Gregory C Stanczak

Engaged Spirituality

Social Change and American Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on over one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, this book shows how prayer, meditation, and ritual provide foundations for activism. It argues that spirituality plays an important role in the making of activists and has the potential for changing the social order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538365
• ISBN-10: 081353836X
• Artikelnr.: 22322851

Autorenporträt

Stanczak, Gregory C

Inhaltsangabe

Bridging the gap: the split between spirituality and society
Biography, behavior, and belief: the sources of spirituality
Acting on faith: social roles in expressing spirituality
Keeping the faith in action: cultivating spiritual practice
Experience and emotion: the influence of spiritual feelings
Degrees of social integration: toward a theory of engaged spirituality
Lived spirituality and the gamut of social action