Lived religion : faith and practice in everyday life / Meredith B. McGuire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGuire, Meredith B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life--United States.

Christian life.

United States--Religious life and customs.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we grasp the complex religious lives of individuals such as Peter, an ordained Protestant minister who has little attachment to any church but centers his highly committed religious practice on peace-and-justice activism? Or Hannah, a devout Jew whose rich spiritual life revolves around her women's spirituality group and the daily practice of meditative dance? Or Laura, who identifies as Catholic but rarely attends Mass, and engages daily in Buddhist-style meditation at her home altar arranged with symbols of Mexican American popular religion? Diverse religious practices such as these

Contents:

Everyday religion as lived

Contested meanings and definitional boundaries : historicizing the sociology of religion

Popular religious expressions today : U.S. Latinos and Latinas

Popular religions in practice today : southern white Evangelicals

Spirituality and materiality : why bodies matter

Embodied practices for healing and wholeness

Gendered spiritualities

Rethinking religious identity, commitment, and hybridity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-282) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045131-9

9786613009845

0-19-536833-9

0-19-972140-8

1-283-00984-6

OCLC:

703151477