American Piety
Title | American Piety PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Stark |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1968-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780520012103 |
American Piety - the Nature of Religious Commitment
Title | American Piety - the Nature of Religious Commitment PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Stark |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Religion and sociology |
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American Piety
Title | American Piety PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Stark |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
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American Piety
Title | American Piety PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Stark |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2023-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520342798 |
How religious are Americans these days? How many still believe in God, in Biblical miracles, in heaven and hell? Do people pray? How much money is being given to churches, by Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and other groups? American Piety, the first of a three-volume study of religious commitment, answers these and a host of other questions about the contemporary religious scene. Particularly startling are the contrasts in beliefs, practices, and experiences revealed among the eleven major Christian denominations whose membership is compared.
American Grace
Title | American Grace PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Putnam |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 720 |
Release | 2012-02-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1416566732 |
Draws on three national surveys on religion, as well as research conducted by congregations across the United States, to examine the profound impact it has had on American life and how religious attitudes have changed in recent decades.
A Secular Age
Title | A Secular Age PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Taylor |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 889 |
Release | 2018-09-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0674986911 |
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
ISS 14 Islam and Society
Title | ISS 14 Islam and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Riaz Hassan |
Publisher | Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2013-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0522862578 |
The central focus of this volume is to explore and highlight the nexus between the ideology of Islam and social and cultural milieus with the aim of reconceptualising the sacred as a socially constructed reality and not a transcendental supernatural phenomenon. From this perspective, human agency and society become the main focus for shaping, perpetuating and institutionalising religious beliefs, ideas and practices, opening up space for empirical and sociological analyses of religious phenomena. The seven essays in this volume seek to explore and examine some of the key debates in contemporary sociology of Islam. The topics explored are: social factors in the origins of Islam; social theory and Muslim society; Islam and politics in South Asia; Muslim piety; anti-Semitism; the social foundations of Muhammad's prophetic mission, with a special reference to Arab historical memory and the role of his first wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid; and the barriers to social inclusion of Australian Muslims in Australian society.