Giuseppe Giordan, Ph.D. (2002) in Social Sciences, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome), is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Valle d'Aosta, Italy. His main works include Valori e cambiamento sociale: definizioni operative e modello esplicativo [Values and Social Change: Working Definitions and Explanatory Models], Dall’uno al molteplice. Dispositivi di legittimazione nell’epoca del pluralismo [From One to Many: Systems of Legitimation in the Age of Pluralism].

• PrefaceWilliam H. Swatos, Jr.IntroductionGiuseppe Giordan1. VocationAndrew J. Weigert and Anthony J. Blasi2. Italian Youth and Ideas of VocationFranco Garelli3. Vocation as a Personal ChoiceLuigi Berzano4. Vocation versus Vocational Status in the Lives of Currentand Former Vowed American Catholic ReligiousAnthony J. Blasi5. Vocation and Vocational “Crisis”: A Study of ItalianFormer PriestsGiuseppe Giordan6. Civic Engagement and Church Policy in the Making ofReligious Vocations: Cross-National Variation in theEvolution of Priestly OrdinationsRobert M. Fishman and Keely Jones7. Women, Religious Agency and the Politics of VocationLaura M. Leming8. Seminarians and VocationGiovanni Dal PiazRDAN_f1_i-viii.indd5/2007 4:15:01 PM9. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Life: Vocation as a SocialMovementRobert C. Butler

Social scientists, religious educators, and those in related disciplines who are interested in vocational or professional developmental issues, epecially persons with responsibility for nurturing religious vocations in the Catholic Church.

Giuseppe Giordan, Ph.D. (2002) in Social Sciences, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome), is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Valle d'Aosta, Italy. His main works include Valori e cambiamento sociale: definizioni operative e modello esplicativo [Values and Social Change: Working Definitions and Explanatory Models], Dall’uno al molteplice. Dispositivi di legittimazione nell’epoca del pluralismo [From One to Many: Systems of Legitimation in the Age of Pluralism].

• PrefaceWilliam H. Swatos, Jr.IntroductionGiuseppe Giordan1. VocationAndrew J. Weigert and Anthony J. Blasi2. Italian Youth and Ideas of VocationFranco Garelli3. Vocation as a Personal ChoiceLuigi Berzano4. Vocation versus Vocational Status in the Lives of Currentand Former Vowed American Catholic ReligiousAnthony J. Blasi5. Vocation and Vocational “Crisis”: A Study of ItalianFormer PriestsGiuseppe Giordan6. Civic Engagement and Church Policy in the Making ofReligious Vocations: Cross-National Variation in theEvolution of Priestly OrdinationsRobert M. Fishman and Keely Jones7. Women, Religious Agency and the Politics of VocationLaura M. Leming8. Seminarians and VocationGiovanni Dal PiazRDAN_f1_i-viii.indd5/2007 4:15:01 PM9. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Life: Vocation as a SocialMovementRobert C. Butler

Social scientists, religious educators, and those in related disciplines who are interested in vocational or professional developmental issues, epecially persons with responsibility for nurturing religious vocations in the Catholic Church.

Giuseppe Giordan, Ph.D. (2002) in Social Sciences, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome), is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Valle d'Aosta, Italy. His main works include Valori e cambiamento sociale: definizioni operative e modello esplicativo [Values and Social Change: Working Definitions and Explanatory Models], Dall’uno al molteplice. Dispositivi di legittimazione nell’epoca del pluralismo [From One to Many: Systems of Legitimation in the Age of Pluralism].

• PrefaceWilliam H. Swatos, Jr.IntroductionGiuseppe Giordan1. VocationAndrew J. Weigert and Anthony J. Blasi2. Italian Youth and Ideas of VocationFranco Garelli3. Vocation as a Personal ChoiceLuigi Berzano4. Vocation versus Vocational Status in the Lives of Currentand Former Vowed American Catholic ReligiousAnthony J. Blasi5. Vocation and Vocational “Crisis”: A Study of ItalianFormer PriestsGiuseppe Giordan6. Civic Engagement and Church Policy in the Making ofReligious Vocations: Cross-National Variation in theEvolution of Priestly OrdinationsRobert M. Fishman and Keely Jones7. Women, Religious Agency and the Politics of VocationLaura M. Leming8. Seminarians and VocationGiovanni Dal PiazRDAN_f1_i-viii.indd5/2007 4:15:01 PM9. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Life: Vocation as a SocialMovementRobert C. Butler

Social scientists, religious educators, and those in related disciplines who are interested in vocational or professional developmental issues, epecially persons with responsibility for nurturing religious vocations in the Catholic Church.