Postindustrial Promise : Vital Religious Community In The 21st Century, Paper...

by Anthony Healy

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Postindustrial Promise : Vital Religious Community In The 21st Century, Paperback by Healy, Anthony E., ISBN 1566992877, ISBN-13 9781566992879, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Tales of demise and decline have come to characterize news on the state of religion and congregations in America. In The Postindustrial Promise, author Anthony Healy finds that the changes in religious life and among congregations are being misunderstood. Instead of seeing the changes as the result of the presumed aspects of postmodern life—individualism, the collapse of social groups, and the scrapping of tradition—Healy sees what has occurred as a postindustrial transformation, in which an economy based on manufacturing has been replaced by one based on corporate and consumer services. This transformation has changed what we value and how we live, as well as how we work. It has also changed congregations and religious life, but not necessarily in the way that many people think. Contrary to the stories of decline, Healy finds that in this time of postindustrial dislocation people are again putting down religious roots. Congregations are making it possible for people to reconnect with the stories and traditions of previous generations and have become the places in society where the reembodying of religious and cultural narratives is taking place. Different from the postmodern script, this postindustrial explanation leads us to fresh insights into the change that has occurred among religious bodie

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
• Year: 2005
• ISBN: 9781566992879
• Condition: Fine

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