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What Americans Really Believe

Autor Rodney Stark
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 sep 2008
A shocking snapshot of the most current impulses in American religion. Rodney Stark reports the surprising findings of the 2007 Baylor Surveys of Religion, a follow up to the 2005 survey revealing most Americans believe in God or a higher power. This new volume highlights even more hot-button issues of religious life in our country. A must-read for anyone interested in Americans' religious beliefs and practices.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781602581784
ISBN-10: 1602581789
Pagini: 217
Ilustrații: tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Baylor University Press
Colecția Baylor University Press (US)

Recenzii

An indispensable resource for understanding the American public. - George H. Gallup Jr., American Public Opinion Statistician
All who find in statistics precise food for thought owe Stark and his colleagues at Baylor gratitude. -Publisher's Weekly
A worthy addition to the burgeoning survey data literature in the sociology of religion. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. -- CHOICE

Cuprins

List of Tables Introduction The Stability and Diversity of American Faith Part I Congregations 1 Church-going Labels Matter 2 Church Growth Competing for Members 3 Strict Churches The Reasons for their Popularity 4 The "Scattered" Church Traditional Congregations are not Going Away 5 Megachurches Supersizing the Faith Part II Beliefs and Practices 6 Religious Experiences God Told Me to Go to Church 7 Gender Women Believe More, Pray More 8 Heaven We are All Going There 9 God Love Makes a Difference 10 Evil Did Sin Cause the Hurricane? 11 Spirituality Religion and Spirituality Are Not Mutually Exclusive 12 Giving The Rich, the Poor, and the Widow's Mite 13 Personality Are We Hard-Wired for God? Part III Atheism and Irreligion 14 Atheism Godless Revolution Never Happened 15 Credulity New Age Believers in Big Foot 16 New Age Adherents Well-Educated, Formerly Irreligious Elites 17 The Irreligious Simply Unchurched--not Atheists Part IV The Public Square 18 Faith and Politics Is There a Secret Plot of Evangelicals to Take over the American Government? 19 Merry Christmas, Jesus It's Okay to Put Sacred Symbols in the Public Square 20 Incivility Talking about Faith in Public 21 Religious Media Consumption The DaVinci Code Effect 22 Civic Participation Faith as Social Capital 23 Going to College, Getting a Job What Happens when Mom and Dad Take Their Kids to Church Epilogue The Institute for the Study of Religion Contributors Notes