Remembering our beliefs : practical religion in American culture revealed through an oral family performance 2002.

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Remembering our beliefs : practical religion in American culture revealed through an oral family performance 2002.

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Items come from Johnson's family's tradition called "Remembering," which continued for eleven years (1988-1999), where family members passed around a tape recorder and related a memory. Focuses on aspects of religion that come up in narratives about non-religious experiences. Narratives include mention of "practical religion"--Everyday religious practices--more frequently than mention of supernatural religious experiences. Concludes that daily religious habits are more significant as evidence of belief than supernatural religious experiences.

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Harold B. Lee Library

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