Coming Together/Coming Apart

• Chapter 1 Chaos or Community?; Chapter 2 All That Is Solid Melts into Air; Chapter 3 Liberal Illness, Communal Remedies; Chapter 4 Sisterhood, Family, and Society; Chapter 5 Community APart; Chapter 6 Community, Civil Society, and Solidarity;

"... finding shared values and community in America comes from valuing our differences and not from a return to the ideology of the "melting pot"..." -- Mark R. Kowalewski, Anglican Theological Review"Coming Together, Coming Apart is a useful survey of contemporary American religious thinkers on the crisis in public ethics resulting from the transformations of life and institutions in our society under the impact of advanced capitalism." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion"...Coming Together, Coming Apart is a useful survey of contemporary American religious thinkers on the crisis in public ethics resulting from the transformations of life and institutions in our society under the impact of advanced capitalism ." -- Journal of the AmericanAcademy of Religion"... a fine liberal apporach to and discussion of community ... After reading this book, no one will use the term community again without realizing the complexity of the term." -- Catholic Library World