Meredith B Mcguire

Biographic Data

ID3604212
NAMEMeredith B Mcguire
GIVEN NAMESMeredith B
FAMILY NAMEMcguire
SIGNATUREMCGUIRE M B
AFFILIATIONSMontclair State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS141
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX6

  • Individual sensory experiences, socialized senses, and everyday lived religion in practice

    Open AccessMeredith B McguireARTICLESocial Compass2016Cited by: 38References: 18

    Building on the conference theme, 'Sensing Religion', this article argues that the sociology of religion needs to pay attention to sensory experiences. Our discipline has traditionally focused on religion's cognitive qualities - beliefs, creeds, and theologies - along with its organizational structures. By and large, we have failed to encounter, much less think about, other aspects of religion, particularly those that involve the senses. We have …

  • Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life

    Open AccessMeredith B McguireBOOKLived Religion2008

    What are we to make of the Latina schoolteacher who considers herself a good Catholic, rarely attends Mass, but meditates daily at her home altar (where she mixes images of the Virgin of Guadalupe with those of Frida Kahlo, and traditional votive candles with healing crystals), yet feels particularly spiritual while preparing food for religious celebrations in her neighborhood? Diverse religious practices such as these have long baffled scholars …

  • Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion

    Mike Mcmullen, J V Spickard et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

    Over the last decade the sociology of religion and religious studies have experienced a surge of ethnographic research. Scholars now use ethnography, as anthropologists have long done, as a valued source of knowledge from which they draw their pictures of the religious world. Yet, many researchers of religion have yet to grapple with the issues that are changing anthropologists' use of the method. Personal Knowledge and Beyond seeks to foster a c…

  • Personal Knowledge and beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion

    Wendy Griffin, J V Spickard et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion2003

    Journal Article Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the ethnography of religion, by James Spickard, J. Shawn Landres, and Meredith Mcguire (editors). New York: New York University Press. 2002, 284 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $20.00 (paper) Get access Wendy Griffin Wendy Griffin CA. State U. Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Winter 2003, Pages 532–534, https:…

  • Narratives of Commitment: Social Activism and Radical Catholic Identity

    Open AccessMeredith B Mcguire, J V SpickardARTICLETemenos - Nordic Journal for the…2002Cited by: 1

    No abstract available

  • Personal Knowledge and beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion

    Donald E Ratcliff, Donald Ratcliff et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research2002

  • Not All Alternatives Are Complementary

    Open AccessMeredith B McguireARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2002Cited by: 4References: 3

  • Alternative Health Care: Medicine, Miracle, or Mirage

    Meredith B Mcguire, Michael S GoldsteinARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2000

  • Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America

    Meredith B Mcguire, Colleen McdannellARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1997

  • Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America: A Different Logic

    Meredith B Mcguire, Cristián Parker et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1997

    This landmark work constitutes a complete historical, sociological, and political view of religion as a cultural expression in the genesis of modern-day Latin America

  • Religion and Healing the Mind/Body/Self

    Open AccessMeredith B McguireARTICLESocial Compass1996

    In order to understand the linkage between religion and healing, we must go well beyond the theme of body regulation. Although religion does involve body regulation and control, and although these functions are reflected in healing practices, there are many other ways by which religion is linked with human bodies. We will arrive at a far richer appreciation of this linkage if we start with a broad sociology of the human body, its illnesses and he…

  • The political economy of responsibility in health and illness

    Open AccessJohn M Donahue, Meredith B McguireARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1995Cited by: 12References: 10

  • The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing

    Meredith B McguireREVIEWSociology of Religion1995Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing, by Thomas J. Csordas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, xvi + 322 pp. $40.00 Get access Meredith B. McGuire Meredith B. McGuire Trinity University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 3, Fall 1995, Pages 341-342, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711829 Published: 01 October 1995

  • Where Silence Speaks: Feminism, Social Theory, and Religion

    Meredith B Mcguire, Victoria Lee EricksonARTICLESociology of Religion1995

    Journal Article Where Silence Speaks: Feminism, Social Theory, and Religion, by Victoria Lee Erickson. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993, xix + 219 pp. $17.00 paper Get access Meredith B. McGuire Meredith B. McGuire Trinity University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 2, Summer 1995, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711766 Published: 01 July 1995

  • Emerging Themes in U.S. Sociology of Religion / L'Emergence de nouveaux thèmes dans la sociologie des religions aux États-Unis

    Meredith B McguireARTICLEArchives de sciences sociales des…1993

    Este articulo tiene por objetivo la identificación de ciertos temas y probematicas cuya emergencia ha empezado ya a modificar el panorama de las investigaciones en la sociologia de las religiones. Este panorama, dominado hasta los anos 60 por el analisis del funcionamento de las denominaciones cristianas, ha vacilado frente al desarollo de las teorias del conflicto, a la influencia de la fenomenologia y del interaccionismo simbólico, y al ascenso…

  • Health and Spirituality as Contemporary Concerns

    Open AccessMeredith B McguireARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1993Cited by: 7References: 6

    One theme of particular importance in contemporary U.S. religion and quasi-religion is health and healing. Groups as diverse as Pentecostal Christians and New Age groups, women's spirituality groups and New Thought churches are promoting non-medical approaches to health and healing. Indeed, to many contemporary Americans, health and healing appear to be salient metaphors for salvation and holiness. Religious and quasi-religious attention to healt…

  • Religion: The Social Context

    Janet L Jacobs, Janet Jacobs et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1993

  • Religion and Region: Sociological and Historical Perspectives

    Meredith B McguireARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1991

    T1his symposium has been a brief opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange between sociologists and historians with a helpful focus on specific regional and denominational patterns. As the lively discussion following these papers has shown, The Third Disestablishment proves to be a useful springboard for interpretation of broad historical changes. We need more such interdisciplinary interchange of ideas, because sociological survey methods tend …

  • Religion and the Body: Rematerializing the Human Body in the Social Sciences of Religion

    Meredith B McguireARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1990Cited by: 47References: 8

    IllThe social sciences of religion could be transformed by taking seriously the fact that humans are embodied.A new conceptualization of a mindful body has the potential to lead to profound shifts in how we view our subjects and their worlds.Our research strategies need to take into account that believers (and nonbelievers) are not merely disembodied spirits, but that they experience a material world in and through their bodies.Greater awareness …

  • Ritual Healing in Suburban America

    Irene Dabrowski, Irene J Dabrowski et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1989

  • Ritual Healing in Suburban America

    Nancy T Ammerman, Meredith B Mcguire et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1989

    Journal Article Ritual Healing in Suburban America, by Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988, xii + 324 pp. $39; $13 (paper) Get access Nancy T. Ammerman Nancy T. Ammerman Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 4, Winter 1989, Pages 434–435, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710782 Published: 01 De…

  • Ritual Healing in Suburban America

    Ross P Scherer, Meredith B Mcguire et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1989

  • Religion, the social context

    Meredith B McguireBOOKReligion, the social context1987

  • Ritual, Symbolism and Healing

    Open AccessMeredith B McguireARTICLESocial Compass1987Cited by: 6References: 30

    L'Auteur de cet article examine divers cas d'emploi de symboles verbaux et non verbaux dans des groupes de guérison alternatifs au sein de la société moderne. Des ' mots-rituels ' se caractérisent par le fait que leurs usagers les dotent d'un pouvoir et d'une efficacité de guérison qui va au-delà de leur sens littéral. Dans plusieurs des groupes étudiés, on insiste sur l'auto-guérison obtenue de la sorte et, dans ce sens, le rituel de guérison a …

  • Sickness and Sectarianism (Book)

    Open AccessMeredith B McguireARTICLESociology of Health & Illness1986