A decisive turn in the development of religious reflection, this volume seeks to redefine disciplinary self-understanding, and to promote religion as an integral component of cultural studies.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"This reader is a rich feast of little-known American religious delicacies often squeezed off the table by an older understanding of the proper menu. It brings together some of the best in recent scholarship and introduces its readers to just how wonderfully varied and complicated our story is." -- Nancy Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Hartford Seminary, and co-editor of Work, Family, and Religion In American Culture (Routledge)."... timely and provocative ...""Changing Conversations is a breakthrough in contemporary constructive theology." -- Journal of Religion