Reflexivity, Being Differently Religious, and American

Catholicism
I. Individual Reflexivity
A). For Me Pluralization
Particularism?

and

the

Demise

of

Religious

B). A Good Person Pragmatism and Privileging the Ethical

Consequences of Belief
C). My Faith Subjectivization and Self-Identity
II. Institutional Reflexivity ODeas
the Institutionalization of Religion

and his Five Dilemmas of

A). Symbolic Dilemma: The church uses symbols that can lost their
resonance over time.
B). Dilemma of Delimitation: The church formulates doctrines that
can devolve into mere legalisms.
C). Dilemma of Mixed Motivations: The church often appeals to
peoples (especially potential leaders) various personal interests,
which can come to loom larger than those of the church itself.
D). Dilemma of Administrative Order: The church has generated a
bureaucratic structure that can lose tough with the laity.
E). Dilemma of Power: The church needs to relate somewhat to
societal institutions and cultural norms, which means a tendency
toward conformism can replace deeply held commitment as the
wellspring of members affiliation.