Politics of Spirituality: Study of a Renewal Process in an English Diocese, 1988-1993

<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>This project investigated a RENEW programme, undertaken at a particular English Roman Catholic Diocese ('Downlands'). RENEW was a diocesan-wide parish-based pastoral programme, originally developed in the United States. The project's concerns were the ways in which the renewal of spiritualities were promoted and controlled within the Roman Catholic Church. The Diocese was studied for more than five years, from 1988. As well as being a case study of a process undertaken in a specific English diocese in the late twentieth century, it also examined the process of renewal in the Roman Catholic Church, a quarter of a century after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), and investigated the clerical control of cultures of spirituality within Catholicism itself.<B>Main Topics</B>:<br>Main topics include: Catholicism; Catholics; Christianity; dioceses; religion; religious belief; religious behaviour; religious institutions; religious practice; attitude change; resistance to change; religious publications; and public attitudes