Contemporary American Religion

An Ethnographic Reader
Herausgeber: Edgell, Penny; Eiesland, Nancy L.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

No single narrative or theory can describe the varieties of religious experience in North America today. The tidy dichotomies of liberal/ conservative, public/private, local/global, and renewal/secularization make little sense once specific congregations are examined closely. To understand the shifting boundaries of contemporary religious expressions, new tools are needed. Contemporary American Religion collects qualitative, on-the-ground studies of local congregations by up-and-coming religious scholars. Ethnography combined with more traditional sociological methods, help make sense of complex religious communities-from Messianic Jews to evangelical feminists, from Gospel Hour at a gay bar to exurban megachurches. This collection covers a wide span of the religious landscape, always trying to uncover new theoretical insights. Essential reading for classes in sociology of religion, contemporary American religion, and anthropology of religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780761991960
• ISBN-10: 0761991964
• Artikelnr.: 29164239

Autorenporträt

Edited by Penny Edgell and Nancy L. Eiesland

Inhaltsangabe

chapter 1 Penny Edgell Becker and Nancy L. Eiesland
Introduction chapter 2 1. Shoshanah Feher
Managing Strain
Contradictions
and Fluidity: Messianic Judaism and the Negotiation of a Religio-Ethnic Identity chapter 3 2. Matthew Lawson
Struggles for Mutual Reverence: Social Strategies and Religious Stories chapter 4 3. Edward R. Gray and Scott L. Thumma
The Gospel Hour: Liminality
Identity
and Religion in a Gay Bar chapter 5 4. Janet Stocks
To Stay or to Leave?: Organizational Legitimacy in the Struggle for Change Among Evangelical Feminists chapter 6 5. Penny Edgell Becker
What is Right? What is Caring? Moral Logic in Local Religious Life chapter 7 6. Elfriede Wedam
Splitting Interests or Common Causes: Styles of Moral Reasoning in Opposing Abortion chapter 8 7. Tim Nelson
The Church and the Street: Race
Class
and Congregation chapter 9 8. Nancy L. Eiesland
Contending with a Giant: The Impact of a Megachurch on Exurban Religious Institutions chapter 10 9. Mike McMullen
The Religious Construction of a Global Identity: An Ethnographic Look at the Atlanta Bahai Community chapter 11 Robert Wuthnow
Conclusion chapter 12 References chapter 13 Index