Lived Religion in America Toward a History of Practice

Name: Lived Religion in America Toward a History of Practice
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ISBN: 9780691016733

ISBN-10: 0691016739

ISBN-13: 9780691016733

Edition: 1998

Authors: David D. Hall

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At once historically and theoretically informed, these essays invite the reader to think of religion dynamically, reconsidering American religious history in terms of practices that are linked to specific social contexts. The point of departure is the concept of "lived religion." Discussing such topics as gift exchange, cremation, hymn-singing, and women's spirituality, a group of leading sociologists and historians of religion explore the many facets of how people carry out their religious beliefs on a daily basis. As David Hall notes in his introduction, a history of practices "encompasses the tensions, the ongoing struggle of definition, that are constituted within every religious…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/16/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034

David D. Hall is professor of American religious history at Harvard Divinity School.



Introduction



Everyday Miracles: The Study of Lived Religion



"What Scripture Tells Me": Spontaneity and Regulation within the Catholic Charismatic Renewal



Family Strategies and Religious Practice: Baptism and the Lord's Supper in Early New England



Practices of Exchange: From Market Culture to Gift Economy in the Interpretation of American Religion



Lived Religion and the Dead: The Cremation Movement in Gilded Age America



Coffee, Mrs. Cowman, and the Devotional Life of Women Reading in the Desert



The Uses of Ojibwa Hymn-Singing at White Earth: Toward a History of Practice



Submissive Wives, Wounded Daughters, and Female Soldiers: Prayer and Christian Womanhood in Women's Aglow Fellowship



Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream



Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature: Modern Homesteading as Lived Religion in America


Contributors


Index