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Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions.

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions.(Book review)

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Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions by Paul Lichterman. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2005. 384 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.95.

In this detailed analysis of actual interaction in Protestant church groups, Paul Lichterman gives us reason to rethink conventional notions of social capital and the place of religion in civic life. Using painstaking participant observations and interviews of church-related groups in "Lakeburg," Lichterman demonstrates just how difficult it is for people to build bridging social capital. Elusive Togetherness demonstrates that in order to know what associational life...

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