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  title info:
    title: Nurturing happiness
    sub title: how religion shapes emotional practice
  title info:
    title: How religion shapes emotional practice
  name:
    name part: Wuthnow, Robert
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 232 pages)
  abstract: "Nurturing Happiness describes how American religious leaders at pivotal moments in their history attempted to guide - and control - their adherents' thoughts about happiness and their experiences of it. It shows how religious authorities used their discursive power to draw moral distinctions among kinds of happiness and their institutional power to manage where it took place and how it was expressed. It demonstrates that religious authorities' efforts to nurture happiness, while not always effective, played a crucial role in faith communities' adaptation to changing social conditions. Nurturing Happiness describes these adaptations in colonial-era arguments about heavenly joy and virtuous living, nineteenth-century revival meetings and festive events, Progressive-era advocacy for useful service, and recent efforts to link play with transcendence and to associate spirituality with personal discipline. This is a book for first-time students of religion and sociology as well as for advanced scholars and for interested readers who want to understand better how religion relates to happiness"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction : perspectives on happiness -- Earthly and heavenly happiness : dialogic comparisons in colonial America -- Getting happy : revival era exuberance and conviviality -- Festive emotion : fairs, gender, and identity in the age of industrialization -- Durable happiness : progressive era constructions of work and service -- Transcendent play : searching for wholeness in the 1960s and beyond -- Spiritual discipline : the hard work of finding joy -- Illicit happiness : the fallout from betrayals of trust -- Conclusion : nurturing happiness.
  note: Robert Wuthnow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Happiness
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Religion and sociology
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Bonheur
    topic: Aspect religieux
  subject:
    topic: Sociologie religieuse
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Psychology of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Faith
  subject:
    topic: Cultural
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Society & culture: general
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  classification: BL65.H36 W88 2025
  classification: 306.60973
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    title info:
      title: Nurturing happiness
    name:
      name part: Wuthnow, Robert.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2025013429
    identifier: (OCoLC)1512065746
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250402
    record change date: 20260319210129.4
    record identifier: in00005728423
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng