`Thrashing in the night': Laity speak about religious knowing.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Crain, Margaret Ann; Seymour, Jack
- Source
- Religious Education. Winter97, Vol. 92 Issue 1, p38. 16p.
- Subject
- *LAITY
*RELIGION
*CHURCH
- Language
- ISSN
- 0034-4087
Presents data gathered from interviews of lay persons in the United States about their life stories and the role of religion and the church in their personal meaning-making. Motives that call people to theology; Theological methods used; Engaging in religious knowing; How the church helps religious knowing; Engaging in religious knowing in everyday life.