Mary L Gray: 8 books
Out in the Country
Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative...
In Your Face
Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...
by Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
A seminal moment in the study of U.S. Catholic parish life came in the 1980s with the publication of a series of reports from the ground-breaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. These reports are now badly outdated, as Catholic dioceses grapple with new challenges that didn't exist in the...
Word, Liturgy, Charity
The Diaconate in the U.S. Catholic Church, 1968–2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the restoration of the diaconate as a permanent and stable order of ministry in the United States, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University undertook a contemporary study of the diaconate in the United States. Building...
Enfleshing Theology
Embodiment, Discipleship, and Politics in the Work of M. Shawn Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Enfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing the fields of Catholic Theology, Black Theology, Womanist Thought, and Semiotics. The book opens with a brief introduction, and then moves to an interview with Copeland,...
Bridging the Gap
The Opportunities and Challenges of International Priests Ministering in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
International priests bring their unique enthusiasm, talents, and pastoral care to parishioners all over the United States. Essential to the pastoral ministry of the Church, they find great joy in their work. But these joys come with challenges, ranging from language barriers to homesickness to...
Mixed Race 3.0
Risk and Reward in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Have you been asked, "what nationality are you" or "what country are you from"?Have you been puzzled when forms tell you to "select only one ethnicity"?Have you been disturbed to hear that you’re the "face of a colorblind future"?If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this book is for...