Mass Exodus
Mass Exodus
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大规模逃亡
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2019
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S. Bullivant
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In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the prophecy that ‘a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in radiant splendour’. Desiring ‘to impart an ever increasing vigour to the Christian life of the faithful’, the Council Fathers devoted particular attention to the laity, and set in motion a series of sweeping reforms.其中最重要的集中于重塑教会的礼拜仪式。然而，五十多年过去了，统计数据不言而喻——或者说似乎已经说明了一切。在美国，只有 15% 的原始天主教徒表示他们每周参加弥撒；与此同时，35% 的人甚至不再在调查中勾选“天主教徒”。在英国，在天主教徒中，只有 13% 的人仍然每周参加弥撒，37% 的人表示他们“没有宗教信仰”。但这都是梵蒂冈二世及其失控改革的错吗？或者更广泛的社会、文化和道德力量是罪魁祸首？天主教并不是自 20 世纪 60 年代以来唯一遭受严重衰落的基督教团体。如果说有什么不同的话，天主教徒比大多数新教教堂表现出更高的教堂出席率和更好的保留率。如果第二次梵蒂冈会议不是天主教危机的根源，那么它是否可能成为其（相对）成功的秘诀？ 《大规模出走》是对天主教的衰落和脱离的第一次严肃的历史和社会学研究。 Drawing on a wide range of theological, historical, and sociological sources, it also offers a comparative study of secularization across two famously contrasting religious cultures: Britain and the USA.
In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the prophecy that ‘a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in radiant splendour’. Desiring ‘to impart an ever increasing vigour to the Christian life of the faithful’, the Council Fathers devoted particular attention to the laity, and set in motion a series of sweeping reforms. The most significant of these centred on refashioning the Church’s liturgy. Over fifty years on, however, the statistics speak for themselves—or seem to. In America, only 15% of cradle Catholics say that they attend Mass on a weekly basis; meanwhile, 35% no longer even tick the ‘Catholic box’ on surveys. In Britain, of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly, and 37% say they have ‘no religion’. But is this all the fault of Vatican II, and its runaway reforms? Or are wider social, cultural, and moral forces primarily to blame? Catholicism is not the only Christian group to have suffered serious declines since the 1960s. If anything Catholics exhibit higher church attendance, and better retention, than most Protestant churches do. If Vatican II is not the cause of Catholicism’s crisis, might it instead be the secret to its (comparative) success? Mass Exodus is the first serious historical and sociological study of Catholic lapsation and disaffiliation. Drawing on a wide range of theological, historical, and sociological sources, it also offers a comparative study of secularization across two famously contrasting religious cultures: Britain and the USA.