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Author: Titus Hjelm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-01-21
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1136854134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have emerged. This book fills this gap by providing a definitive work on the impact of religion on social problems, religion as a solution to social problems, and religion as a social problem in itself.
Author: Frank M. Loewenberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780231064521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 1872
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sean McCloud
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9004171428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClass has always played a role in American religion. Class differences in religious life are inevitably felt by both those in the pews and those on the outside looking in. This volume starts a long overdue discussion about how class continues to matter - and perhaps even ways in which it does not - in American religion. Class is indeed important, whether one examines it through analysis of events and documents, surveys and interviews, or participant observation of religious groups. The chapters herein examine class as a reality that is both material and symbolic, individual and corporate. "Religion and Class in America" examines the myriad ways in which class continues to interact with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and group affiliations of American religion.
Author: Nelson Rollin Burr
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Segundo Pantoja
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-09-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9047407946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation is Latinos' number one concern. This volume offers an analysis of why many are underachieving, while pointing to the role of religion in helping Latinos improve their academic outlook. Parents, researchers and practitioners will benefit from understanding the importance of religion in the educational experience of Hispanics.
Author: Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-09-22
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0191092592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulations of the secularization thesis: the claim that modernizations brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status of religion. For Wilson, secularization refers to the fact that religion has lost influence at the societal, the institutional, and the individual level. Individual secularization is about the loss of authority of the Churches to define what people should believe, practise and accept as moral principles guiding their lives. In other words, individual piety may still persist, however, if it develops independently of religious authorities, then it is an indication of individual secularization. Wilson stresses that the consequences of the process of societalization in modern societies and on this basis he formulated his thesis that secularization is linked to the decline of community and is a concomitant of societalization. Revised and updated, Steve Bruce builds on Wilson's work by noting the changes in religious culture of the UK and US, in an appendix on major changes since the 1960s. Bruce also provides a critical response to the core ideas of Religion in Secular Society.
Author: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 1878
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1467464627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of “high” culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal—showing how white evangelicals’ embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.
Author: Charles H. Lippy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0415617375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a fresh, engaging multi-disciplinary introduction to religion in contemporary America. Students and instructors will find the combination of historical and sociological perspectives an invaluable aid to understanding this fascinating but complex field.
