Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self

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Acknowledgments Introduction by Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton 1. Mythic Gestures: Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Steven J. Sherwood 2. Social Differentiation and Moral Pluralism by Steven M. Tipton 3. Saving the Self: Endowment vs. Depletion in American Institutions by Ann Swidler 4. Mirror-Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity by S. N. Eisenstadt 5. Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered by Philip S. Gorski 6. Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene by Richard Madsen 7. Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique by Harvey Cox 8. Selling God in America: American Commercial Culture as a Climate of Hospitality to Religion by John A. Coleman, S.J. 9. In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community by Albert J. Raboteau 10. Reassembling the Civic Church: The Changing Role of Congregations in American Civil Society by Robert Wuthnow 11. Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive by Charles Taylor 12. Raising Good Citizens in a Bad Society: Moral Education and Political Avoidance in Civic America by Nina Eliasoph 13. On Being a Christian and an American by Stanley Hauerwas 14. Politics as the Public Use of Reason: Religious Roots of Political Possibilities by William M. Sullivan Epilogue. Meaning and Modernity: America and the World by Robert N. Bellah Notes Bibliography Index Contributors