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Large-scale disaffiliation from the Catholic Church in Britain and North America since Vatican II is a fact, but the reasons for this phenomenon are fiercely debated. Stephen Bullivant raises this discussion to a new level of scholarship by combining rigorous quantitative research with theological and liturgical mastery. This study will be a reference point for anyone interested in understanding the predicament of contemporary Catholicism. * Fr Uwe Michael Lang, Cong. Orat., Visiting Fellow, St Mary's University * The most significant sociological study of Catholicism for decades: order now! * Dr Damian Thompson, Editor-in-chief, The Catholic Herald * This may be the most important book of interpretive religious sociology since Putnam and Campbell's acclaimed American Grace in 2010 ... Every bishop, priest, and Catholic lay leader should study this stunning book like it's something close to Scripture. * Rod Dreher, The American Conservative * Fusing sociology, social history and a battery of statistics, this devastating critique of the state of the Catholic Church in the US and UK since the Second Vatican Council makes compelling reading. Provocative, sophisticated and confident in its diagnosis of the failures of the Catholic Church (as other denominations) to negotiate the challenges of post-war modernity, Mass Exodus will become compulsory reading for all interested in the fate of Anglo-American Christianity since the 1960s. * Dr Alana Harris, Lecturer in Modern British History, King's College London * The fluid and dynamic view so clearly expressed in his research literally comes to life in this coming-of-age story by one of the greatest figures in the field of bilingualism and psycholinguistics. At the forefront of a new university, a new department, a new journal, and a new field, Francois Grosjean builds a bridge across the channels and oceans that seemingly divide us. This book is a must read for those old and young who would like to rekindle their view of language science as a largely human enterprise. He reveals a world not as a monolithic place filled with singular or opposing uniformity but rather as one filled with a dynamic linguistic and cultural multiplicity that traverses regions, nations, and continents. * Arturo Hernandez, author of The Bilingual Brain *

The fluid and dynamic view so clearly expressed in his research literally comes to life in this coming-of-age story by one of the greatest figures in the field of bilingualism and psycholinguistics. At the forefront of a new university, a new department, a new journal, and a new field, Francois Grosjean builds a bridge across the channels and oceans that seemingly divide us. This book is a must read for those old and young who would like to rekindle their view of language science as a largely human enterprise. He reveals a world not as a monolithic place filled with singular or opposing uniformity but rather as one filled with a dynamic linguistic and cultural multiplicity that traverses regions, nations, and continents. * Arturo Hernandez, author of The Bilingual Brain * Autobiography, family history and career account in one, A Journey in Languages and Cultures: The Life of a Bicultural Bilingual entertains, informs, and educates ... [the author] writes engagingly and authoritatively using little jargon. * Graham Elliott MCIL, The Linguist * ...this is an excellent book with rich insights into bilingualism. Hence, I highly recommend this book to scholars, educators, parents, bilinguals as well as people who are interested in this field. * Meizi Piao, University of Massachusetts, Boston, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism * [Grosjean's] account shows a caring teacher and respected scholar leading a rich linguistic life. Highly recommended * C. B. Thurston, CHOICE *

[Grosjean's] account shows a caring teacher and respected scholar leading a rich linguistic life. Highly recommended * C. B. Thurston, CHOICE * ...this is an excellent book with rich insights into bilingualism. Hence, I highly recommend this book to scholars, educators, parents, bilinguals as well as people who are interested in this field. * Meizi Piao, University of Massachusetts, Boston, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism * Autobiography, family history and career account in one, A Journey in Languages and Cultures: The Life of a Bicultural Bilingual entertains, informs, and educates ... [the author] writes engagingly and authoritatively using little jargon. * Graham Elliott MCIL, The Linguist * The fluid and dynamic view so clearly expressed in his research literally comes to life in this coming-of-age story by one of the greatest figures in the field of bilingualism and psycholinguistics. At the forefront of a new university, a new department, a new journal, and a new field, Francois Grosjean builds a bridge across the channels and oceans that seemingly divide us. This book is a must read for those old and young who would like to rekindle their view of language science as a largely human enterprise. He reveals a world not as a monolithic place filled with singular or opposing uniformity but rather as one filled with a dynamic linguistic and cultural multiplicity that traverses regions, nations, and continents. * Arturo Hernandez, author of The Bilingual Brain *

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François Grosjean is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He has worked at Northeastern University, Boston, was a Research Affiliate at MIT, and has lectured at the universities of Basel, Zurich, and Oxford. His research interests include bilingualism and biculturalism, the perception, comprehension, and production of speech, sign language and the bilingualism of the Deaf, the evaluation of speech comprehension in aphasic patients, and the modelling of language processing. He is the author of several books on bilingualism, including Studying Bilinguals (OUP, 2008), Bilingual: Life and Reality (Harvard University Press, 2010), The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism (with Ping Li; Wiley Blackwell, 2013), and The Listening Bilingual (with Krista Byers-Heinlein; Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

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