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Title: Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II (Studies in Church and State) by Robert Wuthnow ISBN: 0-691-07328-7 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: A seminal work on American religious history
Comment: Wuthnow's book is a thoughtful and well-researched monograph on major trends in American religious experience since the end of World War II. Wuthnow sees the most significant change as being a decline in the denominational divisions that were once so important in American religious life, and their replacement by a huge chasm between liberal and conservative religious sensibilities, a division Wuthnow points out often cuts as much through denominations as separates them. Perhaps his most important contribution is his effort to place this restructuring in the context of larger trends in American society, notably the divisive politics and cultural innovation of the sixties, the changing role of women and the trememdous expansion of higher education that occurred after World War II. He also notes a degree of continuity between the conservative versus liberal division and the early twentieth-century fundamentalist-modernist conflict within American religion. He is careful, though, to explain and contextualize the greater success the evangelical Christian movement has had in building a movement and mobilizing followers than did the earlier and in many ways similar fundamentalist camp. Perhaps one's only caveat here might be that the book raises many questions it does not fully address about the extent to which American culture is becoming genuinely secular, if it is doing so. Written at a high level of generality, the book also leaves one wondering about how the division of religious life into polarized camps of liberalism and conservativism affects the subjective spiritual experience of Americans. In brief, this book is a major and analytical treatment of a topic that remains very germane to how Americans now live and worship; those desiring to understand how American religion got where it is today should read it.
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Title: After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s by Robert Wuthnow ISBN: 0520222288 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving by Christian Smith, Michael Emerson ISBN: 0226764192 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion. by Wade Clark Roof ISBN: 0691089965 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Christian America: What Evangelicals Really Want by Christian Smith ISBN: 0520234707 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton ISBN: 0520205685 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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