Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion ― The Changing Faces of Catholicism - National Processes and Central, Local and Institutional Strategies

This volume explores some of the strategies employed by the Catholic Church as a whole to address problems of the global era, in particular the responses and resistance efforts undertaken in a bid to counteract the secularization crisis in both Europe and the Americas, through spiritual writers, World Youth Days and Catholic education.

Solange Lefebvre, Universite de Montreal, is Professor of Religious Studies. Her publications include the edited volume Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: Analysis, Reception and Challenges (Routledge, 2017).

Alfonso Perez-Agote, Complutense University of Madrid, is Professor of Sociology. His publications include Cambio religioso en Espana: los avatares de la secularizacion (Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas, Madrid, 2012), The Intimate, Polity and the Catholic Church (coedited with Karel Dobbelaere, Leuven University Press, 2015) and Religion in the Public Sphere: Canadian Case Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2014).

Contributors are: Kevin Ahern, Andrea Althoff, Valerie Aubourg, Tricia C. Bruce, Karel Dobbelaere, Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores, Paul L. Gareau, Ramiro Gomez-Arzapalo, Isabelle Jonveaux, Jean-Francois Laniel, Andrew P. Lynch, Slawomir Mandes, Graham P. McDonough, Wojciech Sadlon, Jesus Antonio Serrano Sanchez, Barbora Spalova, Jakob Egeris Thorsen, Helena Vilaca, Liliane Voye