A5046642480- Religion, Society, and Development
- Religion and Society Interactions
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Mormonism, Religion, and History
- Christian Theology and Mission
- Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Religious Education and Schools
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Theology and Canon Law Studies
- Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
- Catholicism and Religious Studies
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Jewish Identity and Society
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Theology and Philosophy of Evil
- Evolution and Science Education
Boston University
2003-2021
British Sociological Association
2018
University of Notre Dame
2013
Georgetown University
2013
University of California, San Diego
2013
Yale University
1982-2013
Pennsylvania State University
2013
Rice University
2013
New York University Press
2006-2007
Hartford Seminary
1997-2002
Based on a national telephone survey and 300 personal interviews with evangelicals other churchgoing Protestants, this study provides an analysis of the commitments, beliefs, concerns practices group. Examining how interact attempt to influence secular society, text argues that traditional, orthodox evangelicalism endures because challenges structures our modern pluralistic environment. It also looks beyond explore problems traditional religious belief practice in world.
“Spirituality” often has been framed in social science research as an alternative to organized “religion,” implicitly or explicitly extending theoretical arguments about the privatization of religion. This article uses in‐depth qualitative data from a religiously diverse U.S. sample argue that this either/or distinction not only fails capture empirical reality American religion, it does no justice complexity spirituality. An inductive discursive analysis reveals four primary cultural...
Bible believer (also Bible-believer, Bible-believing Christian, Church ) is a self-description by conservative Christians to differentiate their teachings from others who see non- or extrabiblical tradition as higher equal in authority. In normal usage, means an individual organisation that believes the Christian true some significant way. However, this combination of words given unique meaning fundamentalist Protestant circles, where it equated with belief contains no theological...
Preface and Acknowledgments List of Tables Illustrations Captions Chapter 1. In Search Religion in Everyday Life 2. Spirituality Religion: What Are We Talking About? 3. Spiritual Practices 4. Religious Communities Conversations 5. at Home 6. Nine to Five: Presence Work 7. Public Life: Circles Absence 8. Bodies Spirits: Health, Illness Mortality 9. Tribes: Toward a Sociology Appendix Participants Their Coding Analyzing Stories Research Protocols Notes References Index
Over the last three decades, fruitful new lines of research and theorizing have revealed inadequacy secularization rational choice explanations religion. This article argues that sociological understandings religion can best advance now by building on empirical findings emerged under banner "lived religion," but grounding work in theories social practice. Going beyond Western, individualist focus recent research, approach explicated this details a multidimensional lens for study practices...
This address is a contribution to the study of "lived religion," that is, embodied and enacted forms spirituality occur in everyday life. Like children's books ask "where's Waldo," sociologists are invited think about many ways which we need refocus our work order see religion often appears unexpected places. As discipline has broadened its geographical cultural vision, it also must broaden understanding what is. Religion neither an all-or-nothing category nor phenomenon confined single...
Winner, 1992 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion With unbending fairness, Ammerman provides a historical and sociological context to unfold events issues that have dramatically changed shape Southern Baptists. A benchmark study religious body in conflict, this work is leading authority on present status Baptists.--Religious Studies Review Nancy knows ...of value worth lives people who operate intact biblical-literal cultures...She takes their conflicts...
Journal Article Ritual Healing in Suburban America, by Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988, xii + 324 pp. $39; $13 (paper) Get access Nancy T. Ammerman Emory Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology Religion, Volume 50, Issue 4, Winter 1989, Pages 434–435, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710782 Published: 01 December 1989
When most people think of Cambridge, Massachusetts, they probably about the prominent institutions higher education located there and imagine it as among secular places in North America. Who knew that around every corner one might find spiritual pilgrims sort exploring their past lives chakras? Courtney Bender's choice location for this study “individual religious experience” provides, then, exactly paradox provokes a fascinating exploration ways which spirituality is “entangled” (to use her...
Journal Article Congregation and Community, by Nancy Tatom Ammerman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997, xvi + 434 pp. $24.00 (pbk.) Get access Mark A. Shibley Loyola Chicago Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 59, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 89–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711967 Published: 01 March 1998
Journal Article Organized Religion in a Voluntaristic Society Get access Nancy T. Ammerman * Hartford Seminary Direct correspondence to Ammerman, Center for Social and Religious Research, Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Hartford, CT 06105. Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 58, Issue 3, Fall 1997, Pages 203–215, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712213 Published: 01 October 1997