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Religion in America since 1945 : a history / Patrick Allitt.
LIBRA BL2525 .A44 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allitt, Patrick.
- Series:
- Columbia histories of modern American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Religion--1945-.
- United States.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Identifying the major trends and telling moments within both major denominations and other less formal religious movements, Allitt asks how these religious groups have shaped, and been shaped by, some of the most important and divisive political issues and events of the last half century, including the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, feminism and the sexual revolution, abortion rights, and the antinuclear and environmentalist movements.
- Contents:
- 1. Anxious Victory: 1945-1952 1
- The War's End 1
- The American Religious Landscape 5
- Cold War of the Spirit 12
- Spiritual Peace in the 1940s 16
- 2. Religion and Materialism: 1950-1970 21
- Fighting Godless Communism 21
- Religious Intellectuals in the 1950s 26
- Eisenhower Spirituality 31
- Church Buildings 33
- 3. Religion, Respect, and Social Change: 1955-1968 43
- African American Religion 44
- The Civil Rights Movement Begins 47
- White Christians and Civil Rights 52
- Nonviolence in Decline 55
- Mormon America 59
- 4. New Frontiers and Old Boundaries: 1960-1969 65
- The Catholic President 65
- The Supreme Court and Religion in Schools 68
- Vietnam, Part I 70
- Radical Theology 72
- Catholic Reform 80
- 5. Shaking the Foundations: 1963-1972 87
- American Judaism 87
- Vietnam, Part II 100
- Catholic Challenges to Church Discipline 107
- African American Religion After King 111
- 6. Alternative Religious Worlds: 1967-1982 116
- Space Travel 116
- Feminism and Ministry 122
- Feminist Theology 127
- New Religions, "Cults," and Their Critics 133
- Asian Spirituality in American Dress 140
- 7. Evangelicals and Politics: 1976-1990 148
- Jimmy Carter and the Evangelical Presidency 148
- The New Christian Right and the Reagan Campaign 150
- The Abortion Controversy 159
- Wives and Mothers 164
- 8. The Christian Quest for Justice and Wisdom: 1980-1995 170
- The Antinuclear Movement 171
- Sanctuary 174
- Creationism and Evolution 180
- Christian Academies and Home Schooling 185
- 9. Profits, Profligates, and Prophets: 1987-1995 191
- The Evangelical Scandals 191
- A Minister in the White House? 195
- American Islam 198
- 10. The New World Order: 1989-1999 208
- End of the Cold War 208
- Religion and Violence 212
- Environmental Spirituality 217
- Megachurches 227
- 11. Fears, Threats, and Promises: 1990-2000 231
- Homosexuality and Religion 231
- Promise Keepers 241
- Millennial Expectation 246
- 12. The New Millennium: 2001 252
- Religion at Ground Zero 252.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231121547
- OCLC:
- 52509592
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