The Last Half-Century

...John Bowen, Conference Coordinator condition of human .collectivities which, Endicott College, Beverly, Mass...

...tion of a draft, this master trend seems to OCT...

...Ted Ward, Institute for In- Mission Today...

...Chapter These chapters emerged from a set of patterns within which it takes place...

...Seminars for theological based on norms, customs, and morals, students, co-sponsored by 1, i.e., external power rather than interseminaries...

...What has diminished is party loyW RMNG ABOUT America is a verita- community...

...middle ages...

...Kandy, but very little is said about them symbolic vehicles...

...and rationale, and declining academic en- gious differences have declined, the 1970s, after the war in Southeast Asia, rollments translate into fewer opportuni- sense of a country tearing apart has acturacial strife internally, and colossal ties for teachers and researchers...

...The need for order is seen as con- come even more important in some sonant with the prospects for democratic cases...

...Other tendenToward Creative Structures \ vision-hiQadeninq I cies deserve mention, which go considand Strategies for World Mis- erably beyond the social order model...

...If it does not provide Johannes Aagaard, Aarhus Uni-: REGISTRATION: $25 per course, varsity, Denmark...

...Walter Hollenweger, posture...

...After frequent ecclesiastical inves- France, two in Belgium, one...

...President of : with room and meats additional...

...These attract people to the ages...

...future too of Murphy's Vicar...

...16-19 Latin America Realities for and conscription...

...As a result, differentiated social stratification includrestated rather than resolved...

...Wilbert Shenk, Overseas ° E19II1-Ses beginning Secretary, Mennonite Board of Fall, 1919 ~l For example, the decline of American Missions...

...Social science writing became view"), military participation, or the norms or institutional arrangements on 3 August 1979: 443 which to base social control and the or- American citizenry," is not only debata- The second master tendency outlined dering of an advanced industrial society...

...The more serious writings in grants approved, etc...

...give a comprehensive survey of STUDY CENTER Bulletin ofmiss +~ary Research Still, this is a major sociological conthe contemporary world mission...

...What one sociological efforts, the book un- is the moral context of party identificachooses to write about says much about abashedly discusses the significant is- tion, not the legitimacy of the American an author...

...While A question like that was impossible after Robinson's The Cardinal...

...4-7 i, with thesis cies following Vietnam...

...The sharp inWoodstock Theological Center...

...the sort of rank order of priorities or International Association for causal explanations one would have Mission Studies...

...for cline of interest and pressure groups is a and Sister Francine Zeller...

...2 Roman Catholics and Protes- be part of a passing tactic in military tant Evangelicals in Mission: history, and not at all a major tendency Bridges to Understandin . Thomas F. Stransky, C. ST, forging a new American society...

...routine of his daily life...

...Unlike most mainline alty...

...It appears to be a temporary for Catholics...

...from conformity to general norms...

...The second kind is called both a signifier and a signified, and in the "ideas, norms, values symbols and other the archaic pilgrimage which is ambigu- case of religious images, it has also sevconstructs" which are expressed in ac- ous, ancient and syncretic...

...sion...

...but the study of interestrationist mood led commentators like American sociologist...

...They began as local devo- Catholics the "Age of Mary," and the The anthropologist then is researching tions, increased in popularity, and even- authors point out that between 1830 and the total "pilgrimage system" which is tually attracted an international audi- 1933 Our Lady appeared at five places in perceived aS a kind of organism- ence...

...12-15 :NAME Missionary Preaching: The :ADDRESS profound way and in a style amenable to Gospel in Context...

...14-18 litigation as a basis of decision making Global Perspectives on Christian Witness...

...7-11 and Third World capitalism...

...01915 (617) 927-0585 3 August 1979: 445...

...In a nutshell, what is under question ble Rorschach test...

...Members of other reliVictor and Edith Tamer sense of belonging to the pilgrim group,a gions would be accepted only as tourists, Columbia University Press, $15, 281 pp...

...The Marian shrines The introductory chapter describes the rick's Purgatory in County Donegal, the also provide examples of the contrast beevolution of ancient pilgrimage from a shrine of an archaic pilgrimage in Lough tween the iconophobia of people who relatively simple, informal procedure Derg which is thought to have been a want to destroy the holy images, and the which was outside the patrimonial feudal sacred spot even before the advent of iconophilia of pious persons who want to structure...

...2-5 OCT...

...One reason for group politics, which is the key to the Henry Commager and Max Lerner, that prominence is his willingness and expansion of welfare expenditures and among others, to speak of American cul- capacity to confront social systems as a reallocation of resources, does not quite ture and American civilization as high- whole and not just in parts...

...it saffivas ments is a function of isolationist tendenDEC...

...honoring Mary, flourished in the high The 19th century has been called by Routine supplanted spontaneity...

...PII Ei I II F Thomas E. Clarke, S. J., tured more dynamically...

...America Mission, San Jose, and increasing demands for the reinstituCosta Rich...

...Certainly it is impossible three catch the film version every so often on and common sense in a world where people removed from Paul VI, the time- late night television...

...protect them...

...21-25 :offer highly relevant courses of study for crossNew Religious Movements as cultural and international ministries, and accommo- seriously reasoned, carefully textured, Challenge to the Churches...

...If the help of works such as this, carefully, the Mexican shrines, with most attention Americans march into the twilight zone it and even reluctantly...

...institutionalized collective ritual...

...That may be the there has been an eclipse of bothsetting for Murphy's novel...

...Obve orr tribution toward the understanding of In a setting that invites reflection and renewal, we American society in the late 1970s...

...tween 400 and 1500 A.D...

...0. S. F., Center for Religious cause and not simply parallel to decline Development...

...the incline of JAN...

...and mores, the mood turned dour and slack, sociology is a discipline in trouble Janowitz tends to feel that the gap besour...

...type of collective enthusiasm underlying or outsiders, but not as pilgrims...

...As it grew larger and more Christianity...

...system...

...Survival be- ciety as a whole...

...Janowitz spends much more time distinguishing between fact and value than with the actual policy implications of soNo exaggeration, no minimization cial science in American context...

...His first master trend: "There is no lives in limbo between the interstices of namely, the rise of a deterrence posture evidence for the depolarization of the this permanent stalemate...

...Chapter three eral levels of meaning: exegetical, operatual pilgrim behavior...

...Communitas liberates people mid-August...

...13-16 Religious Experience: Implica- Even from a social order perspective, tions for Personal Growth, his master trends might have been strucCommunity, and Mission...

...In the 1960s...

...Still it is a novel that is lesser than coercion, and finally, the social consedulgences...

...sociology is in a state of crisis: orienta- groups confront political parties...

...Corvo's and more like Henry Morton quences of social science analysis...

...The pilgrim himself may.be seen as "half a tourist" because even the secular Are you planning a tourist seeks a "mode of communitas" that is not available in the structured CONFERENCE...

...the network of secular mechanisms or devout contemporary Catholics...

...frequent it came under ecclesiastical con- Chapter five deals with the third type, The whole of chapter six continues the trol...

...11 Send application and more information CW hoped for, it at least poses issues in a FEB...

...NOV...

...Dkvcw...

...His country is often discussed in a hygienic opponents, while the rest of the society third master tendency is most dubious: way...

...capitalism and the rise of European and JAN...

...While ally grown...

...dations with a family atmosphere...

...Why this should be is not changes in American popular manners the public sector has taken up some of the explained...

...It neither exaggerates dor political participation in the United minimizes the complexities of the situa- States has remained stable and has beIrving Louis Horowitz tion...

...It embraces the "en- tigation, they were generally considered and one in Portugal..They do not omit the tire complex of behavior focused on the theologically orthodox...

...In the further discussion of modern Joseph H. Fichter Four categories of pilgrimages are Marian pilgrimages in chapter four, the identified, the first of which is termed Turners explain their "theory of imTHIS is an anthropological study of re- prototypical...

...Pat- tional and positional...

...and tightly argued...

...Jimman A. Horner, Auoc...

...This book is destined to beCommonweal: 444 come part of the ongoing discussion will not be quietly or silently, but with two, the longest in the book, centers on about the future of American society...

...Thus, the "organism" The fourth type is the modern, or shrines, but they are careful to give the comprises all the sacred aspects of the post-tridentine, pilgrimage which is ex- historical and theological explanations pilgrimage, while the "environment" is clusively Marian and continues to attract for the justification of Marian devotions...

...30-NOV...

...to Our Lady of Guadalupe...

...ble, but concludes with the notion of is the move toward a more complex and The themes of the book are however chronic political stalemate...

...the symbols and ceremonials be- the medieval pilgrimage, originating be- description of modern, or "postcame more elaborate and more regulated...

...The authors describe also in some detail the Mexican devotion to a rival virgin, Our Lady of On the road the Remedies...

...decline of manpower commitProfessor of Mission, University of Birmingham, England...

...the sharp increase NOV...

...GMald H. Anderson...

...W. Dayton breakdown of the voluntary army notion, ternational Studies, Michigan Roberts, Vice-President, Latin State University...

...The auWashington Theological Union . thor's own involvement in a policy NOV 6-9 ~; framework based on hardware and volunMission Patterns or Mission tarism, may be a well-intentioned effort Perceptions in the Book of Acts...

...While A sense of impending doom and catas- tions are fragmented without scientific regional, occupational, racial, and relitrophe hardly surfaced...

...in Ireland environment field...

...Durkheimian solidarity...

...States...

...and Appendix B are devoted to St...

...In the 1950s a strong celeb- but it is also a book by a prominent carefully done...

...It WRTIE OR TELEPHONE is not structured, nor is it a continuing Mr...

...legends and fables connected with the sacred shrine...

...These are simply religious paintligious Christian peregrinology central locations of established religions: ings, icons, mosaics and statues, which which intends to lay focus on abstract Rome, Jerusalem, Mecca, Benares, are to be taken as conventional signs, or culture rather than on concrete behavior...

...Walsingham industrial," Marian pilgrimages, discusGoing on pilgrimage then shifted from a in England, Loreto in Italy, Compostela sing the apparitions, miracles and mesvoluntary individual "good work" to an in Spain, Chartres in France, all of them sages of Lourdes, Fatima and La Salette...

...requiring a volunteer armed force, increased hardware capabilities, and away from military service based on land war OCT...

...problematic as a master trend of our . / times...

...No one reads putting forth the most noble aspects of 1962, if not even before-or so I prefer to The Cardinal nowadays, but you do the discipline-as a paragon of reason believe...

...Paul S. Rees, Editor-at- to civilianize the military, but remains Large, WORLD VISION Magazine...

...The Last Half-Century outlines some THE LAST HALF-CEIITURY equivocal: neither a forecast of eternal extremely important trends within SOCIETAL CHANGE AND POLITICS IN progress nor total collapse seemed en- American society and does so without the AMERICA tirely credible...

...26-30 in hardware is a function of ideological Charismatic Renewal in the 'in the Third World: Some Lessons for isolationism rather than a firm deterrence Mission...

...Suddenly books with pessimistic by whatever indicators one selects: fig- tween economic facts and political sentitles (The Dying of the Light, and The ures in graduate departments, new fac- timent partially results from the militarTwilight of Capitalism) began to appear, ulty appointments, books published, ization of American society and the buheralding the impending doom of Ameri- numbers of dissertations in progress, reaucratization of its political system...

...Given the current Your Furlough: Time Off to Tool Up...

...ness" that occurs among people on pil- Excellent conference facilities available each year mid-June through grimage...

...It is JAN...

...What valves political participation, social stratifica- United States emphasizes short-term ishave to be turned on and off in the politi- tion, the link between participation and sues and conforms to a mold of adversacal process to create a viable sense of stratification ("a social control point of rial relations without corresponding order...

...The seamier side of the or simply results from carefully weighted region, and primordial attachments...

...cates expectations no less than intelli- This is a book about American society, The section on social stratification is gence...

...miss 4 L in party identification...

...can society...

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...The symbol involves Culture .in, this sense disembodies the in this book...

...Samuel an audience of concerned citizens no less Kamaleson, Vice-President-at- :CITY STATE ZIP Large, World Vision Interna- :COUNTRY than an elite group of political tional sociologists...

...Other areas Your Holiness planning, like your a good book, the more so its being a first in this mosaic are bureaucratic institupredecessors of sainted memory, novel...

...The book is going to be a huge tions, resident communities, mass media to nourish the souls of the faithful success, and it will make a whopping big and mass persuasion, law and legitimate of the Church by offering new in- movie...

...Janowitz's book is This is summarized in a richly textured this decade have tended, to avoid ex- therefore a welcome event, if only as a and carefully reasoned discussion of the tremes of optimism or pessimism in favor reassertion of the sociological claim to transformation of authority from ownof what might be called an accounting provide a special vision of American so- ership to management, and from topledger imagery of society...

...Each week-is a OVERSEAS MINISTRY The va separate unit, but together they nalized authority...

...exaggerations common in popular literaThis book is a serious effort to perform ture, and in some current sociology as Morris Janowitz a middle range social audit of the United well...

...Janowitz makes it quite clear that University of Chicago, $25, 583 pp...

...down leadership to middle-range interaccomes a cost-benefit equation: How Much of the book is taken up with tion...

...Despite differences in orii gin and history, both shrines are symbols IMAGE AN) PILi8IMACE IN after all, have to "operate in an orderly of communitas for Mexicans-but only CJRUT= CULTURE fashion...

...Janowitz believes the bureaucratic much gross national product for how creating an American vertical mosaic: system of industrial relations in the much social tranquility...

...The authors Introduce your Church, Club or Business Organization to the beauty of make much of communitas, which is a the Endicott College campus with its playing fields, woods and ocean kind of spontaneous bond of "together- beaches...

...The social Janowitz leaves us unsure whether the ing a clearer division of labor as well as control approach reveals its ideological system's legitimacy has remained intact ascriptive continuities based on age, sex, disposition...

...Selecting the big theme indi- sues...

...The field of address the extent to which interest water marks in the history of humanity...