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The civic life of American religion / edited by Paul Lichterman and C. Brady Potts.
LIBRA BL60 .C57 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and civil society--United States.
- Religion and civil society.
- Religion and sociology--United States.
- Religion and sociology.
- United States.
- Voluntarism--Religious aspects.
- Voluntarism.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 164 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The civic life of American religion : an introductory statement / Paul Lichterman and C. Brady Potts
- The varieties of civic experience / Michael Schudson
- Building religious communities, building the common good: a skeptical appreciation / Nancy Ammerman
- Congregations' significance to American civic life / Mark Chaves
- Beyond savior, victim, and sinner : neighborhood civic life and "absent presence" in the religious district / Omar M. McRoberts
- How religion circulates in America's local public square / Paul Lichterman
- A tacit sense of evil? The meaning of politics in United Methodist debates over homosexuality / Dawne Moon
- Conclusion : rethinking religion's civic life / Paul Lichterman and C. Brady Potts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804757959
- 080475795X
- 9780804757966
- 0804757968
- OCLC:
- 225876047
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