic Worker
Catholic Worker Movement
charismatic leadership succession analysis
Chrystie Street
Contemporary Society
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ethnographic research methods
Existent Lines
Friday Night Meetings
grassroots social movements
Internal Revenue Service
Itinerant Teacher
Le Sillon
movement
National Welfare Rights Organization
organizational transformation
Religious Congregation
Robert Minor
Roman Catholic Church's Position
Roman Catholic Church’s Position
Saint Joseph's House
Saint Joseph’s House
Service Orientation
sociology of religion
Soup Line
Soup Meal
worker
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138507616
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dorothy Day died recently in New York City. With her death, the Catholic Worker Movement lost the last of its founders and leaders. In this insightful and well-documented study, Aronica answers the question whether and how the Movement has survived beyond the founders. Starting from the notion of charismatic leadership, the author converts the Catholic Worker Movement into a test case for the classical analysis of social organization. Through participant observation, Aronica uncovers and explains the system of power and authority, the process of incorporation and the services provided to the poor by the Catholic Worker Movement. The Movement's paper, the Catholic Worker, was used to help provide a typology of membership categories. The book is more than a study in the transformation of charismatic leadership; it is also a study of the place of radical social thought within American Catholicism. Aronica shows the problems that the church structure has with grass-roots activities. She also illustrates the difficulty that a grass-roots organization has in transforming itself into a functioning bureaucracy. The book adds a new organizational dimension to the growing number of books on social movements. It is well suited for an audience interested in the sociology of religion and for those concerned with a fruitful application of modern ethnographic research to classical frameworks.
