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Meaning and modernity
Meaning and modernity: religion, polity, and self
edited by Richard Madsen... [et al.]; epilogue by Robert N. Bellah
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
ISBN: 0520226569   DDC: 306.6   LCC: BL60   Edition: (alk. paper)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-335) and index.

Introduction /Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan and Ann Swidler
/[et al.] --1."Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural
Sociology /Jeffrey C. Alexander and Steven J. Sherwood --2.Social
Differentiation and Moral Pluralism /Steven M. Tipton --3.Saving the
Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions /Ann Swidler
--4.Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of
Japanese and U.S. Modernity /S. N. Eisenstadt --5.Calvinism and
Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered /Philip S. Corski
--6.Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral
Integration in the Modern Ecumene /Richard Madsen --7.Mammon and the
Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique /Harvey Cox
--8.Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate
of Hospitality to Religion /John A. Coleman, Jr. --9.In Search of
Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community /Albert J.
Raboteau --bnatoc

10.Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations
in American Civil Society /Robert Wuthnow --11.Democracy, Inclusive
and Exclusive /Charles Taylor --12.Raising Good Citizens in a Bad
Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America
/Nina Eliasoph --13.On Being a Christian and an American /Stanley
Hauerwas --14.Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots
of Political Possibilities /William M. Sullivan --Epilogue. Meaning
and Modernity: America and the World /Robert N. Bellah.bnatoc

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Dewey Class: 306.6 -- Culture & institutions
LCC Number: BL60

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xvii, 345 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition Info: (alk. paper)

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