Thomas Robbins

In Gods We Trust (eBook, PDF)

New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Much has changed since publication of the first edition of this established text in the sociology of religion. Revised and expanded, this edition emphasizes new patterns of religious change and conflict emerging in the United States in the latter part of the twentieth century. Leading scholars describe and analyze developments in five main areas: The fundamentalist and evangelical revival; challenge and renewal in mainline churches; spiritual innovation and the so-called New Age; women's movements and issues and their impact; and politics and civil religion.

Chapters include an examination of religious movements' responses to AIDS; Christian schools; quasi-religions; healing rites and goddess worship; recruitment of women to charismatic and Hassidic groups,; televangelists and the Christian Right; racist rural populism; contemporary Mormonism and its growth; cults and brainwashing; Jonestown; dissidence in the Catholic church; and trance-channeling, among other topics.

A new introductory chapter by the editors establishes an integrating framework in terms of three themes: increasing conflict and controversy associated with American religion; increasing focus on various forms of power in American religion; and challenges to models of secularization and modernization inherent in religious revival, innovation, and politicization. A concluding chapter by the editors looks at new trends and assesses their possible impact in coming years.

Like its predecessor, this outstanding collection is a significant contribution to the literature as well as a valuable resource for the classroom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351513074
• Artikelnr.: 48867043

Autorenporträt

Thomas Robbins

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I. INTRODUCTORY
Introduction: Conflict and Change in American Religions
1. Religion and Power
II. MILITANT TRADITIONALIST RESURGENCE
2. The Limits of Modernity
3. Fundamentalism Revisited
4. Gender
Education
and the New Christian Right
5. Rural Ideology and the Future of Rural America
6. Virus as Metaphor: Religious Responses to AIDS
III. CHALLENGE AND RENEWAL IN MAINLINE GROUPS
7. The Great Protestant Puzzle: Retreat
Renewal
or Reshuffle?
8. Liberal Protestantism's Struggle to Recapture the Heartland
9. Why Catholics Stay in the Church
10. The Jews: Schism or Division
IV. SPIRITUAL INNOVATION AND THE NEW AGE
11. Modernization
Secularization
and Mormon Success
12. On the Margins of the Sacred
13. Rebottling the Elixir: The Gospel of Prosperity in America's Religioeconomic Corporations
14. Channels to Elsewhere
15. The Apocalypse at Jonestown (with Afterward)
16. Religious Movements and Brainwashing Litigation: Evaluating Key Testimony
V. RELIGIOUS FERMENT AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF WOMEN
17. Women-Church: Catholic Women Produce an Alternative Spirituality
18. In Goddess We Trust
19. Women-Centered Healing Rites: A Study of Alienation and Reintegration
20. Women's Search for Family and Roots: A Jewish Religious Solution to a Modern Dilemma
VI. RELIGION
POLITICS
AND CIVIL RELIGION
21. Religion and Legitimation in the American Republic
22. Religion and Power in the American Experience
23. Citizens and Believers: Always Strangers?
24. Conservative Christians
Televangelism
and Politics: Taking Stock a Decade after the Founding of the Moral Majority
VII. CONCLUSION
25. Civil Religion and Recent American Religious Ferment
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX