American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future - Couverture souple

Roof, Wade Clark; McKinney, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813512166 ISBN 13 : 9780813512167

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney argue that a new voluntarism is slowly eroding the old social and economic boundaries that once defined and separated religious groups and is opening new cleavages along moral and life-style lines. Nowhere has the impact of these changes been more profoundly felt than by the often-overlooked religious communities of the American center, or mainline--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish.

"American Mainline Religion" provides a new "mapping" of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. Going beyond the headlines in daily newspapers, Roof and McKinney document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated and public-minded Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism as a religious and cultural force.

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À propos de l'auteur

WADE CLARK ROOF was a well-known commentator on religious trends in the United States. He was the J. F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He authored many books, including A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Lives of the Baby Boom Generation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813512166
• ISBN 13: 9780813512167
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible