{"id":336,"date":"2011-09-21T22:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/?p=336"},"modified":"2018-10-21T23:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:16:01","slug":"review-of-engaged-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/2011\/09\/21\/review-of-engaged-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Engaged Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review of G<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2011\/09\/engagedspirituality.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-595\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2011\/09\/engagedspirituality.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2011\/09\/engagedspirituality.jpg 218w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2011\/09\/engagedspirituality-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a>regory Stanczak&#8217;s <em>Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>2008. <em>International Review of Modern Sociology<\/em> 34(1):144-6<\/p>\n<p>From the review: &#8220;When a book subtitled <em>How Religion Poisons Everything <\/em>nears the top of the best-seller lists, as Christopher Hitchens\u2019 <em>God is Not Great<\/em> has, it is but one more indication that the state of public discourse on religion has devolved to the level of American professional wrestling \u2013 visceral, entertaining, and as subtle as a chair crashing down on someone\u2019s head. Thus, when Gregory Stanczak slips into the arena to suggest politely that religion could sometimes, possibly, maybe be a force for good in the world, he starts by repeatedly apologizing for daring to raise the suggestion, as if bracing to receive a hail of blows from a crowd that wants only to watch Chris &#8216;The God-Slayer&#8217; Hitchens body slam Mother Teresa.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Gregory Stanczak&#8217;s Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion (Rutgers University Press, 2006) 2008. International Review of Modern Sociology 34(1):144-6 From the review: &#8220;When a book subtitled How Religion Poisons Everything nears the top of the best-seller lists, as Christopher Hitchens\u2019 God is Not Great has, it is but one more indication that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27],"tags":[32,31],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-reviews","tag-religion","tag-reviews-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}