M A Associate Director

CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHAEL J. MCCALLION November 2022

Sacred Heart Major Seminary

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CURRENT POSITION:

Professor Emeritus. Fr. William Cunningham Chair of Catholic Social Analysis, Sacred Heart Major Seminary (since July 2005), Director, Institute for Research on the New Evangelization (since January 2006).

EDUCATION HISTORY:

Ph.D., Sociology, Wayne State University, May, 1996. Thesis title: The Implementation of

the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults in City and Suburban Parishes of the

Archdiocese of Detroit.

M.A., Sociology, Wayne State University, April 1987, Thesis title: The Sociology of

Conversion and the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

M.A., University of Notre Dame, August 1985

Major: Theology - Liturgical Studies

A.B., Wayne State University, August 1982 (Merit Scholar two-year program at WSU)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1997 – 2009 Director, Office of Pastoral Resources and Research

1993 - 1996 Director, Office of Worship, Archdiocese of Detroit

1991 - 1993 Associate Director, Office of Worship, Archdiocese of Detroit

1989 - 2005 Part Time Instructor: Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Sociology and Liturgy

1989 - 1997 Part Time Instructor: Wayne State University, Department of Sociology

1986 - 1989 Instructor: Institute for Pastoral Liturgical Ministry, Archdiocese of Detroit

1986 – 1989 Pastoral Associate and Director of Worship: St. Germaine Catholic Church, MI

1985 - 1986 Pastoral Associate and Director of Religious Education: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Catholic Church, MI

1983 – 1984 Sectional Coordinator for Religious Education, Grades 6-12 and Director of

Youth Ministry: Holy Name Catholic Church, MI

1982 – 1983 Research Assistant: Elderly Care Research Center, Wayne State University, MI

1980 – 1982 Director of Christian Service & Youth Ministry: Sacred Heart Catholic Church

AREAS OF INTEREST:

Sociology of Religion, Catholicism, Initiation, Religious Organizations, Liturgy, Urban

Sociology; Sociological Theory; New Evangelization and Qualitative Methods

COURSES TAUGHT:

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY

a. Introduction to Sociology: Fall 1989 through 1997.

b. Religion and Society: Winter 1991 & 2001, Fall 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

c. Sociology of Social Institutions & Social Structure: Fall 1992

d. Social Psychology: Spring 1996, Fall 1996

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY

a. Introduction to Sociology: Fall 1999; Winter 2001

b. Catholicism and American Society: Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003

c. Sociology of Religion: Winter 2003

SACRED HEART MAJOR SEMINARY (F=Fall; W=Winter; S=Summer)

a. Family: School of the New Evangelization, F2010, F2012, S2016, 2020

b. Cultural Milieu and the New Evangelization, summer 2019

c. Catholic Devotions and the New Evangelization, W2010, F2013, S2016, S2017

d. Social and Cultural Analysis of the New Evangelization, S2017

e. Sociology of Religion, Every year since 2012 to present

f. Archdiocese of Detroit: A Cultural/Social Analysis and NE, W2007.

g. Cultural Milieu of the New Evangelization, F2005.

h. Formation of Christian Community, Fall 1998 through 2012 every other year.

i. Pastoral Care Across Cultures, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

j. Introduction to Sociology: Winter 1993 through 2013 every other year.

k. Introduction to Liturgy: Fall 1989.

l. Introduction to the Sacraments: Summer 1986, Spring 1987, Spring 1988

m. Sacraments of Healing and Witness: Fall 1986, Fall 1987

n. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults: 1998, 1999, 2006, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022

o. Catholic Liturgical Prayer: Spring 1987

RESEARCH GRANTS

2007 - 2009 Principal Investigator. Institute for Research on the New Evangelization. Grant

from Our Sunday Visitor, $20,000.

2006 – 2007 Principal Investigator. Institute for Research on the New Evangelization. Grant

from Our Sunday Visitor, $10,000.

1997 – 2000 Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Fredrick Roberts, MSU). “Metropolitan Detroit Congregation Study: Religious Knowledge Encounters and Conflict in Thirteen Congregations.” Lilly Endowment, $690,000.

PUBLICATIONS: Articles, Chapters, Books

2022 Michael J. McCallion. Foundational Social Ritual Practices of Parish Life: Eating,

Worshipping, and Hanging Out Together. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2022 Michael J. McCallion. “New Evangelization and the Pew Dweller.” In Motown

Evangelization: Sharing the Gospel of Jesu in Detroit Style. Edited by John C. Cavadini

and Donald Wallenfang. Eugene, Oregon: PICKWICK Publications.

2022 Michael J. McCallion. Experiencing God in Community. Human Development, Volume

42: 3.

2021 Michael J. McCallion and Kevin McCallion. “Reflection on Social Media.” Academia

Letters. February, Article 329.

2021 Michael J. McCallion. “Individualism as an Addictive Pattern of Behavior.” Human

Development, Volume 41:2, Winter 2021.

2018 Michael J. McCallion and John Ligas. 2018. “Sociology of the Liturgy in

Postmodernity: Ritual Attunement and Dis-Attunement at Sunday Mass.” Antiphon: A

Journal for Liturgical Renewal: 22.2: 138-174

2017 Michael J. McCallion. “New Evangelization Practices? Devotional Prayer, Meetings, and Christian Service.” Sociology and Anthropology 5(7): 503-510.

2016 Michael J. McCallion, John Ligas, and George Seroka. “An Institutional and Status

Analysis of Youth Ministry in the Archdiocese of Detroit.” Religions, 2016, 7, 48.

2015 Michael J. McCallion. The New Evangelization in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of

Detroit, Michigan: A Sociological Report. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Michael J. McCallion. “As the Parish Goes, So Goes the Family.” Mosaic, Sacred

Heart Major Seminary.

Michael J. McCallion, et al. “Joyful and Beleaugered: Coordinators of Youth Ministry

in the AOD.” Review of Religious Research, Volume 57, Number 2.

2014 Michael J. McCallion. “The New Evangelization in the Archdiocese of Detroit as an

Intra-Ecclesial Social Movement.” Church Life: A Journal for the New Evangelization

Vol. 2, No. 4: 23-40.

2013 Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Michael J. McCallion, David R. Maines. “Personal

Relationship With Jesus: A Popular Ideograph among Evangelical Catholics.” Journal

of Communication and Religion Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring: pp. 1-24.

2012 Benjamin R. Bennett-Carpenter and Michael J. McCallion. “Specialized, Ecclesial

Ideography: The New Evangelization in the Catholic Church.” Michigan

Academician, volume XLI.

2011 Michael J. McCallion, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, and David R. Maines.

“Individualism and Community as Contested Rhetorics in the Catholic New

Evangelization Movement.” Review of Religious Research, volume 53, Number 1.

Michael J. McCallion. “No Priest Shortage in the Archdiocese of Detroit.” Review of

Religious Research, December 2011.

2009 Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. “Representations of Faith and the

Catholic New Evangelization.” New Theology Review. February.

2007 Michael J. McCallion and Ben Bennett Carpenter. “Displays of Faith: Material/Visual

versus Cognitive/Verbal.” Review of Religious Research, volume 49, number 4.

Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. Transforming Catholicism: Liturgical

Change and the Vatican II Church. New York: Lexington Books/Rowman &

Littlefield Publishing Group.

Michael J. McCallion. "Status Passages." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of

Sociology, George Ritzer, Editor. Meldan, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Michael J. McCallion. "In-Groups and Out-Groups." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer, Editor. Meldan, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Michael J. McCallion. “Anointing and Penance: A Sociological Appraisal.”

Antiphon: A Journal of Liturgical Renewal.

2006 Michael J. McCallion with Megan LaMont. “Lay Ecclesial Ministers in the

Archdiocese of Detroit. Review of Religious Research, Volume 47, #3.

2005 Michael J. McCallion. "Youth Ministry in the Archdiocese of Detroit"

Review of Religious Research, 46, Number 1, June, pages 423 – 424.

Michael J. McCallion and Rose Brys. "CSA Families Living Within Parish Boundaries" Review of Religious Research, March, 26 no.3, pages 308 – 309.

2004 David R. Maines and Michael J. McCallion. “Evidence of and Speculations on Catholic de facto Congregationalism.” Review of Religious Research, 46:1, 92-101.

2003 Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. “On the Reproduction of Segmentation:

Divergences in Catholic Church Professional and Laity Views of Church Size”.

Review of Religious Research. 45:1, 59-67.

Michael J. McCallion. “Extraordinary Ministers of Communion and the Sick: A

Sociological Inquiry.” Antiphon 8:3 2-6.

2002 Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. “Divergences in Professional and Lay

Views of Church Priorities.” Antiphon 7: 6-9.

Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. “Liturgical Influence on Tabernacle

Location” Review of Religious Research. September 44: 95-96.

Michael J. McCallion. “Paid Parish Staff Report 2001.” Review of Religious

Research. September 44: 93-94.

Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. “Spiritual Gatekeepers: The RCIA

and the Problem of Time.” Symbolic Interaction. 25: 289-302.

2001 David R. Maines and Michael J. McCallion. “Urban Inequality and Detroit

Archdiocesan Reorganization.” In David R. Maines, The Faultline of Consciousness:

A View of Interactionism in Sociology, Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.

2000 Michael J. McCallion. “Lay and Professional Views on Tabernacle Location in Catholic Parishes. “Journal of Contemporary Ethnography December 29: 717-746.

Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. “Liturgical Problems and the Liturgist:

On the Consequences of a New Occupation in the Catholic Church,” pp. 241 – 259 in Helena Lopata (ed), Unusual Occupations, Greenwich, CT: JAI press.

David R. Maines and Michael J. McCallion. “Urban Inequality and the Possibilities of Church-based Intervention,” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 23: 43-53.

1999 Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. “The Liturgical Social Movement in the

Vatican II Catholic Church,” Pp. 125-149, in Research and Social Movements: Conflicts and Change. Editors, Michael Dobkowski and Isidore Wallimann, Greenwich, CT, JAI Press.

1998 Michael J. McCallion and David R. Maines. “Clergy, Laity and the Liturgy.”

Antiphon: 3: 18-21.

1996 Michael J. McCallion, David R. Maines, and Steven Wolfel. “Policy as Practice: Holy Communion as a Contested Situation.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: 25: 300-326.

Book Reviews Published

2019 Word, Liturgy, Charity: The Diaconate in the U.S. Catholic Church, 1968-2018.

2018. Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. New York: Lexington Books.

2018 Gaillardetz, Richard R. 2018. By What Authority? Foundations for Understanding Authority in the Church. Revised and Expanded Edition. Liturgical Press Academic. Collegeville, Minnesota. 246 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8146-8788-8. In CatholicBooksReview.org.

2017 Blasi, Anthony J. 2017. Social Science and the Christian Scriptures: Sociological Introductions and New Translation, Volume 1,2,3. Eugene, Oregon: WIPF & STOCK. In CatholicBooksReview.org.

2017 Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray, Jonathon L. Wiggins, and Thomas P. Gaunt, S.J. Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In CatholicBooksReview.org.

2015 Ouelett, Marc Cardinal. 2015. Mystery and Sacrament of Love: A Theology of

Marriage and the Family for the New Evangelization. Grand Rapids, Michigan:

Eerdmans Publishing Company. In CatholicBooksReview.org.

Marti, Gerardo and Ganiel, Gladys. 2014. The Deconstructed Church: Understanding

Emerging Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.In CatholicBooksReview.org.

Gittins, Anthony J. 2015. Living Mission Interculturally: Faith, Culture, and the

Renewal of Praxis. Collegeville: A Michael Glazer Book, Liturgical Press. In

CatholicBooksReview.org.

2009 Michael J. McCallion. Sense of the Faithful: How American Catholics Live Their

Faith. 2009. New York: Oxford University Press.

Michael J. McCallion. American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a

Mainstream Religious Movement. 2009. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

2008 Michael J. McCallion. Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church.

By Margaret Poloma and Ralph Hood Jr. 2008. New York University Press.

2005 Michael J. McCallion. Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Society,

by Stephen Fuchs, Symbolic Interaction, 28, issue 2: pp. 297-299.

2003 Michael J. McCallion. Toward Reflexive Ethnography: Participating, Observing,

Narrating. Edited by David G. Bromley and Lewis F. Carter, Contemporary

Sociology, volume 32, #3, pages 399 – 400.

2002 Michael J. McCallion. Catholicism USA: A Portrait of the Catholic Church in the

United States. by Bryan T. Froehle and Mary L. Gautier, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. March, volume 41: 187-188.

2001 Michael J. McCallion. Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular

Catholic Devotion by Michael P. Carroll Contemporary Sociology,

1996 Michael J. McCallion, Right: Conservative Catholics in America. by Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott Appleby Indianapolis Indiana University Press 1995, in Liturgix: 22:5-6.

1993 Michael McCallion, Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan

by Ikuya Sato Symbolic Interaction, 16 (No.3): 295-298.

1992 Michael McCallion, Review Essay: "The Satanism Scare or the Antisatanism Scare," Symbolic Interaction, 15 (No.2): 237-240.

BLOGS PUBLISHED at University of Notre Dame: THE CATHOLIC CONVERSATION

2014 Michael J. McCallion. “Thesis: Practices.” (1.13.14). https://blogs.nd.edu/thecc

2013 Michael J. McCallion. “7 Insights for the NE from a Social Ritual Practices

Perspective.” (11.24.13)

Michael J. McCallion. “How Does This Sociologist Think About the New

Evangelization.” (11.20.13).

Michael J. McCallion. “Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi (and Durkheim).” (4.22.13)

Michael J. McCallion. “Durkheim, Weber, and Religion.” (4.8.13)

Michael J. McCallion. “Durkheim: Part III.” (2.26.13)

Michael J. McCallion. “Durkheim Continued.” (2.13.13)

Michael J. McCallion. “How Durkheim is Repeatedly Misinterpreted: A Conversation

Starter.” https://blogs.nd.edu/thecc (2.1.13)

2012 Michael J. McCallion. “Response to my article on the New Evangelization.” (11.1.12)

Michael J. McCallion. “Review Essay on Lee and D’Antonio’s book The Catholic

Experience of Small Christian Communities.” (10.17.12)

Michael J. McCallion. “New Scholarship: Contested Rhetorics in the New Evangelization Movement.” (10.8.12)

Michael J. McCallion. “Catholic Devotions.” (5.17.12)

Michael J. McCallion. “The New Evangelization and Its Institutionalization in the Catholic Church.” (5.7.12)

Michael J. McCallion. “Catholic New Evangelization: Who Has Even Heard of It?” (2.15.12)

Michael J. McCallion. “The Tabernacle in Catholic Parishes.” 1.12.12

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Book Chapter titled “New Evangelization and the Laity.” Forthcoming book edited by

Dr. Donald Wallenfang – the chapter is under review as of February 2020.

Michael J. McCallion. “Review Essay on Lee and D’Antonio’s book The Catholic

Experience of Small Christian Communities.” Completed – need a journal submission

Talk at 2019 Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference in Maine. “Family and the

Liturgy.”

Book titled Sociology of the Parish. First draft to be completed by May 2021.

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

2019 Liturgy and Ritual presented at Social Scientific Study of Religion and Religious

Research Association Annual Conference.

2019 Michael J. McCallion. “Taking a Knee: A Catholic Cultural Perspective.” Presented

at Corpus Christi Parish in Detroit on May 11, 2019.

2014 Michael J. McCallion. “Practices of the New Evangelization: Devotions, Meetings,

and Service.” Presented Saturday Nov 1st at the Society for the Scientific

Study of Religion and Religious Research Association Annual Meeting Boston,MA.

2013 Michael J. McCallion. “Young Adults and the New Evangelization in the

Archdiocese of Detroit.” Presented Friday Nov 8th at the Society for the Scientific

Study of Religion and Religious Research Association Annual Meeting Boston,MA.

Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter and Michael J. McCallion. “The Rise of the New

Evangelization: Post Vatican II to 1992 to 2012.” Presented Friday Nov 8th at the

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and Religious Research Association Annual

Meeting Boston, MA.

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