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This book is a microsociological study of religious practice, based
on fieldwork with Conservative Jews, Bible Belt Muslims, white
Baptists, black Baptists, Buddhist meditators, and Latino
Catholics. In each case, the author scrutinizes how a
congregation's ritual strategies help or hinder their efforts to
achieve a transformative spiritual encounter, an intense feeling
that becomes the basis of their most fundamental understandings of
reality. The book shows how these transformative spiritual
encounters routinely depend on issues that can seem rather mundane
by comparison, such as where the sanctuary's entrance is located,
how many misprints end up in the church bulletin, or how long the
preacher continues to preach beyond lunchtime. The spirit responds
to other dynamics, as well, such as how congregations collectively
imagine outsiders, or how they talk about ideas like individualism
and patriarchy. Building on provocative theories from sociologists
such as Emile Durkheim, Erving Goffman, Randall Collins, and Anne
Warfield Rawls, this book shows how "interaction ritual theory"
opens compelling new pathways for sociological scholarship on
religion. Micro-level specifics from fieldwork in Texas are
supplemented with large-scale survey analysis of a wide array of
religious organizations from across the United States.
The 7th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE 2014)
was organised by the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining
Engineering and the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the
University of Western Australia under the guidance of the Technical
Committee 213 for Scour and Erosion of the International Society of
Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). This biennial
conference draws together leading academics, scientists and
engineers engaged in scour and erosion research to present and
exchange their latest scientific findings. These proceedings,
together with the six previous proceedings dating from 2002,
present a rare collection of technical and scientific developments
in scour and erosion research which have been established over the
last 12 years. This book includes state-of-the-art papers in scour
and erosion from ICSE 2014, covering the 6 themes of: internal
erosion, sediment transport, advanced numerical modelling of scour
and erosion, terrestrial scour and erosion, river/bridge scour and
erosion, and marine scour and erosion. The proceedings include 5
keynote lectures from world leading researches cutting across the
themes of scour and erosion, together with 87 peer-reviewed papers
from 19 countries. This book is ideal for researchers and industry
working at the forefront of scour and erosion, both with
application to rivers and marine operations.
This book is a microsociological study of religious practice, based
on fieldwork with Conservative Jews, Bible Belt Muslims, white
Baptists, black Baptists, Buddhist meditators, and Latino
Catholics. In each case, the author scrutinizes how a
congregation's ritual strategies help or hinder their efforts to
achieve a transformative spiritual encounter, an intense feeling
that becomes the basis of their most fundamental understandings of
reality. The book shows how these transformative spiritual
encounters routinely depend on issues that can seem rather mundane
by comparison, such as where the sanctuary's entrance is located,
how many misprints end up in the church bulletin, or how long the
preacher continues to preach beyond lunchtime. The spirit responds
to other dynamics, as well, such as how congregations collectively
imagine outsiders, or how they talk about ideas like individualism
and patriarchy. Building on provocative theories from sociologists
such as Emile Durkheim, Erving Goffman, Randall Collins, and Anne
Warfield Rawls, this book shows how "interaction ritual theory"
opens compelling new pathways for sociological scholarship on
religion. Micro-level specifics from fieldwork in Texas are
supplemented with large-scale survey analysis of a wide array of
religious organizations from across the United States.
This book challenges the reader to understand the importance of
"the freedom of religion" concept granted by our forefathers, and
further enumerates the agenda of the Christian-Right, and compares
their behavior with the original life, work, and teachings of
Christ The conclusions force us to see the Christian-Right as
neither being Christ-like nor right (correct, ) a true oxymoron, in
and of itself.
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