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Sacred stories, spiritual tribes finding religion in everyday life
Title:
Sacred stories, spiritual tribes finding religion in everyday life
Author:
Ammerman, Nancy Tatom, 1950-
ISBN:
9780199896455
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (pages cm.)
Contents:
In search of religion in everyday life -- "Spirituality" and "religion": what are we talking about? -- Spiritual practices in everyday life -- Religious communities and spiritual conversations -- Everyday life at home -- Nine to five: spiritual presence at work -- Everyday public life: circles of spiritual presence and absence -- Bodies and spirits: health, illness and mortality -- Spiritual tribes: toward a sociology of religion in everyday life -- Participants and their religious communities -- Coding and analyzing stories -- Research protocols.
Abstract:
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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