ISBN:
0415448581
,
041544859X
,
9780415448581
,
9780415448598
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 268 S.
,
Ill
,
26 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
World religions series
DDC:
200.973
Keywords:
United States Religion
;
USA
;
Religion
;
Protestantismus
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Selected religious themes and ideas from European, native American, and African life that set the stage for what became religion in the U.S. -- Clash of religious cultures and accommodation -- Accidental diversity -- Diversity in the age of independence -- "Religion in Red, Black, and White": the dimensions of diversity within the African American experience during slavery -- Expanding frontiers; geographic and ideological -- The growth of Roman Catholic immigration and Jewish immigration -- Efforts at unity amid diversity as seen in social reform activities -- Region as a factor in diversity -- How later nineteenth century urbanization and industrialization augmented diversity -- New religious alternatives that emerged in industrializing America -- Retrenchment and reaction after World War I -- Intellectual currents of modernity and beyond -- Challenges to diversity in the 20th century as seen through court cases -- New faces of diversity -- Sex, sexuality, and spirituality
Description / Table of Contents:
Religious diversity in the age of colonial conquest -- European settlers increase religious diversity -- The expanding religious culture of English colonial America -- Religion in an age of revolution -- Native Americans and African Americans challenge religious life -- Evangelical America -- Religious experimentation brings more diversity -- Catholic and Jewish growth stretch diversity -- The impact of Civil War and regionalism -- Immigrants, industries, and cities -- Other dimensions of urbanizing America -- Modernity brings more change -- Reaction and retreat -- Quests for unity amid diversity -- The "new pluralism" of the later twentieth century -- The many faces of pluralism in postmodern America.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-258) and index
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