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Author : Matthew Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (913 download)
Download or read book The Meaning and Practice of Religion in Middle Class America written by Matthew Fox and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean McCloud
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171428
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Religion and Class in America written by Sean McCloud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class has always played a role in American religion. Class differences in religious life are inevitably felt by both those in the pews and those on the outside looking in. This volume starts a long overdue discussion about how class continues to matter - and perhaps even ways in which it does not - in American religion. Class is indeed important, whether one examines it through analysis of events and documents, surveys and interviews, or participant observation of religious groups. The chapters herein examine class as a reality that is both material and symbolic, individual and corporate. "Religion and Class in America" examines the myriad ways in which class continues to interact with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and group affiliations of American religion.
Author : Lisa D. Pearce
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520296427
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Religion in America written by Lisa D. Pearce and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an engaging and accessible tone, Religion in America probes the dynamics of recent American religious beliefs and behaviors. Charting trends over time using demographic data, this book examines how patterns of religious affiliation, service attendance, and prayer vary by race and ethnicity, social class, and gender. The authors identify demographic processes such as birth, death, and migration, as well as changes in education, employment, and families, as central to why some individuals and congregations experience change in religious practices and beliefs while others hold steady. Religion in America challenges students to examine the demographic data alongside everyday accounts of how religion is experienced differently across social groups to better understand the role that religion plays in the lives of Americans today and how that is changing.
Author : Franklin Hills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Middle Class Religious Ideology and the Underclass Struggle written by Franklin Hills and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: The trajectory of religious phenomena has been to give a reflective, yet formative understanding of the ethos endemic to a culture. Pursuant to this thought, the ethos of African American religion can rightfully be described as a religious sociological construct, mired in a myriad of changes. These changes have had a profound effect on how African Americans relate to their God, their world, and themselves. The chief aim of this enterprise is to chronicle the transformation of Black Religion in the United States, noting the social and economic factors that served synergistically to formulate its current mission. I conclude that the advancements made during the Civil Rights Era have served as an impetus, within the past thirty years, that has resulted in a shift in the mission of Black Religion. I contend that this shift is away from the traditional communal appeal to a more individualistic appeal that substantiates middle-class African American religious ideology. I further contend that the rise of the African American middle-class religious ideology has contributed to the perpetual state of the African American underclass as illustrated in Black Religion. In undertaking this effort, I have drawn from an assortment of books and articles in addition to church literature, audio sermons, and personal interviews. In establishing a premise for this argument, this thesis will explore the religious modus vivendi of early slaves. The Black Church was born out of the need to combat the atrocities and vicissitudes that were directly and indirectly a result of slavery. Slavery, therefore, provides a meaningful basis in which to begin to understand the embryonic stage of the church. After examining the formative years of Black Religion, I will then construct a cogent argument as to how the Civil Rights Movement employed Black Religion as a tool to empower the Black community, thus appealing to the community. I will then proceed to compare how Black Religion was employed during the Civil Rights Era to how it is employed presently. This comparison will provide the premise for my argument.
Author : Lance Moore
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781479284962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Class Crucifixion written by Lance Moore and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class Crucifixion: Money, Power, Religion and the Death of the Middle Class Greed, Class Warfare, and the Rising Fourth Reich Crucifixion? A strong word, not always one with religious overtones, but chosen here to signify more than a gentle, natural death. The American middle class-the world's best hope for democracy and freedom-is being destroyed. And ironically, the modern perpetrators claim to follow the teachings of the most-famous victim of political and religious power-mongering. In Jesus' time, the religious elite and the ruling political class conspired to crucify him; today, the working class is being betrayed in the name of Jesus by yet another cabal of power, money and religion. Dr. Lance Moore, author, pastor and businessman, believes the current war being waged against the middle class is not Christian at all, but instead is a "Fourth Reich of the Rich" blitzkrieg -rooted in greed. Drawing upon history, economics, religion and compelling logic, he pops modern myths, showing: -How free markets aren't free -That the biggest welfare recipients are corporations -How Goldman-Sachs got rich selling a manure sandwich -Why CEO's are overpaid (including the true story of the chimp who picked stocks better than the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street). Moore offers solutions, but does not advocate bigger government or communist-style confiscation of private property. "One principle of capitalism is indisputable: money motivates. But profit and productivity do not require a 'Girls Gone Wild' capitalism. A trained and reined Kentucky Derby winner runs faster than unbridled wild horses. It's time to re-examine the laissez-faire proposition that the 'invisible hand' of the market is an intelligent way to run our world. Time for a new ethic, time to put people before profits, time to save the American Dream." "If you are not angry, you haven't been paying attention!" Edward Wesley "Every responsible and virtuous citizen should read three things: the Scriptures, a daily newspaper... and this book!" Dr. Thomas Lane Butts
Author : Paul G. King
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Risking Liberation written by Paul G. King and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean McCloud
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080787762X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Divine Hierarchies written by Sean McCloud and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in today's world. More than a status grounded in material conditions, says McCloud, class is also an identity rhetorically and symbolically made and unmade through representations. It entails relationships, identifications, boundaries, meanings, power, and our most ingrained habits of mind and body. He demonstrates that employing class as an analytical tool that cuts across variables such as creed, race, ethnicity, and gender can illuminate American religious life in unprecedented ways. Through social theory, historical analysis, and ethnography, McCloud makes an interdisciplinary argument for reinserting class into the study of religion. First, he offers a new three-part conception of class for use in studying religion. He then presents a focused cultural history of religious studies by examining how social class surfaced in twentieth-century theories of religious affiliation. He concludes with historical and ethnographic case studies of religion and class. Divine Hierarchies makes a convincing case for the past and present importance of class in American religious thought, practice, and scholarship.
Author : Philip Goff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444324099
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America written by Philip Goff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and cutting edge companion brings togethera team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity andunique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of theUnited States. A groundbreaking new volume which represents the firstsustained effort to fully explain the development of Americanreligious history and its creation within evolving political andsocial frameworks Spans a wide range of traditions and movements, from theBaptists and Methodists, to Buddhists and Mormons Explores topics ranging from religion and the media,immigration, and piety, though to politics and social reform Considers how American religion has influenced and beeninterpreted in literature and popular culture Provides insights into the historiography of religion, butpresents the subject as a story in motion rather than a snapshot ofwhere the field is at a given moment
Author : Loren Baritz
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Good Life written by Loren Baritz and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading American historian provides the most comprehensive and interesting survey yet of the growth of the middle class in America. Baritz follows the development of the "mainstream" and details the shifting values and ideas from the twenties through the Depression and WWII to the seventies.
Author : Charles H. Lippy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135070210
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Religion in Contemporary America written by Charles H. Lippy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh, engaging multi-disciplinary introduction to religion in contemporary America. The chapters explore the roots of contemporary American religion from the 1950s up to the present day, looking at the major traditions including mainline Protestantism, the evangelical-pentecostal surge, Catholicism, Judaism, African-American religions and new religious movements. The authors ask whether Americans are becoming less religious, and how religious thought has moved from traditional systematic theology to approaches such as black and feminist theology and environmental theology. The book introduces religion and social theory, and explores key issues and themes such as: religion and social change; politics; gender; sexuality; diversity; race and poverty. Students and instructors will find the combination of historical and sociological perspectives an invaluable aid to understanding this fascinating but complex field.
Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837243
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United States as a Christian society. How are we adapting to the new diversity? Do we casually announce that we "respect" the faiths of non-Christians without understanding much about those faiths? Are we willing to do the hard work required to achieve genuine religious pluralism? Award-winning author Robert Wuthnow tackles these and other difficult questions surrounding religious diversity and does so with his characteristic rigor and style. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity looks not only at how we have adapted to diversity in the past, but at the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding today. Drawing from a new national survey and hundreds of in-depth qualitative interviews, this book is the first systematic effort to assess how well the nation is meeting the current challenges of religious and cultural diversity. The results, Wuthnow argues, are both encouraging and sobering--encouraging because most Americans do recognize the right of diverse groups to worship freely, but sobering because few Americans have bothered to learn much about religions other than their own or to engage in constructive interreligious dialogue. Wuthnow contends that responses to religious diversity are fundamentally deeper than polite discussions about civil liberties and tolerance would suggest. Rather, he writes, religious diversity strikes us at the very core of our personal and national theologies. Only by understanding this important dimension of our culture will we be able to move toward a more reflective approach to religious pluralism.
Author : Alan Wolfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226905187
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of American Religion written by Alan Wolfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astounding account, a leading sociologist demonstrates that religion in America has become so tamed and softened that it hardly serves any of its original functions.
Author : Michael Pasquier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317617754
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Religion in America: The Basics written by Michael Pasquier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion in America: The Basics is a concise introduction to the historical development of religions in the United States. It is an invitation to explore the complex tapestry of religious beliefs and practices that shaped life in North America from the colonial encounters of the fifteenth century to the culture wars of the twenty-first century. Far from a people unified around a common understanding of Christianity, Religion in America: The Basics tracks the steady diversification of the American religious landscape and the many religious conflicts that changed American society. At the same time, it explores how Americans from a variety of religious backgrounds worked together to face the challenges of racism, poverty, war, and other social concerns. Because no single survey can ever satisfy the need to know more and think differently, Religion in America prepares readers to continue studying American religions with their own questions and perspectives in mind.
Author : Peter W. Williams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209770X
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book America's Religions written by Peter W. Williams and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classroom perennial and comprehensive guide, America's Religions lays out the background, beliefs, practices, and leaders of the nation's religious movements and denominations. The fourth edition, thoroughly revised and updated by Peter W. Williams, draws on the latest scholarship. In addition to reconsidering the history of America's mainline faiths, it delves into contemporary issues like religion's impact on politics and commerce; the increasingly high profile of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam; Mormonism's entry into the mainstream; and battles over gay marriage and ordination.
Author : John Corrigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351190296
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Religion in America written by John Corrigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive narrative account of religion in America from the sixteenth century through the present depicts the religious life of the American people within the context of American society. It addresses topics ranging from the European origins of American religious thought and the diversity of religion in America, to the relation of nationhood with religious practice and the importance of race, ethnicity, and gender in American religious history. Split into four parts this textbook covers: Religion in a Colonial Context, 1492-1789 The New Nation, 1789-1865 Years of Midpassage, 1865-1918 Modern America, 1918- Present This new edition has been thoroughly updated to include further discussion of colonialism, religious minorities, space and empire, religious freedom, emotion, popular religion, sexuality, the ascent of the "nones," Islamophobia, and the development of an American mission to the world. With a detailed timeline, illustrations and maps throughout, and an accompanying companion website Religion in America is the perfect introduction for students new to the study of this topic who wish to understand the key themes, places, and people who shaped the world as we know it today.
Author : Matthew S. Hedstrom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190452005
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Liberal Religion written by Matthew S. Hedstrom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Best First Book Prize of the American Society of Church History Society for U. S. Intellectual History Notable Title in American Intellectual History The story of liberal religion in the twentieth century, Matthew S. Hedstrom contends, is a story of cultural ascendency. This may come as a surprise-most scholarship in American religious history, after all, equates the numerical decline of the Protestant mainline with the failure of religious liberalism. Yet a look beyond the pews, into the wider culture, reveals a more complex and fascinating story, one Hedstrom tells in The Rise of Liberal Religion. Hedstrom attends especially to the critically important yet little-studied arena of religious book culture-particularly the religious middlebrow of mid-century-as the site where religious liberalism was most effectively popularized. By looking at book weeks, book clubs, public libraries, new publishing enterprises, key authors and bestsellers, wartime reading programs, and fan mail, among other sources, Hedstrom is able to provide a rich, on-the-ground account of the men, women, and organizations that drove religious liberalism's cultural rise in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Critically, by the post-WWII period the religious middlebrow had expanded beyond its Protestant roots, using mystical and psychological spirituality as a platform for interreligious exchange. This compelling history of religion and book culture not only shows how reading and book buying were critical twentieth-century religious practices, but also provides a model for thinking about the relationship of religion to consumer culture more broadly. In this way, The Rise of Liberal Religion offers both innovative cultural history and new ways of seeing the imprint of liberal religion in our own times.
Author : Charles C. Haynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879861131
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Teaching about Religion in the Social Studies Classroom written by Charles C. Haynes and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
