Meaning and Modernity : Religion, Polity, and Self / Madsen/Sullivan; ed. by William M. Sullivan, Steven M. Tipton, Richard Madsen, Ann Swidler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madsen/Sullivan, Author.

Contributor:

Madsen, Richard, Editor.

Sullivan, William M., Editor.

Swidler, Ann, Editor.

Tipton, Steven M., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.) : 2 tables

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2002]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Deepening and developing the seminal vision of Habits of the Heart (California, 1985), this volume presents original essays by leading thinkers in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. "Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology

2. Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism

3. Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions

4. Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity

5. Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered

6. Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene

7. Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique

8. Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion

9. In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community

10. Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society

11. Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive

12. Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America

13. On Being a Christian and an American

14. Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots of Political Possibilities

Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-92606-4

OCLC:

1414457646