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Appendix and Helpful Resources
Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013): a sociological overview
of the Catholic experience in the United States
• Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century by Charles E.
Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mary M. Gray, Jonathan L.
Wiggins, and Fr. Thomas P. Gaunt, SJ (Oxford University
Press, 2017): the most recent overview of parish life
in the United States, including data points on leader-
ship, pastoral administration, cultural diversity, and
parishioner perspectives
• Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and
Gone From the Church (Oxford University Press, 2014),
Souls in Transition: The Religious & Spiritual Lives of
Emerging Adults (Oxford University Press, 2009), and
Soul Searching: The Religious & Spiritual Lives of American
Teenagers (Oxford University Press, 2005) by Christian
Smith: analyses based on longitudinal studies of youth
and young adults in collaboration with the National Study
of Youth and Religion (NSYR)
• After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-
Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion
by Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University Press,
2008): information on the religious engagement of
emerging adults
• Changing Spirituality of Emerging Adults, a project devel-
oped by Dean R. Hoge: a study of the spirituality of
emerging adults; available at http://archives.lib.cua.edu/
findingaid/changspir.cfm
• National Study of Catholic Parishes with Hispanic Ministry
(http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/stm/
pdf/2014/BC-NatlStudyParishesHM-Rep1-201405.pdf)
and Hispanic Ministry in the 21st Century: Urgent Matters,
ed. Hosfmann Ospino, Elsie Miranda, and Brett Hoover
(Convivium Press, 2016): in-depth analysis of Catholic
culture among Hispanic Latinos
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