Religion and Cultural StudiesSusan L. Mizruchi Princeton University Press, 2021 M01 12 - 295 pages Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from them. Popular television shows like "The Simpsons" feature characters who go to church every Sunday and speak to God; special events, like the 1998 outdoor mass in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a comatose girl believed to have miraculous powers, attract thousands of people. |
Contents
Close Encounters of Diverse Kinds | 3 |
An Essay | 22 |
Religion Fragments | 38 |
The Place of Ritual in Our Time | 56 |
Human Solidarity and the Problem of Otherness | 80 |
Ascetics Aesthetics and the Management of Desire | 95 |
The Culture of Love in America | 110 |
Religious | 140 |
The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion | 192 |
Social Multiplicity and Christian | 211 |
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