The Religious dimension :new directions in quantitative research /edited by Robert Wuthnow.

Name/Title

The Religious dimension :new directions in quantitative research /edited by Robert Wuthnow.

Description

Introduction / Robert Wuthnow -- Concepts and indicators of religious commitment: a critical review / Wade Clark Roof -- Departures from conventional religion: the nominally religious, the nonreligious, ad the alternatively religious / Charles Y. Glock & Robert Wuthnow -- Images of God and their social meanings / Thomas Piazza & Charles Y. Glock -- Quantitative approaches to sect classification and the study of sect development / Michael R. Welch -- Ethnic variations in religious commitment / Andrew M. Greeley -- Status inconsistency and religious commitment / M.S. Sasaki -- The religious factor and delinquency: another look at the hellfire hypotheses / Gary F. Jensen & Maynard L. Erickson -- Religious commitment, affiliation, and marriage dissolution / James McCarthy -- Religious affiliation and socioeconomic achievement / James A. Riccio -- The blending of Catholic reproductive behavior / Charles F. Westoff -- Social change and commitment to the work ethic / Larry Blackwood --^^The effects of residential migration on church attendance in the United States / Robert Wuthnow & Kevin Christiano -- A crisis in the moral order: the effects of Watergate upon confidence in social institutions / Albert Bergesen & Mark Warr -- Sovereign groups subsistence activities, and the presence of a high god in primitive societies / John H. Simpson -- Moral climates of nations: measurement and classification / Phillip E. Hammond & Kirk R. Williams -- Spirituals, jazz, blues, and soul music: the role of elaborated and restricted codes in the maintenance of social solidarity / Albert Bergesen -- Rational exchange and individualism: revival religion in the U.S., 1870-1890 / George M. Thomas. xiv, 376 p. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

circa 1979

Publication Subjects

Religion and sociology.

Call No.

BL 60 .R44

ISBN

012766050X

LCCN

79006948

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographies and index.