The Blackwell companion to religion in America / / edited by Philip Goff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910140605403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-54794-1; 1-78034-575-5; 9786612547942; 1-4051-9744-7; 1-4443-2408-X; 1-4443-2409-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (747 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to religion
• Altri autori (Persone): GoffPhilip <1964->
• Disciplina: 200.973
• Soggetti: Religion; United States Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America; Contents; Preface; Contributors; PART I: Interpreting American Religion; CHAPTER 1: Surveying Religion in America; PART II: Religion in American Society and Culture; CHAPTER 2: The American Revolution; CHAPTER 3: Borderlands; CHAPTER 4: Church and State; CHAPTER 5: Civil Religion; CHAPTER 6: Class and Labor; CHAPTER 7: Denominations; CHAPTER 8: Economics; CHAPTER 9: Family; CHAPTER 10: Film; CHAPTER 11: Gender; CHAPTER 12: Health; CHAPTER 13: Sensory Cultures: Material and Visual Religion Reconsidered; CHAPTER 14: Media; CHAPTER 15: MillennialismCHAPTER 16: Missions; CHAPTER 17: Piety, Practice, and Ritual; CHAPTER 18: Popular Culture; CHAPTER 19: Race and Ethnicity; CHAPTER 20: Regions; CHAPTER 21: Revivals; CHAPTER 22: Science; CHAPTER 23: Social Reform; CHAPTER 24: Theology and Belief; CHAPTER 25: Women; PART III: Traditions and Movements; CHAPTER 26: American Indians; CHAPTER 27: Anabaptists; CHAPTER 28: Baptists; CHAPTER 29: The Black Church; CHAPTER 30: Buddhism; CHAPTER 31: Catholicism to 1945; CHAPTER 32: Catholicism Since 1945; CHAPTER 33: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; CHAPTER 34: Eastern Orthodox ChristianityCHAPTER 35: Evangelicalism; CHAPTER 36: Hinduism; CHAPTER 37: Holiness and Pentecostalism; CHAPTER 38: Islam; CHAPTER 39: Judaism; CHAPTER 40: Lutherans; CHAPTER 41: New and Homegrown Religions; CHAPTER 42: Protestant Liberalism; CHAPTER 43: Reformed Tradition; CHAPTER 44: Wesleyan Tradition; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This authoritative and cutting edge companion brings together a team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity and unique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of the United States. A groundbreaking new volume which represents the first sustained effort to fully explain the development of American religious history and its creation within evolving political and social frameworksSpans a wide range of traditions and movements, from the Baptists and Methodists, to Buddhists and MormonsExplores topics ranging from religion and the media, immigration, and piet