2nd Edition
In Gods We Trust New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
By Thomas Robbins
Copyright 1990
558 Pages
by
Routledge
558 Pages
by
Routledge
558 Pages
by
Routledge
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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;... Read more
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
Biography
Thomas Robbins
