Segmented Secrecy as Catholic Ecclesial Practice: The Case of Gay Priests

Evaluating the Moral Framing of Disaffiliation: Sociological and Pastoral Perspectives on the Rise of the “Nones”

Practical Theology in the United States

Power in the Parish

Power Dynamics in Catholic Parishes Shared by Latinos

I Am Not a Sociologist: Reflections on Sociological Research in Theology

A Place for Communion

The "Ownership of Shared Sacred Space: Churches and Ethnic and Racial Groups in US Catholicism"

No Favoritism: Effective Collaborative Leadership Practices in Multicultural Parishes

Hispanic Ministry and Parish Life

From Bonaventure to BustedHalo®: Ministry Beyond the Church Walls

Lost and Found: Immigrant Conversion Stories, the New Evangelization, and Parish Life

Faith from Nowhere: The Liquid Catholicism of Busted Halo

Dorothy Day: The Seeker Saint

Generations and Culture: The Future of Parish Life in the United States

Immigration and Faith: Cultural, Biblical, and Theological Narratives

The Shared Parish: Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism

This edited volume explores urgent matters in Hispanic ministry today, including looking at parish life, immigration, technology, and continuing transnational connections to Latin America.

Hispanic Ministry in the 21st Century: Urgent Matters

American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism (Catholic Practice in North America)

Comfort: An Atlas for the Body and Soul

Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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Loyola Marymount University

Supervised Pastoral Field Education

Foundations of Pastoral Theology

Migration and the Border: Context, Theologies, and Pastoral Responses

"The Nones": Religious Disaffiliation

Faith and Culture in Pastoral Ministry

Church and Mission

Introduction to Theology

Theologies of Cultural Diversity

American Catholicism

Ministry and Pastoral Leadership

Search of a Way: Spirituality, Faith, and Culture

Communion Ecclesiology in a Culturally Diverse World

Special Studies: Faith and Culture

Brett C. Hoover. Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Pastoral and Practical Theology at LMU and Associate Chair for Graduate Education for the Theological Studies department. Dr. Hoover focuses on how Christian life, practice, and ministry shape and are shaped by both social and cultural context as well as interpretations of the Christian (especially Roman Catholic) tradition. He teaches courses on ministry, immigration, faith and culture, and US Catholicism. Dr. Hoover also serves the Church by teaching pastoral leaders locally and around the country, especially about ministry in culturally diverse parishes, the focus of much of his recent research. He is the author of several books and articles, including the forthcoming IMMIGRATION AND FAITH: CULTURAL, BIBLICAL, AND THEOLOGICAL NARRATIVES (Paulist, July 2021). He regular consults with parishes and offers workshops for various organizations. He co-founded the Catholic seeker website, BustedHalo.com, and he currently serves on the board of LMU's Center for Religion and Spirituality. Before coming to LMU in 2011, he taught graduate students in ministry at the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago, and in the various seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

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