Pluralism comes of age : American religious culture in the twentieth century

Author(s)

• Lippy, Charles H.

Bibliographic Information

Pluralism comes of age : American religious culture in the twentieth century

Charles H. Lippy

M.E. Sharpe, c2000

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our nation's religious experience.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Planting Pluralism in the United States
• Chapter 2 The Shifting Public Presence of Mainline Protestantism
• Chapter 3 Pluralism's Promise and Perils: American Catholicism in the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 4 The Paradox of Pluralism: The Jewish Experience
• Chapter 5 Religion and the Pride of a People: Black Religion in the United States
• Chapter 6 Syncretism and Pluralism: Native American Experiences in the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 7 Personal Religious Expression in a Pluralistic Culture
• Chapter 8 The Proliferation of Pluralism
• Chapter 9 The Politics of Religion in a Pluralistic Society
• Chapter 10 Pluralistic Turns in American Religious Thought
• Chapter 11 The Persistence of Pluralism

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Details

• NCID: BA48206290
• ISBN:
  • 0765601508
• LCCN: 99088431
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Armonk, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 250 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL2525
  • DC21 : 291.1/72/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religious pluralism -- United States -- History of doctrines -- 20th century
  • LCSH : United States -- Religion -- 20th century