Contemporary American Religion (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216221579
• Artikelnr.: 75137457

Autorenporträt

Penny Edgell: Cornell University Nancy L. Eiesland: Emory University

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