Everyday religion : observing modern religious lives /
"Nancy T. Ammerman has assembled a diverse and interdisciplinary group of scholars to provide a critical observation of modern religion in action. This collection of previously unpublished essays approaches modern religion at its most fundamental levels and brings the reader into the presence o...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Peter L. Berger
- Introduction : Observing modern religious lives / Nancy T. Ammerman
- Vicarious religion : a methodological challenge / Grace Davie
- Religion as communication : the changing shape of Catholicism in Europe / Enzo Pace
- The new voluntarism and the case of unsynagogued Jews / Lynn Davidman
- Religion, twice removed : exploring the role of media in religious understandings among "secular" young people / Lynn Schofield Clark
- Virtually boundless? : youth negotiating tradition in cyberspace / Mia Lövheim
- Redefining the boundaries of belonging : the transnationalization of religious life / Peggy Levitt
- When a funeral isn't just a funeral : the layered meaning of everyday action / Ziad Munson
- A place on the map : communicating religious presence in civic life / Paul Lichterman
- Connections and contradictions : exploring the complex linkages between faith and family / John P. Bartkowski
- Beyond literalism : reflexive spirituality and religious meaning / Kelly Besecke
- Embodied practices : negotiation and resistance / Meredith McGuire
- Touching the transcendent : rethinking religious experience in the sociological study of religion / Courtney J. Bender
- Studying everyday religion : challenges for the future / Nancy T. Ammerman.