The Truth about Conservative Christians: What They Think and What They Believe
The Truth about Conservative Christians: What They Think and What They Believe
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保守派基督徒的真相：他们的想法和信仰
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10.1177/009430610803700330
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发表时间：
2008
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M. Hughes
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调查没有与小组成员进行访谈，也没有对这些小组进行直接观察。她的下一章是关于跨宗教社区组织的，这一章是基于对25个通过互联网找到的跨宗教组织的便利调查，以及两个案例研究。她没有说明调查方法，也没有解释如何或为什么选择这两个案例研究。她关于不同信仰家庭的章节仅依赖于14次采访和二手资料;她关于在线不同信仰相遇的整个章节都是基于对两个网站材料的审查。简而言之，整本书都建立在证据的基础上，这些证据是为了方便和支持麦卡锡的论点而选择的，这使得这本书不仅仅是一本专著，而是一篇论文。因此，这本书对社会学家有一定的价值。它的参考书目列出了社会学家对美国宗教多样性研究的新价值。政治社会学家可能会发现麦卡锡所描述的宗教间政治联盟特别有趣。社会运动社会学家会对麦卡锡不加批判地宣称的“跨信仰运动”感到沮丧，但他们可能有兴趣看看这些团体是如何在宝贵的资源和适度的参与热情下继续工作的。对宗教、文化、家庭和种族感兴趣的社会学研究生可能会发现这本书最有价值;它的参考书目和四个网站为一篇优秀的论文提供了很好的起点。宗教间的互动对社会学有很大的潜在意义;一个强有力的实证研究可以为这门学科和公共社会学的工作做出重要贡献。
tion, conducts no interviews with group members, and includes no direct observations of these groups. Her next chapter, on interfaith community organizations, relies on a convenience survey of 25 interfaith organizations found via the internet, plus two case studies. She offers no description of the survey methods, and gives no explanation for how or why these two case studies were selected. Her chapter on interfaith families relies on just fourteen interviews and secondary sources; and her entire chapter on online interfaith encounters is based on review of materials from two websites. In short, the entire book rests upon evidence selected for its convenience and capacity to support McCarthy’s arguments, making the book an essay far more than a monograph. With that said, the book does possess some value for sociologists. Its bibliography lists sources that sociologists new to the study of U.S. religious diversity would value. Political sociologists might find the interfaith political alignments that McCarthy describes to be of particular interest. Social movement sociologists will be frustrated by McCarthy’s uncritical claims of an “interfaith movement,” but they might be interested to see how these groups have stayed afloat and continue their work with precious few resources and modest participant enthusiasm. Graduate sociology students with interests in religion, culture, family, and ethnicity might find this book of most value; its bibliography and four sites offer good starting points for a fine dissertation. Interfaith interactions possess much of potential interest to sociology; a robust empirical study could make important contributions to the discipline as well as to the work of public sociology.