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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958684503321

Autore

Lippy Charles H.

Titolo

Pluralism comes of age : American religious culture in the twentieth century / / Charles H. Lippy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-46273-4

0-7656-0151-6

1-315-70173-1

0-585-38329-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

291.1720973

Soggetti

Religious pluralism - United States - History of doctrines - 20th century

United States Religion 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2000 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""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""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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.