Producing the Sacred: AN ESSAY ON PUBLIC RELIGION (Public Express Religion America)

Wuthnow, Robert

ISBN 10: 0252064011 / ISBN 13: 9780252064012

Published by University of Illinois Press (edition ), 1994

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Synopsis:

What is Public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? These are the fundamental questions Robert Wuthnow addresses in Producing the Sacred.
Wuthnow uses as a guiding assumption the idea that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major kinds of organizations that produce public religion--congregations, hierarchies, special interests, academies, and public rituals--showing how these organizational vehicles shape public religion's messages and how specific types of religious organization draw resources from their environments. He also reveals the implicit and unintended ways in which sacredness is expressed in modern society.
 
A volume in the series Public Expressions of Religion in America  
 

About the Author: Robert Wuthnow is Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. He is the author of many works, including "The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe" (1997), "Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money" (1996), and "Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis" (California, 1987).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Producing the Sacred: AN ESSAY ON PUBLIC ...
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (edition )
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good