03676nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-54692-1 DE-He213 20251030112001.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240420s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031546921 978-3-031-54692-1 10.1007/978-3-031-54692-1 doi BL60 JHB bicssc JFSR bicssc SOC039000 bisacsh JHB thema JBSR thema Page, Sarah-Jane. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75446 Abortion and Catholicism in Britain [electronic resource] : Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity / by Sarah-Jane Page, Pam Lowe. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 275 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges, 2946-4404 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Abortion in the Public Discourse -- Chapter 3: Attitudes to Abortion -- Chapter 4: Silence versus Voice: The Parish and Abortion -- Chapter 5: Priests and the Pastoral Management of Abortion -- Chapter 6: Abortion Activism and Support -- Chapter 7: Crisis in the Parish? -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. This book details how British Catholic communities view abortion, highlighting the diversity of positions which often contrast with the official line of Catholic Church doctrine. The authors’ extensive qualitative investigation involving various Catholic constituents demonstrates the complex ways attitudes are formed. Based on interviews with priests, Catholic parishioners, anti-abortion activists and Catholics living in close proximity to activism, this book takes a lived religion approach to argue that attitudes and approaches to abortion are nuanced and contextual, with the Catholic concept of individual conscience playing a fundamental role in navigating abortion issues. Ultimately, this investigation helps to explore in much greater depth the increased liberalisation in attitudes among Catholics towards abortion, at a time when Catholic activism opposing abortion is growing, and therefore shines a light on the conflicts that are apparent at the heart of Catholic parishes. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Theology and Religious Studies. . Religion and sociology. 68604 Sex. 66477 Catholic Church. 75021 Knowledge, Sociology of. Sociology of Religion. 68606 Gender Studies. 66478 Catholicism. 75022 Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. Lowe, Pam. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75447 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031546914 Printed edition: 9783031546938 Printed edition: 9783031546945 Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges, 2946-4404 75448 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54692-1 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 59242 59242