Stay away from those places.
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There are others some call them churches that are engaging, encouraging, and supportive. These are places where you will find people who want to walk with you in your spirituality, and I believe you will be a better person. It is not only in churches where the divine can be found. In fact it is more often not in churches where the divine can be found but in the ordinary workings of life.
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There is a sense that there is something more. What that something more might be can vary from person to person. It can be the aesthetic quality of a good experience or the belief and awareness of the presence of a holy other.
Hence the golf course, Twinkie eating experience. What Ammerman also points out is the role religious institutions can play in articulating and giving language and focus to such experiences. Ammerman is good in pointing out how the impact of a religious community is felt beyond the walls of the institution and seeps into the ordinary of the everyday life. You can still eat that Twinkie but now you may have a prayer extolling the great Creator who gave humanity the knowledge to create such yummy goodness.
Beyond the grammar, religious communities seem to push people to go beyond themselves and to be more. Ammerman points out that those connected with religious communities tended to volunteer for charitable actions more than those who did not Religious communities have a level of expectation on its participants that can although sadly does not always lead to good works.
It is good for you to be a part of a community.
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So stop being spiritually lazy. Put down the Twinkie and find a place to connect. Through those communities your experience of the Holy Other can be enhanced. Your Twinkie eating experiences will never be the same. Dec 31, Roger Green rated it liked it. Good information but rather a banal picture of well-to-do Americans.
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In order to uncover religious narratives, Ammerman and her research team relied on several modes of empirical evidence gathering. The multi-pronged research gathering is impressive as it established multiple points of communication with the men and women with whom Ammerman and her team worked for the ultimate publication of the book.
The PEI and oral diary data collection are especially helpful as they allow for insights that one-on-one interviews cannot grasp. While there is no getting around the power relations involved in any kind of social science research method, the representations from PEI and recorded diaries come directly from the men and women themselves and are more free-flowing and spontaneous than providing answers in an interview setting.
What we learn about religion and spirituality in the contemporary United States in this book is that it is complex.
We learn that women and men are creative and do not necessarily correlate institutional religious understandings with their own, although sometimes they do. Storytelling is an important way for religious and spiritual Americans to relate their most fervent beliefs and values.
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