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Book SynopsisExplores various facets of how Americans carry out their religious beliefs. This volume features essays that: offer an overview of the study of lived religion; explore the co-existence of regulation and spontaneity within religious practice; examine family strategies and church membership in New England; and, look at the meanings of gift-giving.
Trade Review"David D. Hall addresses the gap between academic theology and the diverse ways people of faith 'live religion' in their circumstances."--The Christian Century
Table of ContentsIntroductionCh. 1Everyday Miracles: The Study of Lived Religion3Ch. 2"What Scripture Tells Me": Spontaneity and Regulation within the Catholic Charismatic Renewal22Ch. 3Family Strategies and Religious Practice: Baptism and the Lord's Supper in Early New England41Ch. 4Practices of Exchange: From Market Culture to Gift Economy in the Interpretation of American Religion69Ch. 5Lived Religion and the Dead: The Cremation Movement in Gilded Age America92Ch. 6Coffee, Mrs. Cowman, and the Devotional Life of Women Reading in the Desert116Ch. 7The Uses of Ojibwa Hymn-Singing at White Earth: Toward a History of Practice133Ch. 8Submissive Wives, Wounded Daughters, and Female Soldiers: Prayer and Christian Womanhood in Women's Aglow Fellowship160Ch. 9Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream196Ch. 10Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature: Modern Homesteading as Lived Religion in America217Contributors243Index245
