Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 exercise and oral diaries offering a window into the presence and absence of religion and spirituality in ordinary lives and in ordinary physical and social spaces. The stories come from a diverse array of ninety - five Americans - - both conservative and liberal Protestants African American Protestants Catholics Jews Mormons Wiccans and people who claim no religious or spiritual proclivities - - across a range that stretches from committed religious believers to the spiritually neutral. Ammerman surveys how these people talk about what spirituality is how they seek and find experiences they deem spiritual and whether and how religious traditions and institutions are part of their spiritual lives.
Title: Sacred Stories Spiritual Tribes Finding Religion In Everyday Life
Author(s): Ammerman Nancy Tatom (Professor Of Sociology Of Religion School Of Theology And Department Of Sociology Professor Of Sociology Of Religion School Of Theology And Department Of Sociology Boston University Boston Ma)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199917365
Pages: 400 Pages, 33 Illus.
Publication Date: 9/12/2013
Category: Sociology