The Price Was: $29.95
Please check the actual price here, it could change
Related Products- The Restructuring of American Religion
- Good News from the Barrio: Prophetic Witness for the Church
- Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate
- Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X
- The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Future of Christianity Trilogy)
| Product Information | Technical Information | Customer Reviews |
Amazon.com Review
In The Restructuring of American Religion, Robert Wuthnow examined the changing patterns of institutional religion in contemporary America. In After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s, he makes a similar analysis of personal spirituality. His basic argument is that professional and social mobility makes it hard for Americans to sustain spiritual life because they don't feel rooted in one place; therefore, they embark on spiritual searches "characterized more often by dabbling than by depth." In contrast to these "dwelling-oriented" and "seeking-oriented" spiritualities, Wuthnow observes that increasing numbers of religious people are turning to "practice-oriented" spirituality--"making a deliberate attempt to relate to the sacred" through disciplines such as reading, prayer, and service. Wuthnow is passionately interested in the question of how an individual's search for spiritual identity affects our society, so he explains that although practice-oriented spirituality may initially seem to weaken the authority of religious institutions, spiritual practices "ultimately sustain these institutions by giving individuals the moral fortitude to participate in them without expecting too much from them." Wuthnow's prose is clean and clear, and his argumentation is thoroughly humane: every idea is conveyed through stories taken from interviews with hundreds of people of varying ages, races, religions, and classes. After Heaven stands with Wuthnow's previous work, and Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart as a landmark in the sociology of religion. --Michael Joseph Gross
SexyMandarin Learn Mandarin in an unconventional way Learn Mandarin in an unconventional way ... Sign up now and get FREE access to all our lessons with our SexyMandarin teachers. Heaven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which ... The Yogi Bhajan RSS Cult : Phallus Worship And The Shiv Shakti ... The Yogi Bhajan RSS 'Sikh' Cult is a Hindu RSS affiliated cult. More information about them can be obtained here: Gursant Singh's Website And here : The Youtube ... American Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American Jews, also known as Jewish Americans, are American citizens of the Jewish faith or Jewish ethnicity. The Jewish community in the United States is composed ... The Fastest Growing Religion in America Is... Yolohub Do you know what the fastest growing religion in America is? According to the latest U.S. religion census that was just released on May 1, 2012, the fastest growing ... CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Heaven - NEW ADVENT: Home In the Holy Bible the term heaven denotes, in the first place, the blue firmament, or the region of the clouds that pass along the sky. Genesis 1:20 speaks of the ... Pakistani Christians live in fear after girl's blasphemy arrest ... ISLAMABAD -- Margrett Ghafoor, a Christian teacher in majority-Muslim Pakistan, says her lesson for the children she teaches has always been the same. "My message is ... The Awesome Argentina Revival - Lessons in Evangelism and ... The Awesome Argentina Revival - Lessons in Evangelism and Spiritual Warfare from Argentina by Peter Wagner edited by Chris Simpson and David Little After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s: Robert ... In The Restructuring of American Religion , Robert Wuthnow examined the changing patterns of institutional religion in contemporary America. In After Heaven ... Islam: Making a True Difference in the World - One Body at a Time The Religion of Peace: Making a true difference in the world - one body at a time
