How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare food for people with AIDs, this volume tells the story of that time.
How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation c...
American spirituality with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as "The New Metaphysicals" makes clear, contemporary American spirituality has historic roots in the nineteenth century and a great deal in common with traditional religious movements. To explore this world, Courtney Bender combines research into the history of the movement with fieldwork in Cambridge, Massachusetts a key site of alternative religious inquiry from Emerson and William James to today. Through her ethnographic analysis, Bender...
American spirituality with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But,...
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that only pluralism can solve. Working comparatively across nations and disciplines, the essays in After Pluralism explore pluralism as a "term of art" that sets the norms of identity and the parameters of exchange, encounter, and conflict. Contributors locate pluralism's ideals in diverse...
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that i...
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that only pluralism can solve. Working comparatively across nations and disciplines, the essays in After Pluralism explore pluralism as a "term of art" that sets the norms of identity and the parameters of exchange, encounter, and conflict. Contributors locate pluralism's ideals in diverse...
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that i...
