How does religious faith contribute to happiness? In Nurturing Happiness, Robert Wuthnow describes how American faith leaders at pivotal moments in their history attempted to nurture -- and control -- their adherents' thoughts about happiness and their experiences of it.
How does religious faith contribute to happiness? In Nurturing Happiness, Robert Wuthnow describes how American faith leaders at pivotal moments in their history attempted to nurture -- and control -- their adherents' thoughts about happiness and their experiences of it.
Robert Wuthnow is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Princeton University. He is also an elected fellow of the American Philosophical Society, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the recipient of numerous awards for his scholarly work. His recent books include What Happens When We Practice Religion? Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life (Princeton 2020), and Religion's Power: What Makes It Work (Oxford 2023).
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Perspectives on Happiness * 1: Earthly and Heavenly Happiness: Dialogic Comparisons in Colonial America * 2: Getting Happy: Revival Era Exuberance and Conviviality * 3: Festive Emotion: Fairs, Gender, and Identity in the Age of Industrialization * 4: Durable Happiness: Progressive Era Constructions of Work and Service * 5: Transcendent Play: Searching for Wholeness in the 1960s and Beyond * 6: Spiritual Discipline: The Hard Work of Finding Joy * 7: Illicit Happiness: The Fallout from Betrayals of Trust * 8: Conclusion: Nurturing Happiness
* Introduction: Perspectives on Happiness * 1: Earthly and Heavenly Happiness: Dialogic Comparisons in Colonial America * 2: Getting Happy: Revival Era Exuberance and Conviviality * 3: Festive Emotion: Fairs, Gender, and Identity in the Age of Industrialization * 4: Durable Happiness: Progressive Era Constructions of Work and Service * 5: Transcendent Play: Searching for Wholeness in the 1960s and Beyond * 6: Spiritual Discipline: The Hard Work of Finding Joy * 7: Illicit Happiness: The Fallout from Betrayals of Trust * 8: Conclusion: Nurturing Happiness
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