Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded? Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson s "The Megachurch and the Mainline" provides new understandings...
Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those custo...
We think of the city as a place where anything goes. Take the sensational fantasies and lurid antics of single women on "Sex in the City" or young men on "Queer as Folk," and you might imagine the city as some kind of sexual playground a place where you can have any kind of sex you want, with whomever you like, anytime or anywhere you choose. But in "The Sexual Organization of the City, " Edward Laumann and company argue that this idea is a myth. Drawing on extensive surveys and interviews with Chicago adults, they show that the city is to the contrary a place where sexual choices and...
We think of the city as a place where anything goes. Take the sensational fantasies and lurid antics of single women on "Sex in the City" or young men...
The common goal of the contributors is to illuminate sexuality as a crucial site of conflict and dissent both within and between religious traditions. Thus, we have a collection of ten essays on themes emerging from the social scientific study of religion and sexuality in an array of cultural contexts. Together the essays examine four themes: fecundism as an ideology of reproduction; sexual identity and the life cycle; binary sexual categories; and relations of power and domination.
The common goal of the contributors is to illuminate sexuality as a crucial site of conflict and dissent both within and between religious traditions....
Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV." The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as a joke, highlights what has been a long history of religious anti-environmentalism. Given how firmly entrenched this sentiment has been, surprising inroads have been made by a new movement with few financial resources, which is deeply committed to promoting green religious traditions and creating a new environmental ethic. To Care for...
Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and go...
Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV." The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as a joke, highlights what has been a long history of religious anti-environmentalism. Given how firmly entrenched this sentiment has been, surprising inroads have been made by a new movement with few financial resources, which is deeply committed to promoting green religious traditions and creating a new environmental ethic. To Care for...
Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and go...
