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Informationen zum Autor John Corrigan is Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of History, Florida State University. He is the author of numerous books on religion in America, religion and emotion, and the spatial humanities. He is the editor of the Chicago History of American Religion book series at the University of Chicago Press and coeditor of the Spatial Humanities book series at Indiana University Press. Among his previous OUP books are The Prism of Piety (1991), Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations (2004), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion (2006), and, as coeditor with Amanda Porterfield and Darren Grem, The Business Turn in American Religious History (2015). Klappentext The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America is a groundbreaking collection of 111 detailed scholarly articles that address a wide range of topics in American religious history and culture, written by experts in their fields. It utilizes cutting edge categories of scholarly research to identify the crucial themes, events, people, places, and ideas that have constituted the rich history of religion in America and arranges those categories into fiveinterrelated sections: Space, Religious Ideas, Race and Ethnicity, Public Life, and Empire. Zusammenfassung This encyclopedia consists of a groundbreaking collection of detailed scholarly articles that address a wide range of topics in American religious history and culture, all written by experts in their fields. It is not an amalgam of articles on the traditionally invoked topics that have directed thinking about religion in America. Rather, it is organized in a way that utilizes the most recent categories of scholarly research to identify the crucial themes, events, people, places, and ideas that have constituted the rich history of religion in America. It is arranged in five sections: Space, Religious Ideas, Race and Ethnicity, Public Life, and Empire. In each section, a range of articles address the religious lives of Americans and the institutions, theologies, and social forces that have influenced those lives and given shape to a broad cultural landscape of religion in America. The articles in each section draw upon scholarship from an assortment of fields. As a result, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America is fully interdisciplinary in its approach to religion in America. It is informative about cutting-edge debates not only in the fields of religion and history, but in sociology, geography, philosophy, ethnic studies, literature, and a number of other fields as well. The articles are interconnected in various ways. There are common themes as defined by the section headings, such as space, race, and religious ideas. There are also mutually reinforcing articles on specific topics such as a particular denomination, a distinctive intellectual tradition, gender, class, economics, and immigration. The encyclopedia accordingly is best engaged as a tool that can be read both through and across the categories that organize it. It offers multiple insightful takes on a range of topics and represents the history and culture of religion in America in ways that will both resonate with and challenge the perspectives of readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Space Overview Spatial Approaches to American Religious Studies Built Spaces Space, Architecture, and American Religious Diversity Spatial Strategies of American Megachurches Freemasonry's Sacred Space in America Regions Place and Spirituality in the Pacific Northwest Mormonism and Deseret Environments Natural Space and Religion in North America Urban Space and Religion in the United States Cyberspace and Religion in America Movement The Black Atlantic and the African Diaspora Religious Parades and Processions in America Religious Pilgrimages in the United States Tourism to Sacred Places in Ame...
