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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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. "A beautifully written ethnography that provides new insight into the functioning of congregations and the meaning of spirituality at the end of the twentieth century." -Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250. . 1995. Paperback. . . . . Codice articolo V9780812215144
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. "A beautifully written ethnography that provides new insight into the functioning of congregations and the meaning of spirituality at the end of the twentieth century." -Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250. . 1995. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9780812215144
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. A beautifully written ethnography that provides new insight into the functioning of congregations and the meaning of spirituality at the end of the twentieth century. -Robert Wuthnow, Princeton UniversityÜber den AutorrnrnJody Shapiro. Codice articolo 867671386