At once historically and theoretically informed, these essays
invite the reader to think of religion dynamically, reconsidering
American religious history in terms of practices that are linked to
specific social contexts. The point of departure is the concept of
"lived religion." Discussing such topics as gift exchange,
cremation, hymn-singing, and women's spirituality, a group of
leading sociologists and historians of religion explore the many
facets of how people carry out their religious beliefs on a daily
basis. As David Hall notes in his introduction, a history of
practices "encompasses the tensions, the ongoing struggle of
definition, that are constituted within every religious tradition
and that are always present in how people choose to act. Practice
thus suggests that any synthesis is provisional."
The volume opens with two essays by Robert Orsi and Daniele
Hervieu-Leger that offer an overview of the rapidly growing study
of lived religion, with Hervieu-Leger using the Catholic
charismatic renewal movement in France as a window through which to
explore the coexistence of regulation and spontaneity within
religious practice. Anne S. Brown and David D. Hall examine family
strategies and church membership in early New England. Leigh Eric
Schmidt looks at the complex meanings of gift-giving in America.
Stephen Prothero writes about the cremation movement in the late
nineteenth century. In an essay on the narrative structure of Mrs.
Cowman's "Streams in the Desert," Cheryl Forbes considers the
devotional lives of everyday women. Michael McNally uses the
practice of hymn-singing among the Ojibwa to reexamine the
categories of native and Christian religion. In essays centering on
domestic life, Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates modern
homesteading as lived religion while R. Marie Griffith treats
home-oriented spirituality in the Women's Aglow Fellowship. In
"Golden- Rule Christianity," Nancy Ammerman talks about lived
religion in the American mainstream."
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