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Author : David G. Hackett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780415942737
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467451398
While Americans still profess to be one of the most religious people in the industrialized world, many aspects of American culture have long been secular and materialistic. That is just one of the many paradoxes, contradictions, and surprises in the relationship between Christianity and American culture. In this book George Marsden, a leading historian of American Christianity and award-winning author, tells the story of that relationship in a concise and thought-provoking way. Surveying the history of religion and American culture from the days of the earliest European settlers right up through the elections of 2016, Marsden offers the kind of historically and religiously informed scholarship that has made him one of the nation’s most respected and decorated historians. Students in the classroom and history readers of all ages will benefit from engaging with the story Marsden tells.
Author : Peter W. Williams
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781577181187
These essays feature a variety of topics on religion from the United States covering both historical and contemporary times. Topics covered include the African American and Native American religious experience and the roles of gender and family.
Author : Philip Goff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807875821
Designed to serve as an introduction to American religion, this volume is distinctive in its approach: instead of following a traditional narrative, the book is arranged thematically. Eleven chapters by top scholars present, in carefully organized and accessible fashion, topics and perspectives fundamental to the understanding of religion in America. Some of the chapters treat aspects of faith typical to most religious groups, such as theology, proselytization, supernaturalism, and cosmology. Others deal with race, ethnicity, gender, the state, economy, science, diversity, and regionalism--facets of American culture that often interact with religion. Each topical essay is structured chronologically, divided into sections on pre-colonial, colonial, revolutionary and early republican, antebellum, postbellum and late nineteenth-century, early twentieth-century, and modern America. One can study the extended history of a certain theme, or read "across" the book for a study of all the themes during a specific period in history. This book's new approach offers a rich analysis of the genuine complexity of American religious life. With a helpful glossary of basic religious terms, movements, people, and groups, this book will become an essential tool for students and teachers of religion. Contributors: Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore College Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University William Durbin, Washington Theological Union Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University James German, State University of New York, Potsdam Philip Goff, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis Paul Harvey, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Sue Marasco, Vanderbilt University Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University of Chicago Divinity School Roberto Trevino, University of Texas, Arlington David Weaver-Zercher, Messiah College
Author : Jeffrey Scholes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1135121354
Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still tightly intertwined. While there is widespread suspicion that sports are slowly encroaching on the territory historically occupied by religion, Scholes and Sassower assert that sports are not replacing religion and that neither is sports a religion. Instead, the authors look at the relationship between sports and religion in America from a post-secular perspective that looks at both discourses as a part of the same cultural web. In this way each institution is able to maintain its own integrity, legitimacy, and unique expression of cultural values as they relate to each other. Utilizing important themes that intersect both religion and sports, Scholes and Sassower illuminate the complex and often publicly contentious relationship between the two. Appropriate for both classroom use and for the interested non-specialist, Religion and Sports in American Culture brings pilgrimage, sacrifice, relics, and redemption together in an unexpected cultural continuity.
Author : Bruce David Forbes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520965221
The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture. Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture provides a framework to help students understand and appreciate the work in diverse fields, methods, and perspectives contains an updated introduction, discussion questions, and other instructional tools
Author : Charles L. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299225742
Explores how a variety of print media—religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary “Bible-zines”—have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War
Author : David G. Hackett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion and culture
ISBN : 9780415942720
Religion and American Culture challenges the religion's traditional emphasis on older European, American, male, middle-class, Protestant, northeastern narratives concerned primarily with churches and theology. Breaking through the field with multicultural tales of Native American, African Americans and other groups that cut across boundaries of gender, class, religion and region, David Hackett's anthology offers an illuminating and comprehensive overview of the most exciting work currently underway in this field.
Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135207852
One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today.
Author : Bruce David Forbes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520246898
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: “A solid introduction to the dialogue between the disciplines of cultural studies and religion…. A substantive foundation for subsequent exploration.”—Religious Studies Review “A splendid collection of lively essays by fourteen scholars dealing with religion and popular culture on the contemporary American scene.”—Choice