Engaged spirituality : social change and American religion /

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While scholars have long recognized the importance that religion and religious organizations have played in social activism, they have typically seen spirituality as a private matter with few practical implications. In Engaged Spirituality, Gregory C. Stanczak challenges this assumption, arguing tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stanczak, Gregory C., 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Spirituality > Social aspects > United States.
Religion and social problems > United States.
Social change > Religious aspects.
Social change > United States.
Spiritualité > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Religion et problèmes sociaux > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION > General.
Religion and social problems
Social change
Social change > Religious aspects
Spirituality > Social aspects
Spiritualität
Religionssoziologie
Sozialer Wandel
Spiritualiteit.
Sociale aspecten.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bridging the gap: the split between spirituality and society
  • Biography, behavior, and belief: the sources of spirituality
  • Acting on faith: social roles in expressing spirituality
  • Keeping the faith in action: cultivating spiritual practice
  • Experience and emotion: the influence of spiritual feelings
  • Degrees of social integration: toward a theory of engaged spirituality
  • Lived spirituality and the gamut of social action.

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