Contemporary American religion
Subtitle: an ethnographic reader
By: edited by Penny Edgell Becker and Nancy L. Eiesland.
Contributors: Becker, Penny Edgell.; Eiesland, Nancy L., 1964-
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: United States -- Religion -- 1960- -- Case studies; United States -- Religious life and customs -- Case studies; United States -- Church history -- 20th century -- Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Developing interpretations   ethnography and the restructuring of knowledge in a changing field / Penny Edgell Becker and Nancy L. Eiesland; title: Managing strain, contradictions, and fluidity: Messianic Judaism and the negotiation of a religio-ethnic identity / Shoshanah Feher; title: Struggles for mutual reverence: social strategies and religious stories / Matthew P. Lawson; title: The gospel hour: liminality, identity, and religion in a gay bar / Edward R. Gray and Scott L. Thumma; title: To stay or to leave?: organizational legitimacy in the struggle for change among evangelical feminists / Janet Stocks; title: What is right? what is caring? moral logics in local religious life / Penny Edgell Becker; title: Splitting interests or common causes: styles of moral reasoning in opposing abortion / Elfriede Wedam; title: The church and the street: race, class, and congregation / Timothy J. Nelson; title: Contending with a giant: the impact of a megachurch on exurban religious institutions / Nancy L. Eiesland; title: The religious construction of a global identity: an ethnographic look at the Atlanta Bahá í̕ Community / Mike McMullen; title: Conclusion: The cultural turn: stories, logics, and the quest for identity in American religion / Robert Wuthnow.