Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195305418 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 243 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Studies abound that describe thriving religious phenomena that fit neither the old secularization paradigm nor the equations predicting vitality only among organizational entrepreneurs with strict orthodoxies. Researchers who have spent time in the field observing religious groups and interviewing practitioners, however, have questioned the sufficiency of these market models. In this collection of previously unpublished essays, scholars who have been immersed in field research in a wide variety
She is the past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.. Nancy T. Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion, School of Theology, and Professor of Religion at Boston University
Pluralism may challenge traditional perceptions of religion, but it certainly has not led to the demise religion if one examines what people do in everyday life. This is a wonderful collection of essays, framed by Ammerman's brilliant opening and closing chapters." --Donald E. Based on case studies in both Europe and the United States, the poverty of rational-choice explanations of religion is exposed, along with the inadequacy of charting religious change by surveying beliefs and patterns of institutional affiliation. Miller, Professor of Religion and Executive Director of the Center for Religi
Questions, questions and more questions L. Arnold Would you consider an Internet message board religious? What about a "pro-life" funeral for an aborted fetus? When a woman has a vision of Jesus as her reiki energy-healing guide, does that count as a religious experience? All the questions and many, many more are the concern of the essays found within "Everyday Religion." As editor Nancy Ammerman writes in the introduction, it all started wi. good survey of sociology of religion suburban dissident This book is a fine introduction to a number of intriguing questions in the sociology of religion addressed by some of the leading thinkers in the field. While not the best versions of the research on the topics addressed in this book (most of these authors have subsequent publications further specifying and expanding on the ideas in this volume - Lichterman, Munson, Clark, and Davidman's res. Three Stars This book did not leave an impression on me.