| Producing the Sacred: An Essay on Public Religion Contributor(s): Wuthnow, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252064011 ISBN-13: 9780252064012 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: What is public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? Wuthnow states that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major organizational forms that produce public religion, shows how they shape public religion's messages, and reveals the implicit and unintended ways in which the sacred is expressed in modern society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion |
| Dewey: 306.609 |
| LCCN: 93-8934 |
| Series: Public Expressions of Religion in America |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 8.93" (0.66 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is Public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? These are the fundamental questions Robert Wuthnow addresses in Producing the Sacred. Wuthnow uses as a guiding assumption the idea that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major kinds of organizations that produce public religion--congregations, hierarchies, special interests, academies, and public rituals--showing how these organizational vehicles shape public religion's messages and how specific types of religious organization draw resources from their environments. He also reveals the implicit and unintended ways in which sacredness is expressed in modern society. A volume in the series Public Expressions of Religion in America |