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Anderson, M. C. (2000). Catholic nuns and the invention of Social Work: The sisters of the Santa Maria Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1897 through the 1920s. Journal of Women’s History, 12(1), pp 60-88. Focuses on the nuns at the Sisters of the Santa Maria Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1897 through the 1920s. Tradition and innovation in Catholic women's religious communities; Description on convent life; Status of women in the changing context of Protestant benevolence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Berggren, K. (2002). Institutional failures of communication. National Catholic Reporter, 38(35), p24, 2/3p. Focuses on the institutional failure of communication in the Catholic Church and corporate setting. Prevalence of corporate scandal; Association between the Catholic Church and corporate scandal; Need for Catholic writers to have freedom in pursuing issues affecting the church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bunson, M. E. (2007). The history and development of post-conciliar Catholic social communications. (pp. p 205-227). South Bend, IN: Cloverdale.

Cantoni, L., & Zyga, S. (2007). Use of internet communication by Catholic congregations: A quantitative study. Journal of Media & Religion, 6(4), p291-309.

This article presents a first attempt to measure the use of the internet by all 5,812 Catholic religious congregations and autonomous institutes worldwide (with 858,988 members). The research was conducted through a questionnaire sent by e-mail, hence first selecting those institutions which at least have an access to internet communication through an e-mail account (2,285: 39.3% of the total), receiving 437 responses (19.1% of the e-mail owners). The study shows great differences between centralized institutes and autonomous ones: the former ones make a higher use of the Internet than the latter ones; moreover, differences are also found among centralized institutes, namely between male and female ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eder, K. (2007). Cognitive sociology and the theory of communicative action: The role of communication and language in the making of the social bond. European Journal of Social Theory, 10(3), 389-408. DOI: 10.1177/1368431007080702 A pragmatic (communication-discursive) cognitive sociology beyond observationism (Luhmann, Turner, Conein) and individualistic reductionism (Esser, Boudon) as a way to do sociology as a critical theory and as a positive science is proposed, drawing on the Habermasian theory of communicative action and its radical continuation in Luhmann's concept of the (cognitive) autopoiesis of social systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flanagan, K. (2008). Sociology into theology: The unacceptable leap. Theory, Culture & Society, 25(7-8), 236-261. DOI: 10.1177/0263276408097806 By means of a comparison between Bourdieu and Simmel, this article explores the fusion of theology and religion so as to give sociological expression to Kierkegaard's leap of faith. When detached from theology, religion services civil and secular needs in ways that enhance power and the right of the state to regulate the agenda of the politics of identity. In their dealings with religion, Bourdieu and Simmel present sociology with a choice of fusing the category of religion with theology or not. If the outcome is fusion, then the prospects of a religious reflexivity are enhanced, thus facilitating a leap of faith and the opening of a fruitful dialogue with theology, where sociology can develop new horizons for understandings of culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gane, N. (2008). Religion, theology and culture: Introduction. Theory, Culture & Society, 25(78), 119-123. DOI: 10.1177/0263276408097800 The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by John Milbank on contemporary capitalism observations, another by Catherine Pickstock on the complex relationship between music and modernity analyses, and another one by Vincent Lloyd on modernism interview with Gillian Rose.

Gray, M. M. (2007). Catholic media use in the United States. Review of Religious Research, 48(4), 437-438. The article reports the results of a survey that investigated media use among Roman Catholics in the United States in 2007. The poll discovered a number of facts about American Catholics and provides statistics reflecting the rate of charitable contribution made to parishes, attendance at Catholic schools, and the frequency of Mass attendance, confession and Bible studies. The article focuses on how often members of a congregation make use of their diocesan newspapers or newsletters in half yearly increments.

Lutgen-Sandvik, P. & McDermott, V. (2008). The constitution of employee-abusive organizations: A communication flows theory. Communication Theory, 18(2), pp. 304-333. Given the range of destruction wrought by persistent employee abuse, it is crucial to understand how employee-abusive organizations (EAOs) come into being and persist It is also essential to look beyond individualistic "bad apple" explanations to understand the phenomenon's complexity but, to date, little scholarship does so. Indeed, there is insufficient theorizing about the phenomenon. To address this issue, we theorize how EAOs come into being, persist, and change though a confluence of communication flows. This article takes as a starting point and builds upon a message-flows typology from which we create a new theory that explains how EAOs develop and change. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

Oviedo, L. (2008). Testing the effects of organizational culture on a Catholic religious order. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 23(2), 193-214. DOI: 10.1080/13537900802024519

It can be stated that very committed religious people do not develop a monolithic culture, even when they belong to the same spiritual tradition, although there is little research on the pluralism present in a religious segment which is often deemed too uniform and closed to study. The present article aims to explore the internal culture of a homogeneous group of Catholic friars and the presence therein of sub-cultures. Further, the study will test the influence of cultural variables on the factors of vitality and performance. A broad survey, based on an individual questionnaire and involving other monks from different generations and geographic areas, will provide the basic data. The results confirm the complexity of 'organizational culture' as a factor that contributes to the vitality of a religious institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Palakeel, J. (2008). Communicating life: A theological and missionary vision for communication ministry. SEDOS Bulletin, 40(3-4), p 72-75.