Beschreibung:
Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through the examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.
Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through this examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.
1 Acknowledgments
2 Dedication
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Rise of a Parochial School System
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: "The Immaculate": One School's Experience
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Urban Exodus: Depopulation and Urban Parish Schools
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Demographic Change and Urban Parish Schools
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Out of These Ashes: Vatican II and Catholic Identity
Chapter 9 Chapter 7: A House Divided: Conclusions
10 Epilogue
11 Bibliography