Heart of Religion: Spiritual Empowerment, Benevolence, and the Experience of God's Love

by Matthew T. Lee, Margaret M. Poloma, Stephen G. Post

Book Overview

Beneath our culture's obsession with wealth and power, status and celebrity, millions of Americans are quietly engaged in a deeply religious struggle to free themselves from petty selfishness and to embrace a life of benevolence and compassion.

Drawing on an extensive random survey of 1,200 men and women across the United States, Matthew Lee, Margaret Poloma, and Stephen Post here shed new light on how Americans wake up to the reality of divine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199931887
• ISBN13: 9780199931880
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"