1: Everyday Religion as Lived
2: Contested Meanings and Definitional Boundaries: Historicizing
the Sociology of Religion
3: Popular Religious Expressions Today: U.S. Latinos and
Latinas
4: Popular Religions in Practice Today: Southern White
Evangelicals
5: Spirituality and Materiality: Why Bodies Matter
6: Embodied Practices for Healing and Wholeness
7: Gendered Spiritualities
8: Rethinking Religious Identity, Commitment, and Hybridity
Meredith McGuire is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She has written and edited numerous books, most recently Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reframing the Ethnography of Religion, co-edited with Jim Spickard and Shawn Landres.
"An invaluable resource that broadens understandings of the
complicated interactions of personal spirituality and social
contexts. ...This important book provides an extraoridnary overview
that challenges quantitative researchers to develop new approaches
and stimulates qualitative researchers to addres new questions in
new ways."
--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"Meredith McGuire's Lived Religion richly endows an expanding
academic literature highlighting the relevance of
religious-spiritual practices that are typically excluded from the
received view of what counts as religion and spirituality.
...McGuire's thoughtful, intellectually engaging, and well-written
book is a welcome addition to the analysis of the prevalence of
religion and spirituality in everyday practices. ...McGuire
succeeds in making visible
the many hybrid sources of religious community and commitment that
might otherwise remain beyond the gaze of scholarly attention."
--American Journal of Sociology
"McGuire's thoughtful, intellectually engaging, and well-written
book is a welcome addition to the analysis of the prevalence of
religion and spirituality in everyday practices."Michele Dillon,
University of New Hampshire
"This is an important book in the sociology of religion, because it
prods us to take seriously religious practices...rich
analysis...."--Wyndy Corbin Reushling
"...A creative blending of a personal and professional narrative
and normative zeal to reform the field of sociology and religion...
The book succeeds in its goal to infuse tired debates in the
sociology of religion with a fresh perspective. It will stimulate
many conversations about which lamppost we should look under to
find religion in contemporary society, how it got there, and where
it is going." --Contemporary Sociology
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