Background
Yamane, David was born on November 12, 1968 in Tokyo. Son of Raymond Sakae and Jean Deis Yamane.
(What role, if any, should religion play in politics? By w...)
What role, if any, should religion play in politics? By what authority and methods does the Catholic Church apply its teachings to public policy discourse? How do Bishops and lay leaders work together in Catholic conferences, and how do they work with political leaders? What impact do they have? The political advocacy of the American Catholic Bishops at the state level is one of the Church's best-kept secrets. In this groundbreaking work, David Yamane reveals the rich history, accomplishments, and challenges of bishops and their lay colleagues in local politics. Through sociological analysis, up-to-date examples, and personal interviews, Yamane explains how the local Catholic advocacy organizations in thirty-three states and Washington, D.C., negotiate the tension between the prophetic demands of faith and the political realities of secular political institutions. The Catholic Church in State Politics invites readers to understand better the role of religion in the public square.
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( Beginning with the premise that a comprehensive underst...)
Beginning with the premise that a comprehensive understanding of American life must confront the issue of race, sociologist David Yamane explores efforts by students and others to address racism and racial inequality―to challenge the color line―in higher education. By 1991, nearly half of all colleges and universities in the United States had established a multicultural general education requirement. Yamane examines how such requirements developed at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison during the late 1980s, when these two schools gained national attention in debates over the curriculum. Based on interviews, primary documents, and the existing literature on race and ethnic relations, education, cultural conflict, and the sociology of organizations, Student Movements for Multiculturalism makes an important contribution to our understanding of how curricular change occurs and concludes that multiculturalism represents an opening, not a closing, of the American mind.
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( The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is to...)
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is too often presented as an abstract ideal, detached from the actual parish settings in which it is implemented. This study takes the opposite approach. Based on data from participant observation and interviews, the authors tell real stories of the initiation process in five U.S. parishes. In doing so, they offer a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the RCIA process in each of the parishes. From these stories collectively they draw lessons for the RCIA as well as lessons from the RCIA for the church as a whole. Pastors, lay ministers, catechists, and directors of religious education, as well as those in seminaries and dioceses responsible for training them, will find this book helpful in realizing the full potential of the RCIA in general and in particular parish settings. David Yamane is assistant professor of sociology at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His interest in the RCIA grows out of his own experience of having been initiated as an adult in 1992. Sarah MacMillen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Kelly Culver currently works for the Satellite Theological Education Program (STEP) at the University of Notre Dame.
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Yamane, David was born on November 12, 1968 in Tokyo. Son of Raymond Sakae and Jean Deis Yamane.
Bachelor in Sociology with honors, University California, Berkeley, 1991. Master of Science in Sociology, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1998. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1998.
Assistant professor University Notre Dame, Indiana, 1998—2004, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2005—2008, associate professor, since 2008, chair, sociology, since 2009. Postdoctoral fellow University Virginia, Charlottesville, 2002—2003.
(What role, if any, should religion play in politics? By w...)
( Beginning with the premise that a comprehensive underst...)
( The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is to...)
Member of Association Sociology Religion, American Sociological Association.
Children: Paul, Hannah, Mark.