Sense of the Faithful: How American Catholics Live their Faith
This is an important and insightful book about lived religion, religious agency, the tailoring of religious preferences, and the challenges of contemporary Catholicism., Numerous social science studies have probed Catholic belief and behavior since Vatican II. Few scholars have pursued a more richly...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 3, Pages: 329-331 |
| Review of: | Sense of the faithful (New York [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2009) (Dinges, William D.)
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| Summary: | This is an important and insightful book about lived religion, religious agency, the tailoring of religious preferences, and the challenges of contemporary Catholicism., Numerous social science studies have probed Catholic belief and behavior since Vatican II. Few scholars have pursued a more richly ethnographic approach than is offered here. Baggett's study is composed of in-depth interviews conducted over five years with over 300 of the most active Catholics within six parishes in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp041 |