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Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) - Hardcover

Greenhouse, Carol J.

 
9780801419713: Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0801419719 ISBN 13: 9780801419713
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Anthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law in a predominantly white, middle-class, suburban, principally Southern Baptist community.

"A most stimulating book....Praying for Justice is very successful in describing a people's aversion to discord by means of cultural analysis based on sensitive use of ethnographic and archival materials.... There is also the pure interest in figuring out a cultural system that is not of law, but that impacts on law, one that is based on justification rather than command, on participation rather than obedience, a system of handling conflict not requiring the application of human authority.... This book is superlative."―Law and Society Review

"A welcome study analyzing the ideology of Southern Baptists in a suburban community in Georgia. Greenhouse's concern is how religious beliefs provide a basis for people's ideas about justice in their social order and how conflicts or potential conflicts are overcome or avoided entirely by invoking religious doctrine.... Her sophisticated analysis of the data is impressive and demonstrates an understanding of Southern beliefs that few scholars have achieved."―American Anthropologist

"The strength of this work is in its imaginative explanation of the structural means of conflict resolution. Greenhouse goes to painstaking length to explain the Baptist response to conflict.... She absorbs herself in her data and maintains that delicate balance of scholar and confidant to her subjects."―Contemporary Sociology

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About the Author

Carol J. Greenhouse is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. She is the author of A Moment's Notice: Time Politics across Cultures and coauthor, with Barbara Yngvesson and David M. Engel, of Law and Community in Three American Towns, both available from Cornell.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
1986
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801419719
ISBN 13 
9780801419713
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224