Nancy Tatom Ammerman

Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes

Finding Religion in Everyday Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199917365
• ISBN-10: 0199917361
• Artikelnr.: 38049578

Autorenporträt

Nancy Tatom Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion in the School of Theology and Department of Sociology at Boston University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgments
* List of Tables
* List of Illustrations and Captions
* Chapter 1. In Search of Religion in Everyday Life
* Chapter 2. "Spirituality" and "Religion": What Are We Talking About?
* Chapter 3. Spiritual Practices in Everyday Life
* Chapter 4. Religious Communities and Spiritual Conversations
* Chapter 5. Everyday Life at Home
* Chapter 6. Nine to Five: Spiritual Presence at Work
* Chapter 7. Everyday Public Life: Circles of Spiritual Presence and
Absence
* Chapter 8. Bodies and Spirits: Health, Illness and Mortality
* Chapter 9. Spiritual Tribes: Toward a Sociology of Religion in
Everyday Life
* Appendix 1. Participants and Their Religious Communities
* Appendix 2. Coding and Analyzing Stories
* Appendix 3. Research Protocols
* Notes
* References
* Index