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9780520226579

Meaning and Modernity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520226579

  • ISBN10:

    0520226577

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

The five co-authors of our hugely successful Habits of the Heart--Bellah, Madison, Swidler, Sullivan, and Tipton-- reconvene to edit this collection of original pieces by some of the leading sociologists and religion scholars in the country. The purpose of the book is to assess the importance and impact of Robert Bellah's notion of symbolic realism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Richard Madsen
William M. Sullivan
Ann Swidler
Steven M. Tipton
``Mythic Gesturers'': Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology
1(14)
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Steven J. Sherwood
Social Differentation and Moral Pluralism
15(26)
Steven M. Tipton
Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions
41(15)
Ann Swidler
Mirror-Image Modernities: Constrasting Religious Permises of Japaneses and U.S. Modernity
56(22)
S. N. Eisenstadt
Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered
78(27)
Philip S. Gorski
Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene
105(19)
Richard Madsen
Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique
124(12)
Harvey Cox
Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion
136(14)
John A. Coleman, S.J.
In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community
150(13)
Albert J. Roboteau
Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congrations in American Civil Society
163(18)
Robert Withnow
Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive
181(14)
Charles Taylor
Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic American
195(29)
Nina Eliasoph
On Being a Christian and an American
224(12)
Stanley Hauerwas
Politics as the ``Public Use of Reason'': Religious Roots of Political Possibilities
236(19)
William M. Sullivan
Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World 255(22)
Robert N. Bellah
Notes 277(34)
Bibliography 311(26)
Contributors 337(4)
Index 341

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