Brett C. Hoover is associate professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He teaches pastoral theology, congregational studies, and American Catholicism at the gr...view moreBrett C. Hoover is associate professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He teaches pastoral theology, congregational studies, and American Catholicism at the graduate and undergraduate levels. A former Congregational Studies fellow, his research has focused on ethnographic accounts of the relationship between different cultural groups in culturally diverse Catholic parishes in the United States. He is the author of The Shared Parish: Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism (New York University Press, 2014).view less