Meaning and modernity : religion, polity, and self /
edited by Richard Madsen [and others] ; epilogue by Robert N. Bellah.
- xvii, 345 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-335) and index.
Introduction / "Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology / Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism / Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions / Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity / Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered / Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene / Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique / Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion / In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community / Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society / Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive / Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America / On Being a Christian and an American / Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots of Political Possibilities / Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World / Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan and Ann Swidler / [et al.] -- Jeffrey C. Alexander and Steven J. Sherwood -- Steven M. Tipton -- Ann Swidler -- S. N. Eisenstadt -- Philip S. Corski -- Richard Madsen -- Harvey Cox -- John A. Coleman, Jr. -- Albert J. Raboteau -- Robert Wuthnow -- Charles Taylor -- Nina Eliasoph -- Stanley Hauerwas -- William M. Sullivan -- Robert N. Bellah. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
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Religion and sociology--United States Postmodernism--Religious aspects Symbolism.