Contemporary American Religion: An Ethnographic Reader

by Nancy L. Eiesland, Penny Edgell Becker, Penny Edgell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761991964
• ISBN13: 9780761991960
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"