Religion In America Today

Author : Richard Stivers,J. M. van der Laan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725293120

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Religion in American Today describes how sacred powers and secular religions have overtaken and infiltrated Christianity. Secular religion is now dominant in America: It assumes the forms of personal religion and political religion. Christianity makes its living within the confines of these secular religions. The point of the book is to identify the idolatry in what now passes for Christianity. Technology and the political state are socially constructed as sacred powers. As such they are idols. In its slumber Christianity embraces technology and the political state to the point of becoming subordinate to them. Concurrently technology and the political state give rise to the dominant secular religions. Personal religion acts as a consumer service, a psychological technique, to acquire health and happiness in this life. Political religion is a consequence of politics replacing religion in the quest for collective meaning in a technological society. Political movements become religious revivals and political parties, churches. This book is an attempt to awaken Christians to the idols that beckon.

Author : Rhys H. Williams,Raymond Haberski Jr.,Philip Goff
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479809851

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Civil Religion Today by Rhys H. Williams,Raymond Haberski Jr.,Philip Goff Pdf

"An important concept that scholars have used to help understand the relationship between religion and the American nation and polity has been 'civil religion.' A seminal article by Robert Bellah appeared just over fifty years ago. A multi-disciplinary array of scholars in this volume assess the concept's origins, history, and continued usefulness. In a period of great political polarization, considering whether there is hope for a unifying value and belief system seems more important than ever"--

Author : Wade Clark Roof
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X004170870

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Religion in America Today by Wade Clark Roof Pdf

Author : Lisa D. Pearce,Claire Chipman Gilliland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520968929

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Religion in America by Lisa D. Pearce,Claire Chipman Gilliland Pdf

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 : Ross Aden,Chris A. Kramer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538183397

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Religion Today by Ross Aden,Chris A. Kramer Pdf

Religion Today introduces students to key concepts in religious studies through a compelling problem-solving framework. Each chapter opens with a contemporary case study that helps students engage in current religious issues, explore possible solutions to difficult religious problems today, and learn key themes and concepts in religious studies. To enhance student learning, a free Student Study Guide is available for download from Rowman & Littlefield. The Study Guide features chapter summaries, definition quizzes for students to test themselves on key terms, and possible learning activities.

Author : Robert D. Putnam,David E. Campbell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781416566731

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American Grace by Robert D. Putnam,David E. Campbell Pdf

Draws on three national surveys on religion, as well as research conducted by congregations across the United States, to examine the profound impact it has had on American life and how religious attitudes have changed in recent decades.

Author : Lisa D. Pearce,Claire Chipman Gilliland
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520296428

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Religion in America by Lisa D. Pearce,Claire Chipman Gilliland Pdf

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 : Winthrop Still Hudson
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015053180942

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Religion in America by Winthrop Still Hudson Pdf

Author : Julia Corbett Hemeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317283904

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Religion in America by Julia Corbett Hemeyer Pdf

Religion in America, 7th Edition provides a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the changing religious landscape of the United States. Extensively revised and updated to reflect current events and trends, this new edition continues to engage students in reflection about religious diversity. Julia Corbett-Hemeyer presents the study of religion as a tool for developing appreciation of communities of faith other than one’s own and for understanding the dynamics at work in religion in the United States today.

Author : Rhys H. Williams,Raymond Haberski Jr.,Philip Goff
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479809844

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Civil Religion Today by Rhys H. Williams,Raymond Haberski Jr.,Philip Goff Pdf

"An important concept that scholars have used to help understand the relationship between religion and the American nation and polity has been 'civil religion.' A seminal article by Robert Bellah appeared just over fifty years ago. A multi-disciplinary array of scholars in this volume assess the concept's origins, history, and continued usefulness. In a period of great political polarization, considering whether there is hope for a unifying value and belief system seems more important than ever"--

Author : Ronald F. Inglehart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197547045

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Religion's Sudden Decline by Ronald F. Inglehart Pdf

'Religion's Sudden Decline' provides evidence of a major decline in religion in most of the world, based on surveys of over 100 countries containing 90 percent of the world's population, carried out from 1981 to 2020 - the largest base of empirical evidence ever assembled to analyse mass acceptance or rejection of religion.--

Author : Frank Newport
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781595620620

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God Is Alive and Well by Frank Newport Pdf

Analyzes America's religious beliefs, practices, and prejudices to assess patterns of beliefs as they relate to life status factors, predicting that religion will become increasingly more important in the U.S. in future years.

Author : Frederick Ernest Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:718303872

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Patterns of Faith by Frederick Ernest Johnson Pdf

Author : Charles H. Lippy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X030113806

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Faith in America: Religious issues today by Charles H. Lippy Pdf

Over the last 25 years, there has been much talk of the presumed "decline" in religious participation in America. In addition, from the 1960s on, surveys that mark the "influence" of religion in American life have shown a mixed response. Many suggest that religion is losing influence in the culture as a whole; others indicate that while organized religion may be experiencing challenges, spirituality is on the upswing. At the same time, however, there have been signs that religious life in the U.S. is extraordinarily healthy. But religion in America has changed, to be sure, in a number of ways. And it has changed us and our culture in return. This timely set looks at the major forces that are changing the shape of religion in American life.

Author : John Frederick Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 082032289X

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Religion and the American Nation by John Frederick Wilson Pdf

This lively survey ranges across several centuries of change in the ways historians have thought and written about religion in America. In particular, John F. Wilson is concerned with how historians have perceived religion's relationship to the political organization of our country. He begins by establishing the genesis of religion as a specialized area of American history in the nineteenth century, and then discusses religious history's development through the early 1970s. Along the way he considers topics ranging from the "long shadow" the Puritans have cast over our comprehension of religion in American history to the ascendancy of such institutions as the University of Chicago as systematizing forces in religious scholarship. Wilson then discusses how scholars, since the early 1970s, have sought to ground their accounts of American religious trends and events in ways that either avoid or transcend references to Puritanism. The rise of comparative religious histories, Wilson notes, has been the welcome outcome. Moving into the present, Wilson explores a range of behaviors, if not beliefs, that might be understood as religious aspects of American life, and looks at how the spiritual or religious dimensions of American cultural life have been expressed in gnosticism, the mass media, and consumerism. One commentator, Wilson notes, suggested that there are no longer any religions as such in America today, but only religious "brands." Wilson himself sees America as a place where there is room for Old World traditions and new spiritual initiatives, a modern nation remarkably hospitable to ancient preoccupations.