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Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes : Finding Religion in Everyday Life.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (395 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199896455
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred Stories, Spiritual TribesDDC classification:
  • 306.60973
LOC classification:
  • BL2525.A5635 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. In Search of Religion in Everyday Life -- 2. "Spirituality" and "Religion": What Are We Talking About? -- 3. Spiritual Practices in Everyday Life -- 4. Religious Communities and Spiritual Conversations -- 5. Everyday Life at Home -- 6. Nine to Five: Spiritual Presence at Work -- 7. Everyday Public Life: Circles of Spiritual Presence and Absence -- 8. Bodies and Spirits: Health, Illness, and Mortality -- 9. Spiritual Tribes: Toward a Sociology of Religion in Everyday Life -- Appendix 1. Participants and Their Religious Communities -- Appendix 2. Coding and Analyzing Stories -- Appendix 3. Research Protocols -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Participants (By Pseudonym) -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. In Search of Religion in Everyday Life -- 2. "Spirituality" and "Religion": What Are We Talking About? -- 3. Spiritual Practices in Everyday Life -- 4. Religious Communities and Spiritual Conversations -- 5. Everyday Life at Home -- 6. Nine to Five: Spiritual Presence at Work -- 7. Everyday Public Life: Circles of Spiritual Presence and Absence -- 8. Bodies and Spirits: Health, Illness, and Mortality -- 9. Spiritual Tribes: Toward a Sociology of Religion in Everyday Life -- Appendix 1. Participants and Their Religious Communities -- Appendix 2. Coding and Analyzing Stories -- Appendix 3. Research Protocols -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Participants (By Pseudonym) -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual.

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