Closing Chapters
Urban Change, Religious Reform, and the Decline of Youngstown's Catholic Elementary Schools, 1960-2006
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Youth Ministries, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Elementary, Denominations, Catholic, Catholicism
| Author: | Thomas G. Welsh | ISBN: | 9780739165966 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | December 16, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Thomas G. Welsh |
| ISBN: | 9780739165966 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | December 16, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
