The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America

by Goff, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781405169363
• ISBN10: 1405169362
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This authoritative and cutting edge Companion brings together a team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity and unique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of the United States.A groundbreaking new volume which represents the first sustained effort to fully explain the development of American religious history and its creation within evolving political and social frameworks Spans a wide range of traditions and movements, from the Baptists and Methodists, to Buddhists and Mormons Explores topics ranging from religion and the media, immigration, and piety, though to politics and social reform Considers how American religion has influenced and been interpreted in literature and popular culture Provides insights into the historiography of religion, but presents the subject as a story in motion rather than a snapshot of where the field is at a given moment

Author Biography

Philip Goff, The editor is Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including co-editor, with Paul Harvey, of Themes in Religion and American Culture (2004) and The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945 (2005). For ten years he has been Senior Co-editor of Religion and American Culture; A Journal of Interpretation. Dedicated to public teaching, he has also been a scriptwriter and an interviewee on documentaries related to religion in American life for PBS, BBC, and HBO. Goff is a leading interpreter of religion's role in contemporary American life, and has been named in Who's Who Among Teachers, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Interpreting American Religion	p. 1
Surveying Religion in America	p. 3
Religion in American Society and Culture	p. 15
The American Revolution	p. 17
Borderlands	p. 29
Church and State	p. 42
Civil Religion	p. 57
Class and Labor	p. 71
Denominations	p. 90
Economics	p. 105
Family	p. 117
Film	p. 130
Gender	p. 147
Health	p. 163
Sensory Cultures: Material and Visual Religion Reconsidered	p. 177
Media	p. 206
Millennialism	p. 215
Missions	p. 228
Piety, Practice, and Ritual	p. 242
Popular Culture	p. 254
Race and Ethnicity	p. 276
Regions	p. 291
Revivals	p. 306
Science	p. 321
Social Reform	p. 338
Theology and Belief	p. 353
Women	p. 376
Traditions and Movements	p. 395
American Indians	p. 395
Anabaptists	p. 417
Baptists	p. 429
The Black Church	p. 446
Buddhism	p. 468
Catholicism to 1945	p. 478
Catholicism Since 1945	p. 491
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	p. 508
Eastern Orthodox Christianity	p. 527
Evangelicalism	p. 540
Hinduism	p. 559
Holiness and Pentecostalism	p. 569
Islam	p. 587
Judaism	p. 599
Lutherans	p. 614
New and Homegrown Religions	p. 636
Protestant Liberalism	p. 649
Reformed Tradition	p. 669
Wesleyan Tradition	p. 684
Index	p. 699
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