Meaning and Modernity

Religion, Polity, and Self

By: Richard Madsen (Editor), William M. Sullivan (Editor), Ann Swidler (Editor), Steven M. Tipton (Editor), Robert N. Bellah (Epilogue by)

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Paperback | 4 December 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Deepening and developing the seminal vision of "Habits of the Heart" (California, 1985), this volume presents original essays by leading thinkers in the social sciences, philosophy and religion. It covers such issues as how Calvinism contributed to political revolution, why democracies require an enlarged sense of political community, how the religious foundations of Japan and the United states differ and what it means to be a Christian and an American.

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"[This book] not only serves as a testimony to the intellectual influence of Robert Bellah, it establishes a new school of comparative religious and social thought." - Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence; "[A] highly readable collection of original, thought-provoking essays.... Readers will learn much about such issues as how Calvinism contributed to political revolution, why democracies require an enlarged sense of political community, how the religious foundations of Japan and the United States differ, and what it means to be a Christian and an American." - Benton Johnson, author of Functionalism in Modern Sociology: Understanding Talcott Parsons

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
"Mythic Gestures": Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology	p. 1
Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism	p. 15
Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions	p. 41
Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity	p. 56
Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered	p. 78
Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene	p. 105
Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique	p. 124
Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion	p. 136
In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community	p. 150
Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society	p. 163
Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive	p. 181
Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America	p. 195
On Being a Christian and an American	p. 224
Politics as the "Public Use of Reason": Religious Roots of Political Possibilities	p. 236
Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World	p. 255
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 311
Contributors	p. 337
Index	p. 341
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