{"id":43,"date":"2009-07-29T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2016-11-17T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:08:37","slug":"parish-transitions-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/past-projects\/past-projects-2\/parish-transitions-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish Transitions Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment2075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment2075\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cpt\/files\/2013\/11\/ammerman.png\" alt=\"Nancy Ammerman picture\" width=\"125\" height=\"168\" class=\"wp-image-2075 size-full\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment2075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Nancy T. Ammerman , Professor of Sociology of Religion and Assoc. Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences in the College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment243\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/cpt\/files\/2009\/07\/mccorkle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-243\" src=\"\/cpt\/files\/2009\/07\/mccorkle.jpg\" alt=\"mccorkle\" width=\"134\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Brian McCorkle, Former Research Assistant Professor, School of Theology and Former Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology, Danielsen Institute Academic Faculty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment3034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3034\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cpt\/files\/2016\/10\/sr-e13459818198771.png\" alt=\"Shelly Rambo picture\" width=\"139\" height=\"167\" class=\"wp-image-3034\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment3034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Shelly Rambo, Associate Professor of Theology at Boston University School of Theology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Parish Transitions Archive:<br \/>\nRecording the Stories<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian McCorkle<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Co-Investigators: Dr. Nancy Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion and Dr. Shelly Rambo, Assistant Professor of Theology<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This project developed an archive of the lived experience of people of faith during one historical moment of major, if not cataclysmic, congregational change.\u00a0 The perspectives of the people affected by the closing of Roman Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston were recorded while it was actually happening and immediately afterwards.\u00a0 This process affected many aspects of life for people of faith: their relationship with God, church hierarchy, and pastors; their personal theologies; their personal faith and spiritual journeys; and perhaps even their emotional well-being.\u00a0 Field research staff conducted open-ended qualitative interviews with individuals and focus groups.\u00a0 These interviews were audiotaped with participants\u2019 knowledge and transcribed for later analysis.\u00a0 This data repository can be returned to for further analysis for years to come by students of congregational development, the sociology of religion, and the psychology of religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parish Transitions Archive: Recording the Stories Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian McCorkle Co-Investigators: Dr. Nancy Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion and Dr. Shelly Rambo, Assistant Professor of Theology This project developed an archive of the lived experience of people of faith during one historical moment of major, if not cataclysmic, congregational change.\u00a0 The perspectives of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1743,"featured_media":0,"parent":2896,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/3079"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}