Author: Madsen, Richard; Sullivan, William N.; Swidler, Ann & Tipton, Steven M.; editors: Title: Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xvii,345 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 14 papers. Includes: J.C. Alexander & S.J. Sherwood "'Mythic Gestures': Robert N. Bellah & Cultural Sociology"; S.M. Tipton "Social Differentiation & Moral Pluralism"; A. Swidler "Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions"; S.N. Eisenstadt "Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese & U.S. Modernity"; P.S. Gorski "Calvinism & Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered"; R. Madsen "Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene"; H. Cox "Mammon & the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique"; J.A. Coleman "Selling God in America: American Commerical Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion"; A.J. Raboteau "In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman & Religious Community"; R. Wuthnow "Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society"; C.Taylor " Democracy, Inclusive & Exclusive"; N. Eliasoph "Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education & Political Avoidance in Civic America"; S. Hauerwas "On Being a Christian & an American"; W.M. Sullivan ""Politics as the 'Public Use of Reason': Religious Roots of Political Possiiblities". R.N. Bellah "Epilogue: Meaning & Modernity: American & the World".
Keywords: Sociology of Religion, United States, Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernism, Cultural, Symbolism, ,
Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS011745I