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Religion in America Since 1945 A History

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ISBN-10: 0231121547

ISBN-13: 9780231121545

Edition: 2003

Authors: Patrick Allitt

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Moving far beyond the realm of traditional "church history," Patrick Allitt here offers a vigorous and erudite survey of the broad canvas of American religion since World War II. Identifying the major trends and telling moments within major denominations and also in less formal religious movements, he asks how these religious groups have shaped, and been shaped by, some of the most important and divisive issues and events of the last half century: the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, feminism and the sexual revolution, abortion rights, the antinuclear and environmentalist movements, and many others. Allitt argues that the boundaries between religious and political…    
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Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/17/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.94" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Preface
Anxious Victory: 1945-1952
The War's End
The American Religious Landscape
Cold War of the Spirit
Spiritual Peace in the 1940s
Religion and Materialism: 1950-1970
Fighting Godless Communism
Religious Intellectuals in the 1950s
Eisenhower Spirituality
Church Buildings
Religion, Respect, and Social Change: 1955-1968
African American Religion
The Civil Rights Movement Begins
White Christians and Civil Rights
Nonviolence in Decline
Mormon America
New Frontiers and Old Boundaries: 1960-1969
The Catholic President
The Supreme Court and Religion in Schools
Vietnam, Part I
Radical Theology
Catholic Reform
Shaking the Foundations: 1963-1972
American Judaism
Vietnam, Part II
Catholic Challenges to Church Discipline
African American Religion After King
Alternative Religious Worlds: 1967-1982
Space Travel
Feminism and Ministry
Feminist Theology
New Religions, "Cults," and Their Critics
Asian Spirituality in American Dress
Evangelicals and Politics: 1976-1990
Jimmy Carter and the Evangelical Presidency
The New Christian Right and the Reagan Campaign
The Abortion Controversy
Wives and Mothers
The Christian Quest for Justice and Wisdom: 1980-1995
The Antinuclear Movement
Sanctuary
Creationism and Evolution
Christian Academies and Home Schooling
Profits, Profligates, and Prophets: 1987-1995
The Evangelical Scandals
A Minister in the White House?
American Islam
The New World Order: 1989-1999
End of the Cold War
Religion and Violence
Environmental Spirituality
Megachurches
Fears, Threats, and Promises: 1990-2000
Homosexuality and Religion
Promise Keepers
Millennial Expectation
The New Millennium: 2001
Religion at Ground Zero
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index