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Women in the Presence - Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism (Paperback, New)
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Women in the Presence - Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism (Paperback, New)
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Women in the Presence is a study of the religious lives of
middle-class laywomen. Focusing on the ways in which the members of
one Bible study group for women at a suburban Presbyterian church
articulate their beliefs and define their communicative boundaries,
the book reveals a style of managing privacy, diversity, and
fellowship that displays distinct strengths and poignant
prohibitions. Based on eighteen months of participant-observation
fieldwork, complemented by extensive individual interviews, Jody
Shapiro Davie shows that often the deepest beliefs of group members
are voiced only indirectly and that crucial elements of their
personal beliefs are not discussed at all among the group. Women in
the Presence makes apparent some of the difficulties and
complexities of contemporary middle-class religious life in
America: the fear of self-revelation that leads to spiritual
isolation; denominational efforts not to alienate anyone that
result in polite, superficial, and lifeless churches; and the
conventions of middle-class culture that repress the individual's
desire for sincere and active engagement with the life of the soul.
Approaching a middle-class American church through an
anthropologist-folklorist's eyes, Women in the Presence offers a
fresh perspective on the pursuit of spirituality by mainstream
Protestant women. Unique in its field, this book will be of
interest to the general reader and to scholars concerned with
congregational studies, women and religion, vernacular religion and
belief, and the anthropology of contemporary American religious
life.
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