Lichterman Elusive Togetherness

Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4295-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 52, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lichterman, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

CHAPTER ONE: In Search of the Social Spiral 7

CHAPTER TWO: Studying the Social Spiral 42

CHAPTER THREE: Networkers and Volunteers Reaching Out 60

CHAPTER FOUR: Crying Out: Social Critics 99

CHAPTER FIVE: Christ-like Care: Social Servants 133

CHAPTER SIX: A Social Spiral Winds Outward: Partners 171

CHAPTER SEVEN: Doing Things with Religion in Local Civic Life 216

CHAPTER EIGHT: Doing Things Together: Lessons from Religious Community Service Groups 247

APPENDIX I: Theory and Evidence in a Study of Religious Community

Service Groups 264

APPENDIX II: Studying Customs 274

Notes 281

References 303

Index 325

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Lichterman has been Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now Associate Professor of Sociology and Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment.