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No single narrative or theory can describe the varieties of religious experience in North America today. The tidy dichotomies of liberal/ conservative, public/private, local/global, and renewal/secularization make little sense once specific congregations are examined closely. To understand the shifting boundaries of contemporary religious expressions, new tools are needed. Contemporary American Religion collects qualitative, on-the-ground studies of local congregations by up-and-coming religious scholars. Ethnography combined with more traditional sociological methods, help make sense of complex religious communities-from Messianic Jews to evangelical feminists, from Gospel Hour at a gay bar to exurban megachurches. This collection covers a wide span of the religious landscape, always trying to uncover new theoretical insights. Essential reading for classes in sociology of religion, contemporary American religion, and anthropology of religion.

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• Full title: Contemporary American Religion
• Subtitle: An Ethnographic Reader
• Author: Penny Edgell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780761991960
• ISBN: 0761991964
• ID: 04915247
• Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S.
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 154 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 1997

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