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Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual.

In addition to interviews and observation, Ammerman bases her findings on a photo elicitation exercise and oral diaries, offering a window into the presence and absence of religion and spirituality in ordinary lives and in ordinary physical and social spaces. The stories come from a diverse array of ninety-five Americans -- both conservative and liberal white Protestants, African American Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Wiccans, and people who claim no religious or spiritual proclivities -- across a range that stretches from committed religious believers to the spiritually neutral. Ammerman surveys how these people talk about what spirituality is, how they seek and find experiences they deem spiritual, and whether and how religious traditions and institutions are part of their spiritual lives.
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    Oxford University Press
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    September 12, 2013
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    English
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  8. Print length
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"This book is an imporatnat resource for those interested in the study of religion, the phenomenon of identifying oneself as 'spiritucal but not religious,' and most particularly the survival of religion in America...The book would be appropriate for scholars, religious professionals , and dedicated readers."--Anglican Theological Review

"An interesting, organized and well-written book. Ammerman s masterful work will reward a patient and thoughtful reader with a close contour map of everyday religion."--Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

"Remarkable...Ammerman's empirical findings are an important addition to the growing body of literature challenging scholarly attempts to delineate religion from spirituality that have tended to align the former with traditional religious institutions and practices and the latter with individualized private spirituality."--Catholic Books Review

"Provides a helpful glimpse into how 'non experts' in America talk about and practice religion in their everyday lives...Besides making a wonderful addition to the syllabus of different graduate courses such as practical theology, spirituality, and the sociology of religion, Sacred Stories could be helpful for church book group discussions on everyday religion." --Ecclesial Practices

"Sacred Stories brings to light the myriad ways our contemporaries find religious meaning in their twenty-first century lives. It succeeds in launching readers into new conversations about what spirituality is, how we go about identifying activities and experiences as in some way spiritual, and how existing traditions connect with specific moments of everyday religion." --Church History

"This comprehensive, thought-provoking work adds immeasurably to scholarship in sociology of religion and will help set agendas in sociology of religion for years to come." --Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

"By setting aside the typical categories academic researchers use when studying contemporary religion, Ammerman and her team document the complex ways religion shows up in a wide range of domains: in communities and conversations, in homes, at work and in public life, and not surprisingly around matters of health, illness and death." --Religion Dispatches

"Nancy Ammerman's Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes offers the most in-depth, yet wide-ranging mapping of religious/spiritual/secular sensibilities in the everyday lives of contemporary Americans yet to emerge. She weaves a tapestry that shatters many of our taken-for-granted assumptions about people's circumscribed life-worlds. The book deserves a serious reading on the part of anyone who would try to describe this emerging, but exceedingly complex mix of the sacred and the secular." --Wade Clark Roof, J.F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, University of California at Santa Barbara

"Ammerman's innovative account of religiosity in the United States uses qualitative methods, especially elicited narratives, in an original way that combines depth with considerable breadth... A fascinating set of portraits of religiousness and spirituality among a highly diverse group that mirrors major portions of the U.S. religious landscape." --Sociology of Religion

"A book this packed with ideas and data will certainly pay back more than one reading as we sociologists of religion continue to move beyond the impasse between secularization theory and the rational choice paradigm, beyond the idea that spirituality is limited to the "spiritual not religious," and beyond the oppositional distinction between the sacred and profane. Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes will undoubtedly help sociologists get our minds around the fact that mapping American religion today requires abandoning false dichotomies and embracing the messy (but nonetheless patterned) realities of religion in and out of various God boxes." --American Journal of Sociology

"Nancy Ammerman's recent work has helped to lead a growing group of scholars who, disenchanted with the perceived dead ends of the secularization versus rational choice debate of the 1990s, recommend new ways of thinking about and studying religion. Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes, which uses a lived religion approach, is a welcome addition to these efforts. Ammerman's innovative account of religiosity in the United States uses qualitative methods, especially 20 elicited narratives, in an original way that combines depth with considerable breadth." --Sociology of Religion

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Documents the extent to which everyday "secular" activities are often experienced as more-than-ordinary

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (September 12, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199917361
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199917365
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
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I am a sociologist who writes about religion - how it is organized and how it is practiced. I love observing all kinds of religions wherever they happen. My new book, Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices, invites readers along to discover, observe, and think about the religious things you see everyday.

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Jay Augustine
5.0 out of 5 stars It helps identify how people experience religion and spirituality in a postmodern era.
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018
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What a great read! I used this is a sociology of religion class and enjoyed it more than words can express. It’s also been extremely helpful in my parish ministry/pastoral service. I highly recommend it!
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4.0 out of 5 stars important intervention but presented rather disappointingly
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2015
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This has a really important intervention against sociological and pundit-based common wisdoms about the supposed polar differences between "spiritual" and "religious." That's three steps forward and creates an argument that needs to be widely digested and discussed. But the descriptive chapters in the middle sections of the book are at least one step backward-- far too repetitive and at times surprisingly lame and/or limited in scope. Stick with first couple of chapters or the article version of the same-- that's five stars. Conclusion is worth five stars for the content and four for presentation. As for the rest of the book, it was a let-down.
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Jan-Olav Henriksen
5.0 out of 5 stars Illuminating and nuanced
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2014
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An outstanding study of contemporary religious and spiritual life in the US. Challenges some common assumptions of secularization and argues for a wider theoretical approach to the understanding of contemporary religion. Thoroughly researched.
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Rebecca Boyer
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2015
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A great read!
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T J
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting way of describing new perspective of religion, spirituality or none.
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2021
There is a lot to absorb, especially since it’s a different way of seeing people in traditional families as well as news ways of people living together or alone. It did give me food for thought about my own experience in a family of different persuasions.
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Rev. Luther C. Pierce
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015
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Lots of technical detail. I didn't make it all the way through.
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Allen
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2013
This is some original and compelling work on how everyday people connect spirituality to the rest of their lives. It's a must-read for anyone wanting to understand what it means to be "spiritual" to the many who embrace that label and religious leaders seeking to reach a society which still tells sacred stories and lives in spiritual tribes, even amid the decline of organized religion.
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