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112 produkter
Inventing American Religion
Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith
Inbunden, 2015
607 kr
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A billion-dollar a year polling industry claims to tell us not only which political candidates will win, but also how we are practicing our faith. Polls and surveys on American religion tell us how many Americans went to church last week, whether Americans have been born again, if there is a war on …
Inventing American Religion
Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith
E-bok, 2015
385 kr
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Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information. Pollsters tell us not only which political candidates will win, but how we are practicing our faith. How many Americans went to church last week? Have they been born again? Is Jesus as popular as Harry Potter? Polls …
Inventing American Religion
Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith
E-bok, 2015
385 kr
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Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information. Pollsters tell us not only which political candidates will win, but how we are practicing our faith. How many Americans went to church last week? Have they been born again? Is Jesus as popular as Harry Potter? Polls …
Christianity in the Twenty-First Century
Reflections on the Challenges Ahead
Häftad, 1995
406 kr
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Robert Wuthnow contributes to those reflections on religion that are cropping up at the end of the millennium by offering a sobering, realistic, and hopeful assessment of where the church is now, and where the church is heading.
Learning to Care
Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference
Inbunden, 1996
569 kr
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Wuthnow, a noted sociologist of religion, here improves our understanding of kindness in American life, and how people became kind and caring. He examines a cross-section of young volunteers to see how habits are cultivated before adulthood, and paints a compelling picture of the role of families, …
The Crisis in the Churches
Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe
Inbunden, 1997
693 kr
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America's churches have fallen on hard times. But this crisis, says Wuthnow, is more than economic; it is at bottom spiritual. He points to both the failure of the clergy to confront their financial problems head-on, and their neglect of the real spiritual needs of their predominantly middle-class …
Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Av Thomas Banchoff, Robert Wuthnow
Häftad, 2011
652 kr
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Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary …
Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Av BANCHOFF, Thomas Banchoff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
913 kr
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Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary …
Religion's Power
What Makes It Work
Inbunden, 2023
420 kr
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What makes religion so powerful? Why does it attract so many followers? Raise so much money? Influence how people vote? The usual answer is that religion is powerful because it offers divine hope. But there is more to it than that. Why does a worship service seem powerful? Why is it powerful to …
Religion's Power
What Makes It Work
E-bok, 2022
310 kr
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What makes religion so powerful? Why does it attract so many followers? Raise so much money? Influence how people vote? The usual answer is that religion is powerful because it offers divine hope. But there is more to it than that. Why does a worship service seem powerful? Why is it powerful to …
Religion's Power
What Makes It Work
E-bok, 2022
310 kr
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What makes religion so powerful? Why does it attract so many followers? Raise so much money? Influence how people vote? The usual answer is that religion is powerful because it offers divine hope. But there is more to it than that. Why does a worship service seem powerful? Why is it powerful to …
Nurturing Happiness
How Religion Shapes Emotional Practice
Inbunden, 2025
1233 kr
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How does religious faith contribute to happiness? The usual answer is that religious belief relieves the anxieties of ordinary life and that religious belonging provides emotional support. But a growing body of literature suggests that happiness is more complicated than that. Happiness is not only …
Nurturing Happiness
How Religion Shapes Emotional Practice
Häftad, 2025
292 kr
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How does religious faith contribute to happiness? The usual answer is that religious belief relieves the anxieties of ordinary life and that religious belonging provides emotional support. But a growing body of literature suggests that happiness is more complicated than that. Happiness is not only …
Nurturing Happiness
How Religion Shapes Emotional Practice
E-bok, 2025
306 kr
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How does religious faith contribute to happiness? The usual answer is that religious belief relieves the anxieties of ordinary life and that religious belonging provides emotional support. But a growing body of literature suggests that happiness is more complicated than that. Happiness is not only …
Nurturing Happiness
How Religion Shapes Emotional Practice
E-bok, 2025
306 kr
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How does religious faith contribute to happiness? The usual answer is that religious belief relieves the anxieties of ordinary life and that religious belonging provides emotional support. But a growing body of literature suggests that happiness is more complicated than that. Happiness is not only …
Christianity in the Twenty-first Century
Reflections on the Challenges Ahead
E-bok, 1995
184 kr
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In the year 2000--and beyond--what will the church be like? What challenges will it face? Will the church be able to provide a strong sense of community? Will it be an ethical force in the lives of Americans? And what role will religion play in politics and in the marketplace? In Christianity in …
Learning to Care
Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference
E-bok, 1995
257 kr
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Urgent calls have gone forth--from the White House and Congress, from schools, churches, synagogues, and other agencies--for Americans to become more involved in caring for the needy and in serving their communities. And as federal and state governments across the nation cut back on aid to the poor …
Crisis in the Churches
Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe
E-bok, 1997
367 kr
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At a time when already overworked clergy are being called upon by budget cutting politicians to do more for the poor, the sick, and the elderly, American churches are suffering persistent financial shortfalls. In fact, contrary to popular media images of millionaire televangelists, America''s …
Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Av Robert Wuthnow, Thomas Banchoff
E-bok, 2011
514 kr
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Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary …
Be Very Afraid
The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats
Inbunden, 2010
796 kr
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Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of ¨the country's best social scientists¨ by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as ¨tremendously valuable.¨ The New York Times calls him ¨temperate, balanced, compassionate,¨ adding, öne can't but admire Mr. Wuthnow's views.¨ A leading authority on …
Be Very Afraid
The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats
E-bok, 2010
375 kr
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Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country''s best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "tremendously valuable." The New York Times calls him "temperate, balanced, compassionate," adding, "one can''t but admire Mr. Wuthnow''s views." A leading authority …
Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Av Robert Wuthnow, Thomas Banchoff
E-bok, 2011
514 kr
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Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary …
Be Very Afraid
The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats
E-bok, 2010
375 kr
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Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country''s best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "tremendously valuable." The New York Times calls him "temperate, balanced, compassionate," adding, "one can''t but admire Mr. Wuthnow''s views." A leading authority …
Be Very Afraid
The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country's best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "tremendously valuable." The New York Times calls him "temperate, balanced, compassionate," adding, "one can't but admire Mr. Wuthnow's views." A leading authority on …
Producing the Sacred
An ESSAY on PUBLIC RELIGION
Häftad, 1994
356 kr
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What is Public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? These are the fundamental questions Robert Wuthnow addresses in Producing the Sacred.Wuthnow uses as a guiding assumption the idea that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the …
Cultural Analysis
The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas
Av Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
897 kr
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First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas.This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the …
Cultural Analysis
The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas
Av Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2515 kr
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First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas.This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the …
Meaning and Moral Order
Explorations in Cultural Analysis
Häftad, 1989
457 kr
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"Meaning and Moral Order" goes beyond classical, neoclassical, and poststructural theories of culture in its attempt to move away from problems of meaning to a more objective concept of culture. Innovative, controversial, challenging, it will compel scholars to rethink many of the assumptions on …
After Heaven
Spirituality in America Since the 1950s
Häftad, 2000
400 kr
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The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert Wuthnow's engrossing new book. Wuthnow uses in-depth interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how Americans, from teenagers to senior citizens, define their spiritual journeys. His findings …
Quiet Hand of God
Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism
Av Robert Wuthnow, John H. Evans
Häftad, 2002
428 kr
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Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism--a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, …
