Pluralism Comes of Age - American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century

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.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Charles H. Lippy

Summary

Starting with the Victorian age, this study moves through the shifting power of US Protestantism and Catholicism into an intense period of immigration and pluralism. Later chapters include the Jewish experience, African American religion, evangelical movements and 20th-century religious thought.

Product details

• Authors: Charles H. Lippy, Lippy Charles H.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2000
• EAN: 9780765601506
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0150-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Weight: 521 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; USA, 20th Century, comparative religion, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Interfaith relations, History of the Americas