| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 802 pages) |
| Contents |
THE POSTWAR RELIGIOUS WORLD, 1945 AND FOLLOWING -- Dangerous and Promising Times: American Religion in the Postwar Years / Bill J. Leonard -- Public Religion in Canada from Mackenzie King to Trudeau: Entering the Age of Pluralism, 1945-1982 / George Egerton -- Religion in Mexico, 1945-2010 / Daniel RamÃrez -- American Judaism in the Postwar Period / Deborah Dash Moore -- Suburbanization and Religion / James Hudnut-Beumler -- The Postwar Religious World, 1945 and Following: The Case of Asian Religions in the United States / Jane Iwamura -- CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN TRANSITIONAL TIMES -- Secularization in American Society: A Review of the 1960s / Richard Fenn -- Breaking Silence: Churches and Opposition to the Vietnam / Michael B. Friedland -- The Religious Significance and Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1970 / Sandy Dwayne Martin -- The Kennedy Election: The Church-State Question and Its Legacy / Gerald P.S.J. Fogarty -- Love is the Only Norm: The New Morality and the Sexual Revolution / Heather Rachelle White -- Second Vatican Council / Patrick W. Carey -- The State of Israel / Eli Lederhendler -- THE WORLD's RELIGIONS IN AMERICA -- Interrogating the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Will Herberg's Construction of American Religion, Religious Pluralism, and the Problem of Inclusion / Laura Levitt -- American Buddhism since 1965 / Charles S. Prebish -- Hinduism in America / Vasudha Narayanan -- Islam in America / Jane I. Smith -- Native American Religious Traditions Post-World War II to the Present / Andrea L. Smith -- Latina/o Borderland Religions / Luis Leon -- New Religious Movements in America / J. Gordon Melton -- RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL CONFLICT IN AMERICA -- Race, Religion, and Theological Discourse / Anthony B. Pinn -- American Religion's Fascination with Sex / R. Marie Griffith -- Women and Religion in Modern America / Marjorie Procter-Smith -- Cults in America: Discourse and Outcomes / Catherine Wessinger -- Religious Tensions in a Changing World / R. Laurence Moore -- NEW AND CONTINUING RELIGIOUS REALITIES IN AMERICA -- Post 9/11: America Agonizes over Islam / Ebrahim Moosa -- The Megachurch Phenomenon: Reshaping Church and Faith for the Twenty-First Century / Scott L. Thumma -- Roman Catholicism in America at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century / James M. O'toole -- New Technologies / Stewart M. Hoover -- Reading Race and American Televangelism / Marla Frederick -- Religion, Government, and Law in the Contemporary United States / Daniel Conkle -- Religious Thought in America: 1945 to the Present / Tisa Wenger -- Religion and Missions / Angelyn Dries -- CONCLUDING ESSAYS -- Religion and Myths of Nationhood in Canada and Mexico in the Twenty-First Century / Pamela Klassen -- America's Divided Soul, 2000-2009 / Wade Clark Roof -- Global Religious Realities in the United States / Gary Laderman -- Visions of the Religious Future in the United States / Martin E. Marty |
| Summary |
This history shows complex relationships among American religious communities as well as the growth of distinctive theological ideas and religious practices. The result of this development in North America is a rich religious culture that includes representatives of most of the world's religions. Volume 3 examines the religious situation in the United States from the end of the Second World War to the second decade of the twenty-first century, contextualized in the larger North American continental context |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 23, 2012) |
| Subject |
Religion
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stein, Stephen J., 1940-
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| ISBN |
1139195417 |
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9781139195416 |
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9781139195416 |
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