Pews, Prayers, and Participation

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Pews, Prayers, and Participation is written by Corwin E. Smidt and published by Georgetown University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1589012186 (ISBN 10) and 9781589012189 (ISBN 13).

"Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America" offers a fresh approach to key questions about what role religion plays in fostering civic responsibility in contemporary American society. In the course of their study the authors examine whether an individual exhibits a diminished, a privatized, a public, or an integrated form of religious expression, based on the individual's level of participation in both the public (worship) or private (prayer) dimensions of religious life. They question whether the privatization of religious life is counterproductive to engagement in public life, and they show that religion does indeed play a significant role in fostering civic responsibility across each of its particular facets.--From publisher description.