Giuseppe Giordan received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences in 2002 from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome and is currently Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Padua. He is the author of several books in Italian and has edited Vocation in Social Context, volume 14 in the Religion and the Social Order series (Brill 2007).

• Contributors include: Luigi Berzano, Anthony J. Blasi, Pierluigi Caddeo, Roberto Cipriani, Régis Dericquebourg, Stefano Federici, Kieran Flanagan, Kees de Groot, Eliana Martoglio, Patrick Michel, Roberto Motta, Enzo Pace, William H. Swatos, Jr., Francesco Valerio Tommasi, Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud, and Paul-André Turcotte.

Giuseppe Giordan received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences in 2002 from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome and is currently Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Padua. He is the author of several books in Italian and has edited Vocation in Social Context, volume 14 in the Religion and the Social Order series (Brill 2007).

• Contributors include: Luigi Berzano, Anthony J. Blasi, Pierluigi Caddeo, Roberto Cipriani, Régis Dericquebourg, Stefano Federici, Kieran Flanagan, Kees de Groot, Eliana Martoglio, Patrick Michel, Roberto Motta, Enzo Pace, William H. Swatos, Jr., Francesco Valerio Tommasi, Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud, and Paul-André Turcotte.

Giuseppe Giordan received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences in 2002 from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome and is currently Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Padua. He is the author of several books in Italian and has edited Vocation in Social Context, volume 14 in the Religion and the Social Order series (Brill 2007).

• Contributors include: Luigi Berzano, Anthony J. Blasi, Pierluigi Caddeo, Roberto Cipriani, Régis Dericquebourg, Stefano Federici, Kieran Flanagan, Kees de Groot, Eliana Martoglio, Patrick Michel, Roberto Motta, Enzo Pace, William H. Swatos, Jr., Francesco Valerio Tommasi, Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud, and Paul-André Turcotte.