Passing the Plate
Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money
Christian Smith, Michael O Emerson & Patricia Snell
Passing the Plate
Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money
Christian Smith, Michael O Emerson & Patricia Snell
Hardback / gebonden
|
Engels
€ 43,50
- Vanaf €15,- geen verzendkosten.
- 30 dagen ruiltermijn voor fysieke producten
Omschrijving
Happily, Passing the Plate is social science of the traditional kind...Delightfully free of bloated post modern rhetoric and clunky sociologese...this book does admirably what the social scientific study of religion ought to do: it explains something.
Happily, Passing the Plate is social science of the traditional kind...Delightfully free of bloated post modern rhetoric and clunky sociologese...this book does admirably what the social scientific study of religion ought to do: it explains something.
Christian Smith is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. He is the coauthor, with Michael O. Emerson, of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Oxford, 2000), which was named the 2001 Distinguished Book of the Year by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, which won a Christianity Today Book Award in 2006. Michael O. Emerson is the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University. In addition to Divided by Faith, his books include United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race, coauthored with Curtiss Paul DeYoung, George Yancey, and Karen Chai Kim. Patricia Snell is Programs and Research Specialist for the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame.
Happily, Passing the Plate is social science of the traditional kind...Delightfully free of bloated post modern rhetoric and clunky sociologese...this book does admirably what the social scientific study of religion ought to do: it explains something.
Christian Smith is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. He is the coauthor, with Michael O. Emerson, of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Oxford, 2000), which was named the 2001 Distinguished Book of the Year by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, which won a Christianity Today Book Award in 2006. Michael O. Emerson is the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University. In addition to Divided by Faith, his books include United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race, coauthored with Curtiss Paul DeYoung, George Yancey, and Karen Chai Kim. Patricia Snell is Programs and Research Specialist for the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame.