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Zusatztext Nancy Ammerman's Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes offers the most in-depth, yet wide-ranging mapping of religious/spiritual/secular sensibilities in the everyday lives of contemporary Americans yet to emerge. She weaves a tapestry that shatters many of our taken-for-granted assumptions about people's circumscribed life-worlds. The book deserves a serious reading on the part of anyone who would try to describe this emerging, but exceedingly complex mix of the sacred and the secular. Informationen zum Autor Nancy Tatom Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion in the School of Theology and Department of Sociology at Boston University. Klappentext Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual. "Nancy Ammerman's Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes offers the most in-depth, yet wide-ranging mapping of religious/spiritual/secular sensibilities in the everyday lives of contemporary Americans yet to emerge. She weaves a tapestry that shatters many of our taken-for-granted assumptions about people's circumscribed life-worlds. The book deserves a serious reading on the part of anyone who would try to describe this emerging, but exceedingly complex mix of the sacred and the secular." --Wade Clark Roof, J.F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, University of California at Santa Barbara Zusammenfassung Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; LIST OF TABLES ; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CAPTIONS ; CHAPTER 1. IN SEARCH OF RELIGION IN EVERYDAY LIFE ; CHAPTER 2. "SPIRITUALITY" AND "RELIGION": WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? ; CHAPTER 3. SPIRITUAL PRACTICES IN EVERYDAY LIFE ; CHAPTER 4. RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES AND SPIRITUAL CONVERSATIONS ; CHAPTER 5. EVERYDAY LIFE AT HOME ; CHAPTER 6. NINE TO FIVE: SPIRITUAL PRESENCE AT WORK ; CHAPTER 7. EVERYDAY PUBLIC LIFE: CIRCLES OF SPIRITUAL PRESENCE AND ABSENCE ; CHAPTER 8. BODIES AND SPIRITS: HEALTH, ILLNESS AND MORTALITY ; CHAPTER 9. SPIRITUAL TRIBES: TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION IN EVERYDAY LIFE ; APPENDIX 1. PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ; APPENDIX 2. CODING AND ANALYZING STORIES ; APPENDIX 3. RESEARCH PROTOCOLS ; NOTES ; REFERENCES ; INDEX ...
