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Zusatztext This collection demonstrates that Marty's separate interests and arresting insights...cohere in a powerful vision of late twentieth-century American culture! at once accepting its complexity and insisting on its uniqueness. — The Journal of Religion "With characteristic clarity! Marty explores religious pluralism in a society that! though frequently acclaimed or decried as 'secular!' finds modern religious varieties flourishing." — Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where for 35 years he taught religious history in three faculties. Since 1956 he has been on the masthead of The Christian Century and is editor of Context. He specializes in American religious history and headed the six-year ""Fundamentalism Project"" of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the National Medal of Humanities and the medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honored with the National Book Award for Righteous Empire in 1971. An ordained Lutheran minister, he frequently also writes on theological themes. Klappentext "With characteristic clarity! Marty explores religious pluralism in a society that! though frequently acclaimed or decried as 'secular!' finds modern religious varieties flourishing." --Library Journal Zusammenfassung America's preeminent religious historian reflects on the critical role of religious diversity in our national self-understanding.
