Praying for Justice Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town

Name: Praying for Justice Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town
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ISBN: 9780801496783

ISBN-10: 0801496780

ISBN-13: 9780801496783

Edition: 1989

Authors: Carol J. Greenhouse

List price: $38.95

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Anthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law in a predominantly white, middle-class, suburban, principally Southern Baptist community. "A most stimulating book . . . .Praying for Justice is very successful in describing a people's aversion to discord by means of cultural analysis based on sensitive use of ethnographic and archival materials. . . . There is also the pure interest in figuring out a cultural system that is not of law, but that impacts on law, one that is based on justification rather than command, on participation rather than obedience, a system of handling conflict not requiring the application of human authority. . . .…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 10/27/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

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