TY - JOUR
AU - Healy, Anthony E.
AB - 548 SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION reduces or deemphasizes the distinction strong argument for the utilization of between membership and nonmembership sociological methods (and more than just will not survive” (117). She ends by making ethnography) in pursuing theological recommendations on how to strengthen understandings within congregational and community. pastoral settings. Nevertheless, aside from I found this book engaging and very important but parochial theological readable. It was pitched well for its target issues, the book is instructive to sociolo- audience. Tables of data supporting her gists, if not also potentially troubling, claims could be found in the back and were because it questions how we perceive easy to read. I think those interested in the social world theoretically versus Catholic communities and/or the decline theologically. of meaningful community will find this Of special interest sociologically is book helpful. the chapter of Mark T. Mulder and James K.A. Smith on the different lay theologi- Sam Reimer cal perspectives that suburban and urban Crandall University Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and mainline Protestants hold of urban life. Based on 270 semi-structured interviews REFERENCE conducted mostly in a Midwest city, the authors conclude that religiously affiliated urban dwellers, given their location, are Putnam, Robert. 2000. 
TI - Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography
JO - Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review
DO - 10.1093/socrel/srt038
DA - 2013-12-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/explorations-in-ecclesiology-and-ethnography-cEdGG4O5XE
SP - 548
EP - 549
VL - 74
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -