 | Robert Neelly Bellah - Philosophy - 1985 - 384 pages
...young nurse who has received a good deal of therapy and who describes her faith as “Sheilaism.” “I believe in God. I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little voice.” Sheila's faith has... | |
 | Wade Clark Roof, William McKinney - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 304 pages
...experience and views on religion. Speaking about her own faith and how it operates in her life, she says: “I believe in God. I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little voice.” 3 Hers is a deeply... | |
 | William A. Donohue - Social Science - 1995 - 264 pages
...Larson, one of the persons interviewed by Robert Bellah and associates, epitomizes the new voluntarism: "I believe in God. I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little tion classified themselves as... | |
 | Milton J. Coalter, John M. Mulder, Louis Weeks - Religion - 1992 - 356 pages
...radically individualistic understanding of religion in Sheila Larson. During her interview she declared: "I believe in God. I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little voice." She described her ethic... | |
 | James DiGiacomo - Philosophy - 1993 - 164 pages
...find a kindred spirit in Sheila, a young woman who has named her religion after herself. She says: "I believe in God. I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little voice." 5 Like her, [t]he students... | |
 | Jackson W. Carroll, Wade Clark Roof - Religion - 1993 - 372 pages
...in Habits of the Heart (Bellah et al. 1985, 221), who defined her private religion as "Sheilaism": "I believe in God. I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little voice." In addition to the "nones,"... | |
 | José Casanova - Political Science - 1994 - 340 pages
...one of the people they interviewed actually named her own "faith" after herself, "my own Sheilaism": "I believe in God. I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little voice." The interviewers add,... | |
 | E. Digby (Edward Digby) Baltzell - Social Science - 1994 - 330 pages
...who describes her religious faith as “Sheilaism.” “I believe in God,” she tells the recorder. “I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little voice.” To have met Sheila... | |
 | Deal Wyatt Hudson - Philosophy - 1996 - 246 pages
...of therapy, was asked about her religious faith. She described it as "Sheliaism." As she explains: "I believe in God. I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheliaism. Just my own little voice." 14 With the figure of... | |
 | Gerald R McDermott - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 262 pages
...Bellah's Habits oft/zeHeartillustrates this anti-institutional trend perfectly'¿ “I believe in CocL I'm not a religious fanatic. I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism.Just my own little voice.”' Like Sheila, many... | |
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