Bøker av Andrew M. Greeley

There's teenaged Rosemarie, coming to grips with the evil of the twentieth century. Peggy, whose widowhood plunges her into the cold of loneliness. Rita, whose marriage is rich and fulfilling - except at its core. Laura, torn between three lovers, one of them a seminarian. Julie, haunted by something that happened long ago.

This book responds with passion and skill to the growing concerns of spiritual seekers and teachers of the Catholic faith.

Examines the parables told by Jesus in search of a better understanding of the man and his message. This collection of homilies reveals a Jesus whose simple parables carry profound lessons about the Kingdom of Heaven. It also considers topics such as the significance of Jesus's Jewish roots, "The Da Vinci Code", and "The Passion of the Christ".

Almost all of America's private colleges and universities started out as denominational schools, but connections with sponsoring churches gradually attenuated over the last century

The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies

The number of minority students, many of them not Catholic, who have enrolled in Catholic secondary schools is substantial

Most sociologists of religion describe a general decline in religious faith and practice in Europe over the last two centuries

This work engages the complexities of contemporary Europe to present a nuanced picture of religious faith rising, declining, or remaining stable. While challenging the secularisation model, Greeley's approach is not polemical.

Although conservative opinion suggests Hollywood is anti-religion, this work finds evidence to the contrary. Offering an exercise in urban anthropology, it argues that the religious imagination is irrepressible and that this is reflected in America's best-known example of popular culture: movies.

This study examines why Catholic schools achieve success with students who are disadvantaged by race, the fact that their parents did not attend college, and by their own previous educational experiences. It argues that this is because the schools are simply doing what they have always done.

Almost all of America's private colleges and universities started out as denominational schools, but connections with sponsoring churches gradually attenuated over the last century

What might one expect to learn from a probability sample study of the Archdiocese of Chicago? Can one form a national portrait of Catholics in the United States from data about Chicago? Certainly, Chicago is unique in its judgments about its clergy

Religion as Poetry continues in the grand tradition of the sociology of religion pioneered by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons, among other giants in intellectual history

Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement

Many observers assume that America is a far less religious nation than it was 40 years ago, but according to Greeley, this is untrue. Citing surveys conducted over the past half-century, Greeley concludes that rates of church attendance and membership, prayer, belief in an afterlife, and other measures of religious activity have remained constant.