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American spirituality—with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration—is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as The New Metaphysicals makes clear, contemporary American spirituality has historic roots in the nineteenth century and a great deal in common with...
Author
Courtney Bender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226042804
EAN Code
9780226042800
ISBN #
11
The Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) is the premier academic journal in the field of religious studies. The AAR's international journal publishes top scholarly articles that cover the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
249
Publisher
American Academy of Religion
ISBN #
13
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem tha...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN #
0231152337
EAN Code
9780231152334
ISBN #
4
Over the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholars to rethink secularity and its relationship to society. Since classifying a person, activity, or experience as religious or otherwise is an important act of valuation, one that defines the characte...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
296
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN #
0231156855
EAN Code
9780231156851
ISBN #
3
How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? How do our daily encounters with people who hold different religious beliefs shape the way we understand our own moral and spiritual selves? In Heaven's Kitchen, Courtney Bender takes a highly original approach to answering these questions. Fo...
Author
Courtney Bender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN #
1845930622
EAN Code
9781845930622
ISBN #
2
The thirteen essays in this volume challenge conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
312
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199938644
EAN Code
9780199938643
ISBN #
1
Heaven's Kitchen Living Religion at God's Love We Deliver . University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
U Of Chicago Press,2003
ISBN #
10
This digital document is an article from Sociology of Religion, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 8999 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digit...
Author
Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge
Binding
Digital
Pages
30
Publisher
Thomson Gale
ISBN #
8