The History of American Christian Practice Project Bibliography
© Kathryn Lofton, 2002
action theory
Deskins, D.R. et al., eds. Geographic Humanism: Analysis and Social Action. Univ. of Michigan Press, 1977.
Parsons, Talcott, and Edward Shils, eds. Toward a General Theory of Action. NY: Harper and Row, 1962.
comparative theories of practice
Bahn, Paul and Colin Renfrew. Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. Thames and Hudson, 2000.
Bertrand, Yves. Contemporary Theories and Practice in Education. Atwood Publishing, 1995.
Buchwald, Jed Z., ed. Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics. Univ. of Chicago, 1995.
Coombe, Rosemary J., "Room for Manoeuver: Toward a Theory of Practice in Critical Legal Studies," Law and Social Inquiry
14 (Winter 1989): 69-121.
Herman, Stewart, ed. Spiritual Goods: Religious Traditions and Business Practice. Soc. for Business Ethics: Philosophy
Documentation Center, 2002.
Hardcastle, David A., et al. Community Practice: Theories and Skills for Social Workers. Oxford Univ., 1997.
Parker, Marilyn E., ed. Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice. F.A. Davis Company, 2001.
Schon, Donald. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
contemporary spiritual practice, applied
[see also ‘spirituality in America, applied’]
Bridges, Jerry. The Practice of Godliness. Navpress, 1996.
Cash, Marie Romero. Living Shrine: Home Altars of New Mexico. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1998.
Doriani, Daniel M. Putting the Truth to Work: The Theory and Practice of Biblical Application. Presbyterian and Reformed
Publishing Company, 2001.
Farley, Edward. Requiem for a Lost Piety: The Contemporary Search for the Christian Life. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster
Press, 1966.
Fonseca, Michael. Living in God’s Embrace: The Practice of Spiritual Intimacy. Ave Maria Press, 2000.
Foster, R. J. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1978.
Funk, Mary Margaret. Thoughts Matter: The Practice of Spiritual Life. (introduction by Kathleen Norris) Continuum
Publishing Group, 1999.
Funk, Mary Margaret. Tools Matter for Practicing the Spiritual Life. Continuum, 2001.
Higgs, Liz Curtis. Only Angels Can Wing It/the Rest of Us Have to Practice. Thomas Nelson, 1995.
Jacobsen, Steve. Heart to God, Hands to Work: Connecting Spirituality and Work. Bethesda, MD: The Alban Institute, 1997.
Jeremiah, David. Invasion of Other Gods: The Seduction of New Age Spirituality. Dallas, TX: Word, 1995.
Nelson, Gertrud Mueller. To Dance With God: Family Ritual and Community Celebration. Paulist Press, 1987.
Noland, Rory. The Heart of the Artist. Zondervan Publishing House, 1999.
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Peppers, Cheryl and Alan Briskin. Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice. Berrett-Koehler, 2000.
Postema, Don. Space for God: The Study and Practice of Prayer and Spirituality. CRC Publications, 1997.
Segler, Franklin M. and C. Randall Bradley. Understanding, Preparing For, and Practicing Christian Worship. Broadman
and Holman Publishers, 1996.
Wiersbe, Warren W. Real Worship: Playground, Battleground, or Holy Ground. Baker Book House, 2000.
Wilson, Jonathan R. Gospel Virtues: Practicing Faith, Hope and Love in Uncertain Times. Intervarsity, 1998.
history of practical theology in America
Ballard, Paul, ed. Foundations of Pastoral Studies and Practical Theology. Cardiff: Faculty of Theology, 1986.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Cost of Discipleship. New York: Macmillan Company, 1948.
Boys, Mary. Education in Faith: Maps and Visions. San Francisco, Calif.: Harper and Row, 1989.
Browning, Don S. A Fundamental Practical Theology: Descriptive and Strategic Proposals. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress
Press, 1991.
Campbell, Alistair. “Is Practical Theology Possible?” Scottish Journal of Theology 25, pp. 217-27.
Clebsch, William A. and Charles R. Jaekle. Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective. Jason Aronson, 1983.
Dawn, Marva J. Reaching Out Without Crumbling Down: A Theology of Worship for Turn-of-the-Century Culture.
Eerdmans, 1995.
Elkins, Heather Murray and Edward C. Zaragoza. Pulpit, Table and Song. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Pr., 1996.
Holifield, E. Brooks. A History of Pastoral Care in America. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1983.
Miller, Donald and J. Poling. Foundations for a Practical Theology of Ministry. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985.
Mouw, Richard J. Consulting the Faithful. Eerdmans, 1994.
van der Ven, Johannes. “Practical Theology: From Applied to Empirical Theology.” Journal of Empirical Theology 1, pp. 728.
Volf, Miroslav and Dorothy Bass. Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life. Eerdmans, 2001.
Wilson, Frank E. Faith and Practice. Morehouse Publishing, 1992.
Wuthnow, Robert. Acts of compassion: caring for others and helping ourselves. Princeton Univ. Press, 1991.
history of practice, general
Hobsbawn, Eric, and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.
Lang, Berhard. Sacred Games: A History of Christian Worship. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997.
Lobkowicz, Nicholas. Theory and Practice: History of a Concept from Aristotle to Marx. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of
Notre Dame Press, 1967.
Murphey, Nancey et al, eds. Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition. Trinity Press, 1997.
Sahlins, Marshall. Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1981.
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history of practice, American
Burdick, John. Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. Routledge, 1998.
Cushman, Philip. Constructing the Self, Constructing America. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Ducey, Michael. Sunday Morning: Aspects of Urban Ritual. Free Press, 1977.
Elizondo, Virgilio. Guadalupe: Mother of the New Creation. Orbis Books, 1997.
Griffith, R. Marie. "Apostles of Abstinence: Fasting and Masculinity during the Progressive Era." American Quarterly. 52
(December 2000): 599-638.
Griffith, R. Marie. God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,
1997.
Hall, David, ed. Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice. Princeton Univ. Press, 1997.
Hall, David. World of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1990.
Hambrick-Stowe, Charles E. The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England.
Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Holifield, Brooks. A History of Pastoral Care in America. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1983.
Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,
1998.
McDannell, Colleen. Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995.
McDannell, Colleen, ed. Religions of the United States in Practice, volumes 1 and 2. Princeton Univ. Press, 2001.
McNally, Michael. "The Practice of Native American Christianity." Church History 69 (December 2000): 834-859.
Neville, Gwen. Kinship and Pilgrimage: Rituals of Reunion in American Protestantism. Oxford UP, 1999.
Orsi, Robert. Thank you, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Saint of Hopeless Causes. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1996.
Ostrander, Richard. Ostrander, Richard. The Life of Prayer in a World of Science: Protestants, Prayer, and American
Culture, 1879-1930. NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Peacock, James L. “Weberian, Southern Baptist, and Indonesian Muslim Conceptions of Belief and Action.” In Carole E. Hill,
ed., Symbols and Society: Essays on Belief Systems in Action. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975, pp. 82-92.
Pitts, Walter. “Keep the Fire Burnin’: Language and Ritual in the Afro-Baptist Church.” Journal of the American Academy of
Religion 56, no.1 (1988): 77-97.
Solberg, Winton U. Redeem the Time: The Puritan Sabbath in Early America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1977.
Taves, Ann. The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth Century America. Notre Dame: Univ. of
Notre Dame Press, 1986.
Vecsey, Christopher. On the Padres’ Trail. Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1996.
Vogt, Evan. The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life. Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1997.
Warner, W. Lloyd. The Family of God: A Symbolic Study of Christian Life in America. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1961
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Warner, W. Lloyd. The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1959.
moral history
Bloch, Maurice. Money and the morality of exchange. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989.
Colacurcio, Michael J. The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press,
1984.
Fox, Richard W. In face of facts: moral inquiry in American scholarship. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Press, 1998.
Glover, Jonathan. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2000.
Stout, Jeffrey. Ethics After Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents. Beacon Press, 1988.
Wuthnow, Robert. Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis. Univ. of CA Press, 1987.
philosophy of practice
Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinctions: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1984.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Bourdieu, Pierre, and Jean-Claude Passeron. Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture. Translated by Richard Nice.
Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1977.
[DiMaggio, Paul. “Review Essay: On Pierre Bourdieu.” American Journal of Sociology 84, no. 6 (1979): 1460-74.]
De Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendell. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1984.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method, 2nd rev. ed. Translated by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall. New York:
Crosswood, 1989. Originally published in 1960.
Habermas, Jurgen. Theory and Practice. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1973.
Hadot, Pierre. Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault. Ed. by Arnold Davidson.
Translated by Michael Chase. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
Kierkegaard, Soren. Practice in Christianity. Translated by Howard Hong. Princeton Univ. Press, 1991.
Lamb, Matthew. “The Theory-Praxis Relationship in Contemporary Christian Theologies.” Catholic Theological Society
Proceedings 31, pp. 149-78.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1984.
May, Todd. Our Practices, Our Selves; Or, What It Means To Be Human. Penn State Press, 2002.
McCann, Dennis and C. Strain. Polity and Praxis. New York: Winston Press, 1985.
Ortner, Sherry B. "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26 (January 1984):
126-166.
Storey, John. Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Arnold Press, 1999.
ritual theory
Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Bergesen, Albert. The Sacred and the Subversive: Political Witch Hunts as National Rituals. Storrs, Conn.: Society for the
Social Scientific Study of Religion, 1984.
Comaroff, John and Jean. Of Revelation and Revolution. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997.
Delattre, Roland A. “Ritual Resourcefulness and Cultural Pluralism.” Soundings 61, no. 3 (1978): 281-301.
Driver, Tom F. Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual. Westview Press, 1998.
Fenn, Richard K. Liturgies and Trials: The Secularization of Religious Language. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1982.
Fernandez, James W. “The Performance of Ritual Metaphors.” In J. David Sapir and J. Christopher Crocker, eds. The Social
Use of Metaphor: Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977, pp. 100-131.
Goody, Jack. “Religion and Ritual: The Definitional Problem.” British Journal of Sociology 12 (1961): 142-64.
Grimes, Ronald L. Case Studies in Its Practice, Essays on Its Theory. Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1990.
Grimes, Ronald L., ed. Readings in Ritual Studies. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
Selections with specifically American subject contexts are in bold:
Babcock, Barbara A. “Arrange Me Into Disorder.”
Bell, Catherine. “Constructing Ritual.”
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. “Ritual in the Hospital: Giving Birth the American Way.”
Driver, Tom F. “Transformation: The Magic of Ritual.”
Gill, Sam D. “Disenchantment: A Religious Abduction.”
Goethals, Gregor T. “Ritual: Ceremony and Super-Sunday.”
Goffman, Erving. “Interaction Ritual: Deference and Demeanor.”
Kertzer, David I. “Ritual, Politics, and Power.”
Laird, Joan. “Women and Ritual in Family Therapy.”
Pena, Manuel H. “Ritual Structure in a Chicano Dance.”
Wallendorf, Melanie and Eric Arnould. “Consumption Rituals of Thanksgiving Day.”
Moore, Sally F. and Barbara G. Myerhoff, eds. Secular Ritual. Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1977.
Smith, Jonathan Z. “The Bare Facts of Ritual” from Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1982.
Smith, Jonathan Z. To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Staal, Frits. “The Meaninglessness of Ritual.” Numen 26, no. 1 (1975): 2-22.
Turner, Victor. Dramas, Field, Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. Cornell Univ. Press, 1974.
spirituality in America, theoretical
Albanese, Catherine, ed. American Spiritualities: A Reader. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2001.
Alexander, Jon, ed. American Personal Religious Accounts, 1600-1980: Toward and Inner History of America's Faiths.
Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
Bellah, Robert N. et al. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley, Calif.: University of
California Press, 1985.
Berger, Peter L. A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
Brown, Michael F. The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age. Harvard Univ. Press, 1997.
Eckardt, A. Roy. The Surge of Piety in America. Association Press, 1958.
Ellwood, Robert S. The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict. New Brunswick: Rutgers
Univ. Press, 1997.
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Ellwood, Robert S. The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern. New
Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1994.
Gallup, George and Timothy Jones. The Next American Spirituality: Finding God in the Twenty-First Century. Colorado
Springs, Colo.: Cook Communications, 2000.
Griffith, David Ray. God and Religion in the Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.
Hambrick-Stowe, Charles. "For God and the People: The Spirituality of Rauschenbusch-- and DuBois--A Century Later."
Spiritus 1 (2001): 217-231.
Hoge, Dean R. et al. Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers. Louisville, Kent.:
Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994.
Hudnut-Beumler, James. Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945-1965.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Marler, Penny and C. Kirk Hadaway. “’Being Religious’ or ‘Being Spiritual’ in America: A Zero-Sum Proposition?” Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion. 41 (June 2002): 289-300.
Marty, Martin E. A Nation of Behavers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Moore, R. Laurence. Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture. Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
Pohl, Christine D. Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Eerdmans, 1999.
Roof, Wade Clark. A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation. San Francisco: Harper,
1993.
Roof, Wade Clark. Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1999.
Roof, Wade Clark, et al. "Forum: American Spirituality." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 9
(Summer 1999): 131-57.
Taves, Ann. Fits, Trances and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. Princeton
Univ. Press, 1999.
Tickle, Phyllis. Rediscovering the Sacred: Spirituality in America. New York: Crossroads, 1995.
Torrance, Robert. The Spiritual Quest: Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,
1994.
Wuthnow, Robert. After Heaven: Spirituality in America since the 1950s. Berkeley: University of Califonia Press, 1998.
Wuthnow, Robert. Sharing the Journey: Support Groups and America’s New Quest for Community. New York: Free Press,
1994.
Wuthnow, Robert. Spirituality in America since the 1950s. Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1998.
Zinnbauer, Brian J., et al. "Religion and Spirituality: Unfuzzing the Fuzzy." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36
(December 1997): 549-64.
spirituality in America, applied
Alexander, Jon. "What Do Recent Writers Mean By Spirituality?" Spirituality Today 32 (September 1980): 247-54.
Bass, Dorothy C., ed. Practicing Our Faith. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997.
Bass, Dorothy C. and Miroslav Volf, eds. Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life. Eerdmans, 2001.
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Beaudoin, Tom. Virtual Faith: the Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossepy-Bass, 1998.
Carter, Stephen. The Culture of Disbelief. New York: Basic Books/HarperCollins, 1993.
Cousins, Ewert. "Spirituality in Today's World." In Religion in Today's World: The Religious Situation in the World from
1945 to the Present Day. Edited by Frank Whaling. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1987.
Dykstra, Craig. Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices. Louisville: Geneva Press, 1999.
Grimes, Ronald L. Deeply into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage. Paulist Press, 1987.
Kosman, Barry A. and Seymour P. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society. New
York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1993.
Lesser, Elizabeth. The American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide. New York: Random House, 1999.
Miles, Margaret R. Practicing Christianity: Critical Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality. New York: Crossroad, 1990.
Sine, Tom. Mustard Seed versus McWorld. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1999.
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