1st Edition
Great Awakenings Popular Religion and Popular Culture
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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As religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Lifetime Achievement from The American Culture Association, takes a sweeping look at religion in the United States--the country with the highest church attendance in the Western world. Popular religion can take many shapes and forms. It can wax and wane, but it cannot be eliminated or ignored. That is what... Read more
Contents
Preface
- Introduction
- The Atlantic Seaboard Awakening
- The Appalachian Awakening
- The Urban Awakening
- The New American Gospel
- Confronting the Serpent
- The Modernist Awakening
- Civil Religion
- Secular Salvation
- Religion on the Airwaves
- Star to the Stars
- The Aging Eagle
- The Electronic Awakening
- Dixie’s Holy Warriors
- The Chicken Little Panic
- Big Mac and Big Jesus: Brave New McWorld
- Some Final Thoughts
- Further Information
- Further Reading
- Index
Biography
Frank Hoffmann, Marshall Fishwick, Beulah B Ramirez
