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  • American Parishes

    Remaking Local Catholicism

    by Tricia C. Bruce, Brian Starks, Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, John A. Coleman, S.J., Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby0, Tia Noelle Pratt1, Gary J. Adler Jr.3 ...
    Series series Catholic Practice in North America
    Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Studying Lived Religion

    Contexts and Practices

    by Nancy Tatom Ammerman ...
    Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday lifeLook around you as you walk down the street; somewhere, usually hidden in plain sight, there will be traces of religion. Perhaps it is the person who walks past with a Christian tattoo or a Muslim hijab. Perhaps it is the poster announcing a charity auction at the local synagogue. Or ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes

    Finding Religion in Everyday Life

    by Nancy Tatom Ammerman ...
    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. In addition to interviews and observation, Ammerman bases her findings on a photo elicitation ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Everyday Religion

    Observing Modern Religious Lives

    Edited by Nancy T. Ammerman ...
    Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with religion. In the first century of sociology's history as a discipline, the reigning concern was explaining the emergence of the modern world, and that brought with it an expectation that religion would simply fade from the scene as societies became diverse, complex, and enlightened. As the century approached its end, however, a variety ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society

    Remaking Our Lives

    Edited by Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Wade Clark Roof ...
    Until recently, religious institutions have been organized to suit the traditional American family, where the wife stayed at home, caring for children. Today, churches and synagogues are beginning to adapt to the reality of the American family: dual-career marriages, high levels of divorce, interfaith marriages, partnerships that may not be marriages. Religious organizations must serve families ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

    by Andrew J. Cherlin ...
    In a landmark book that's "intriguing [and] provocative" and presents "an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox—we idealize marriage and yet we’re so bad at it” (The New York Times).Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce ... Read more

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  • Changing Lenses

    Restorative Justice for Our Times

    by Howard Zehr ...
    Does the criminal justice system actually help victims and offenders? What does justice look like for those who have been harmed? For those who have done harm? Twenty-five years after it was first published, Changing Lenses by Howard Zehr remains the classic text of the restorative justice field.Now with valuable author updates on the changing landscape of restorative justice and a new section of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Shame

    A Brief History

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Series series History of Emotions
    Shame varies as an individual experience and in its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame’s power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships.Peter N. Stearns draws on his ... Read more

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  • The Thought of Work

    by John W. Budd ...
    John W. Budd's The Thought of Work provides a much needed and highly eloquent statement of the meanings and orientations to work across time and nations. It is essential reading for students of work from senior scholars to beginning undergraduates.— Randy Hodson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences The Ohio State University and past editor ― American Sociological ReviewBy ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • We Can't Teach What We Don't Know

    White Teachers, Multiracial Schools

    by Gary R. Howard ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Making a case for the “fierce urgency of now,” this new edition deepens the discussion of race and social justice in education with new and updated material. Aligned with our nation’s ever more diverse student population, it speaks to what good teachers know, what they do, and how they embrace culturally responsive teaching. This essential text is widely used in teacher preparation courses and for ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Death of Character

    Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil

    by James Davison Hunter ...
    The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here in their own words-shed a whole new light on what we can expect from moral education. Targeting new theories of education and the prominence of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I Bring the Voices of My People

    A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation

    by Chanequa Walker-Barnes ...
    Series series Prophetic Christianity (PC)
    Disrupting the racist and sexist biases in conversations on reconciliationChanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation movement is incapable of responding to modern-day racism. She demonstrates how reconciliation's roots in the evangelical, male-centered Promise Keepers' movement has resulted in a patriarchal and largely symbolic effort, focused upon ... Read more

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