Meaning and modernity : religion, polity, and self
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Meaning and modernity : religion, polity, and self
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
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xvii, 345 p. ; 24 cm.
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9780520226562
9780520226579
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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.
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction | p. ix |
1. "Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology | p. 1 |
2. Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism | p. 15 |
3. Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions | p. 41 |
4. Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity | p. 56 |
5. Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered | p. 78 |
6. Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene | p. 105 |
7. Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique | p. 124 |
8. Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion | p. 136 |
9. In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community | p. 150 |
10. Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society | p. 163 |
11. Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive | p. 181 |
12. Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America | p. 195 |
13. On Being a Christian and an American | p. 224 |
14. Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots of Political Possibilities | p. 236 |
Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World | p. 255 |
Notes | p. 277 |
Bibliography | p. 311 |
Contributors | p. 337 |
Index | p. 341 |
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction | p. ix |
1. "Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology | p. 1 |
2. Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism | p. 15 |
3. Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions | p. 41 |
4. Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity | p. 56 |
5. Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered | p. 78 |
6. Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene | p. 105 |
7. Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique | p. 124 |
8. Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion | p. 136 |
9. In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community | p. 150 |
10. Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society | p. 163 |
11. Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive | p. 181 |
12. Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America | p. 195 |
13. On Being a Christian and an American | p. 224 |
14. Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots of Political Possibilities | p. 236 |
Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World | p. 255 |
Notes | p. 277 |
Bibliography | p. 311 |
Contributors | p. 337 |
Index | p. 341 |
University of California Press,
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Madsen, Richard, 1941-
2001
9780520226562
9780520226579
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
SD_ILS:804074
306.6 M183M
Meaning and modernity : religion, polity, and self
Meaning and modernity : religion, polity, and self
Meaning and modernity : religion, polity, and self
Meaning and modernity :
Madsen, Richard, 1941-
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