Women in the presence : constructing community and seeking spirituality in mainline Protestantism / Jody Shapiro Davie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davie, Jody Shapiro.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church group work--Case studies.

Church group work.

Small groups.

Women--Religious life.

Women.

Physical Description:

x, 163 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1995]

Summary:

"A beautifully written ethnography that provides new insight into the functioning of congregations and the meaning of spirituality at the end of the twentieth century. Jody Davie is correct in arguing that churches are abstractions masking the complex ways in which indviduals negotiate what it means to be spiritual and to have community within the smaller groups of which congregations are composed. She is especially adept at teasing out the 'languages of silence' that prevent religious conviction from being shared as openly and as intimately as many might hope it could be shared. Social scientists and religious leaders will find much in this book to stimulate their thinking about the ways in which American religion is changing." --Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-159) and index.

ISBN:

0812232860

0812215141

OCLC:

32311367