Everyday Religion Observing Modern Religious Lives

Name: Everyday Religion Observing Modern Religious Lives
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ISBN: 9780195305401

ISBN-10: 019530540X

ISBN-13: 9780195305401

Edition: 2006

Authors: Nancy T. Ammerman

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Scholars once predicted a bleak existence for religion in the modern world. Social progress, they argued, meant doing away with religion and its antiquated control over our lives. Religion, however, is actually thriving in pluralistic and complex societies, and its continued vibrancy-even resurgence--demands a reevaluation of ideas about secularization. Nancy T. Ammerman has assembled a diverse and interdisciplinary group of scholars to provide a critical observation of modern religion in action. This collection of previously unpublished essays approaches modern religion at its most fundamental levels and brings the reader into the presence of religious practice among the complexities of…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/14/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Foreword
Contributors
Introduction
Tradition Dislodged but Not Lost
Vicarious Religion: A Methodical Challenge
Religion as Communication: The Changing Shape of Catholicism in Europe
The New Voluntarism and the Case of Unsynagogued Jews
Religion, Twice Removed: Exploring the Role of Media in Religious Understandings among "Secular" Young People
Virtually Boundless? Youth Negotiating Tradition in cyberspace
Religion "Out of Place"
Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: The Transnationalization of Religious Life
When a Funeral Isn't Just a Funeral: The Layered Meaning of Everyday Action
A Place on the Map: Communicating Religious Presence in Civic Life
Connections and Contradictions: Exploring the Complex Linkages between Faith and Family
Producing Everyday Religious Lives
Beyond Literalism: Reflexive Spirituality and Religious Meaning
Embodied Practices: Negotiation and Resistance
Touching the Transcendent: Rethinking Religious Experience in the Sociological Study of Religion
Studying Everyday Religion: Challenges for the Future
Index
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