Given the profound role that religion continues to play in contemporary societies, it is
surprising that management researchers have not explored the intersection between …

" Acts of Faith is the single'big book'in the sociology of religion in the past decade, a
monumental effort that both demolishes old theories and creates brilliant new ones. Stark …

New immigrants_those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965_have forever
altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. Although the religious …

PREFACE or as long as most Americans can remember, our society has been Fdescribed to
us as being composed of individualists. As children, we were taught to be independent. We …

Congregations in Conflict examines the nature of American congregations as institutions,
looking in particular at how they deal with conflict within their ranks, to gain insight into …

My first thanks go to the people in the four communities in upstate New York—Tompkins
County, Seneca County, Liverpool, and Northside—who cooperated so generously in this …

" The past few decades have witnessed an increasing reaction of the Mormons against their
own successful assimilation", Armand Mauss writes in The Angel and the Beehive," as …

It has been well documented that American Catholics tend to be Catholics on their own
terms, or choose to remain Catholic while selectively embracing official Church doctrine. But …

In the Course of a Lifetime provides an unprecedented portrait of the dynamic role religion
plays in the everyday experiences of Americans over the course of their lives. The book …

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