Closing Chapters: Urban Change, Religious Reform, and the Decline of Youngstown's Catholic Elementary Schools, 1960-2006

By Thomas Welsh

Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through this examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739165941
• ISBN13: 9780739165942
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"