Research Catalog

Title

America, religions, and religion / Catherine L. Albanese.

Author

Albanese, Catherine L.

Publication

Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Pub., c1999.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 549 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Since its first publication in 1981, AMERICA: RELIGIONS AND RELIGION has become the standard introduction to the study of American religious traditions. Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field of American religions, this textbook has introduced thousands of students to the rich religious diversity that has always been a hallmark of the American religious experience. Beginning with native American religious traditions and following the course of America's religious history up to the present day, this text gives students the benefit of the author's extensive, influential scholarship in a clear manner that has proven to be readily accessible for today's undergraduates. This long-awaited new edition explores a variety recent events and developments, including increasing religious pluralism, the growth of postpluralism and the culture of religious combinations, recent religious change among Native Americans, renewed interest in the Kabbalah among Jews and others, present-day concerns in Catholicism and among Protestants, the Christian Right, new spirituality, religion and sexuality.

Subject

• United States > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Elephant in the dark -- Original manyness : native American traditions -- Israel in a promised land : Jewish religion and peoplehood -- Bread and mortar : the presence of Roman Catholicism -- Word from the beginning : American Protestant origins and the liberal tradition -- Restoring an ancient future : the Protestant churches and the mission mind -- Black center : African-American religion and nationhood -- Visions of paradise planted : nineteenth-century new religions -- Homesteads of the mind : belief and practice in metaphysics -- East is west : eastern peoples and eastern religions -- Religional religion : a case study of religion in Appalachia -- Fundamentals of the New Age : an epilogue of present-day pluralism -- Public protestantism : historical dominance and the one religion of the United States -- Civil religion : millennial politics and history -- Cultural religion : millennial explorations of dominance and innocence -- Many centers meeting.

ISBN

0534504574 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97053209^

OCLC

38168342

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library