What is public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? Wuthnow states that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major organizational forms that produce public religion, shows how they shape public religion's messages, and reveals the implicit and unintended ways in which the sacred is expressed in modern society.
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Prolific essayist and author Wuthnow (Rediscovering the Sacred, Eerdmans, 1992) is academically well suited to write this treatise. He seeks to gain insight into public religion by considering the subject as a cultural expression-hence, something that is produced. Specifically, Wuthnow argues that religions continue to exist because of individuals, communities, and organizations and that the sacred-that is, those "symbolic frameworks that are set apart from everyday life"-is also produced. What makes this essay engaging is that Wuthnow illustrates the implications of his subject in our own lives. His observations are both keen and perceptive. Written for the generally informed reader, the text is studious but not laborious. For all large public and academic religion collections.
David. L. Laughlin, MLS, St. Louis
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
David. L. Laughlin, MLS, St. Louis
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Innovative, engaging, and provocative." -- Wade Clark Roof, author of A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation
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- Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II (Studies in Church and State) by Robert Wuthnow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis by Robert Wuthnow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Capitol Hill (DC) (Images of America) by Paul K. Williams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner in Back Matter
- Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America by James Davison Hunter in Back Matter
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- Managing God's Business: Religious And Faith-based Organizations And Their Management by Malcolm Torry on 7 pages
- Steel City Gospel: Protestant Laity and Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh (Religion in History, Society and Culture) by Keith A. Zahniser in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way by Kimon Howland Sargeant in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles (Qualitative Studies in Religion) by Julie Ingersoll in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners by Nancy Tatom Ammerman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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