10 Ergebnisse.

Keine Beschreibung.

Atheist Awakening is a groundbreaking study of the growth and revitalization of the atheist movement in the U.S. Through in-depth interviews and observation of atheist gatherings, the authors find that much of this "awakening" has come about as atheists have engaged in new forms of activism and community-building.

A wonderful gift for any military history enthusiast.

Richard Cimino is adjunct professor in Sociology at Hofstra University. He is author of Trusting the Spirit and (with Don Lattin) Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium, and editor of Religion Watch. Nadia A. Mian is adjunct professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York UniversityWeishan Huang is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in G¿ttingen, Germany.

Describes how religious institutions shape and are shaped by their environments

Against the Stream examines the phenomenon of young adult conversion and return to traditional Christian religiosity. The book is based on 50 case studies of young adults who have converted or returned to three tradition-based faiths: conservative and traditionalist Roman Catholicism, the conservative Reformed (or Calvinist) tradition, and Eastern Orthodoxy. The book provides an account of these young adults' beliefs as well as how they relate...

Keine Beschreibung.

Mystical Science and Practical Religion examines the religious discourse employed by Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh applied science professionals and students, mainly engineers and Information Technology (IT) workers. Although applied scientists, especially immigrants to the United States, have shown high rates of religiosity, there have been few studies of this subject. Based on interviews with forty-five professionals and students, Cimino finds tha...

In S"hopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium, " Richard Cimino and Don Lattin identify the trends shaping American religion. They bring together the latest research with intimate portraits of Americans: their beliefs, their religious heritages, and their spiritual searching. From this emerges a fascinating landscape of religious life encompassing individual spirituality, the institutions of religious life, and the interactio...

In the middle of the twentieth century, American Lutherans were newsworthy enough to find themselves on the cover of Time magazine. Their claim to fame? In an era when American churches were beginning to look and act alike, Lutherans' strong confessional nature and stress on theology as well as their liturgy and ethnicity set them apart. They were "Protestants with a difference" at a time when differences were supposed to be dissolving in the ...