Conscience First, Tradition Second

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Conscience First, Tradition Second......Page 2 CONTENTS......Page 7 LIST OF TABLES......Page 1 FOREWORD......Page 8 PREFACE......Page 11 INTRODUCTION......Page 13 Chapter Outline......Page 21 PART I......Page 24 1 From Ghetto to Suburbs: The Decline of Devotional Catholicism......Page 25 Joseph Fichter......Page 28 Will Herberg......Page 30 Gerhard Lenski......Page 31 A Historian's Interpretation......Page 32 A Theoretical Focus......Page 36 Threads Unravel: Vatican II and Humanae Vitae......Page 43 Young Catholics in the 1970s: The Rise of Theological Individualism......Page 44 Catholics in the 1980s......Page 46 Catholics as "Less Intensely Religious"......Page 47 Summary......Page 50 Bishops and "Prophetic Challenges"......Page 51 Letters on War and Peace and on the Economy......Page 52 Commentary......Page 54 PART II......Page 58 Introduction......Page 59 A Historical Context......Page 60 Recent Studies of Catholic High Schools......Page 61 Summary......Page 65 St. Martin's High School: A Description......Page 68 Overall Summary (Frequencies)......Page 72 Background Characteristics......Page 73 Trends in Major Dependent Variables......Page 74 Social and Personal Orientations: Bivariate Analysis......Page 80 Findings......Page 83 Background Variables: A Commentary......Page 86 Variable Relationships: Regression Analysis......Page 87 A Note on the Classes of 1987 to 1989......Page 92 Social Consciousness......Page 96 Personal Morality......Page 99 Personal Religiosity......Page 101 Students and Teachers......Page 103 Authority......Page 107 Religious Individualism: An Excursus......Page 110 Formation of Conscience: Comments of St. Martin's Seniors......Page 112 The Theology Teachers......Page 114 Commentary......Page 120 Seniors' Views of "Being Catholic": Portraits of Identity......Page 124 Response Categories......Page 125 The Alienated......Page 126 The Doubters......Page 127 The Selectors......Page 128 Personal Growth......Page 130 Conclusion......Page 131 5 "People Nowadays Put Religion on the Back Burner": St. Martin's Graduates in Their Late Twenties......Page 135 Church Attendance......Page 138 Confession......Page 141 Sureness of Religious Beliefs......Page 142 Sociomoral Attitudes......Page 143 "Volunteer" Faith Descriptions......Page 146 Summary......Page 160 CONCLUSION......Page 163 Variables, Coding, and Frequencies......Page 171 Independent Variable Impact on Two Social Sensitivity Measures by Two Time Periods (N = 1750)......Page 174 Index to Tables:......Page 178 Introduction......Page 204 Chapter 1, From Ghetto to Suburbs......Page 205 Chapter 2. "According to My Conscience"......Page 206 Chapter 3. Social Class and Social Viewpoints......Page 208 Chapter 4. "Selling More Than Telling"......Page 211 Conclusion......Page 212 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 214 L......Page 219 Y......Page 220 H......Page 221 V......Page 222