Penny Edgell: Cornell University Nancy L. Eiesland: Emory University

Contemporary American Religion is an ambitious anthology that, among its other aims, makes a compelling case for the importance of ethnographic research in the study of religious communities....This volume exhibits a keen sensitivity to religious transformation in America complemented by an awareness of changing scholarly conceptions of theory, ethnography, and cultural analysis.

• chapter 1 Penny Edgell Becker and Nancy L. Eiesland, Introductionchapter 2 1. Shoshanah Feher, Managing Strain, Contradictions, and Fluidity: Messianic Judaism and the Negotiation of a Religio-Ethnic Identitychapter 3 2. Matthew Lawson, Struggles for Mutual Reverence: Social Strategies and Religious Storieschapter 4 3. Edward R. Gray and Scott L. Thumma, The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity, and Religion in a Gay Barchapter 5 4. Janet Stocks, To Stay or to Leave?: Organizational Legitimacy in the Struggle for Change Among Evangelical Feministschapter 6 5. Penny Edgell Becker, What is Right? What is Caring? Moral Logic in Local Religious Lifechapter 7 6. Elfriede Wedam, Splitting Interests or Common Causes: Styles of Moral Reasoning in Opposing Abortionchapter 8 7. Tim Nelson, The Church and the Street: Race, Class, and Congregationchapter 9 8. Nancy L. Eiesland, Contending with a Giant: The Impact of a Megachurch on Exurban Religious Institutionschapter 10 9. Mike McMullen, The Religious Construction of a Global Identity: An Ethnographic Look at the Atlanta Bahai Communitychapter 11 Robert Wuthnow, Conclusionchapter 12 Referenceschapter 13 Index

Penny Edgell: Cornell University Nancy L. Eiesland: Emory University

Contemporary American Religion is an ambitious anthology that, among its other aims, makes a compelling case for the importance of ethnographic research in the study of religious communities....This volume exhibits a keen sensitivity to religious transformation in America complemented by an awareness of changing scholarly conceptions of theory, ethnography, and cultural analysis.

• chapter 1 Penny Edgell Becker and Nancy L. Eiesland, Introductionchapter 2 1. Shoshanah Feher, Managing Strain, Contradictions, and Fluidity: Messianic Judaism and the Negotiation of a Religio-Ethnic Identitychapter 3 2. Matthew Lawson, Struggles for Mutual Reverence: Social Strategies and Religious Storieschapter 4 3. Edward R. Gray and Scott L. Thumma, The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity, and Religion in a Gay Barchapter 5 4. Janet Stocks, To Stay or to Leave?: Organizational Legitimacy in the Struggle for Change Among Evangelical Feministschapter 6 5. Penny Edgell Becker, What is Right? What is Caring? Moral Logic in Local Religious Lifechapter 7 6. Elfriede Wedam, Splitting Interests or Common Causes: Styles of Moral Reasoning in Opposing Abortionchapter 8 7. Tim Nelson, The Church and the Street: Race, Class, and Congregationchapter 9 8. Nancy L. Eiesland, Contending with a Giant: The Impact of a Megachurch on Exurban Religious Institutionschapter 10 9. Mike McMullen, The Religious Construction of a Global Identity: An Ethnographic Look at the Atlanta Bahai Communitychapter 11 Robert Wuthnow, Conclusionchapter 12 Referenceschapter 13 Index

Penny Edgell: Cornell University Nancy L. Eiesland: Emory University

Contemporary American Religion is an ambitious anthology that, among its other aims, makes a compelling case for the importance of ethnographic research in the study of religious communities....This volume exhibits a keen sensitivity to religious transformation in America complemented by an awareness of changing scholarly conceptions of theory, ethnography, and cultural analysis.

• chapter 1 Penny Edgell Becker and Nancy L. Eiesland, Introductionchapter 2 1. Shoshanah Feher, Managing Strain, Contradictions, and Fluidity: Messianic Judaism and the Negotiation of a Religio-Ethnic Identitychapter 3 2. Matthew Lawson, Struggles for Mutual Reverence: Social Strategies and Religious Storieschapter 4 3. Edward R. Gray and Scott L. Thumma, The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity, and Religion in a Gay Barchapter 5 4. Janet Stocks, To Stay or to Leave?: Organizational Legitimacy in the Struggle for Change Among Evangelical Feministschapter 6 5. Penny Edgell Becker, What is Right? What is Caring? Moral Logic in Local Religious Lifechapter 7 6. Elfriede Wedam, Splitting Interests or Common Causes: Styles of Moral Reasoning in Opposing Abortionchapter 8 7. Tim Nelson, The Church and the Street: Race, Class, and Congregationchapter 9 8. Nancy L. Eiesland, Contending with a Giant: The Impact of a Megachurch on Exurban Religious Institutionschapter 10 9. Mike McMullen, The Religious Construction of a Global Identity: An Ethnographic Look at the Atlanta Bahai Communitychapter 11 Robert Wuthnow, Conclusionchapter 12 Referenceschapter 13 Index