TY - BOOK AU - Madsen,Richard TI - Meaning and modernity: religion, polity, and self SN - 0520226577 AV - BL60. M37 2001 U1 - 306.6 PY - 2002///] CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Religion and sociology KW - United States KW - Postmodernism KW - Religious aspects KW - Symbolism KW - Religion N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-335) and index; Introduction; Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan and Ann Swidler; [et al.] --; 1; "Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology; Jeffrey C. Alexander and Steven J. Sherwood --; 2; Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism; Steven M. Tipton --; 3; Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions; Ann Swidler --; 4; Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity; S. N. Eisenstadt --; 5; Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered; Philip S. Corski --; 6; Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene; Richard Madsen --; 7; Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique; Harvey Cox --; 8; Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion; John A. Coleman, Jr. --; 9; In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community; Albert J. Raboteau --; 10; Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society; Robert Wuthnow --; 11; Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive; Charles Taylor --; 12; Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America; Nina Eliasoph --; 13; On Being a Christian and an American; Stanley Hauerwas --; 14; Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots of Political Possibilities; William M. Sullivan --; Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World; Robert N. Bellah ER -