One Nation Under God?: Religion and American Culture

by Garber,Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9780415922234
• ISBN10: 0415922232
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Is America a religious nation? A nation of many religions? Is there an American religion?One Nation Under God?is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today. Drawing on the extraordinary diversity of America's cultures, this gathering of distinguished scholars considers such subjects as the nature of public religious expression, African American civic virtue, the relation between law and religion, religion in secular society, the Holocaust Memorial, the cloistered closet, cults of death, and the sacralization of Elvis. Piety and popular culture, public space and private, the secular and the sacred all converge in America's religious experience. Contributors: Diana L. Eck, David L. Jeffrey, Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Rev. Dorothy A. Austin, Michael Eric Dyson, Janet Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini, David Kennedy, Azizah al-Hibri, Beatrice Hanssen, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Stephen Prothero, Robert Kiely, Barbara Claire Freeman, William Handley, Peter S.Hawkins, Marjorie Garber.

Table of Contents

Forword	vii
Cornel West
Introduction	ix
CIVILITY
The Multireligious Public Square	3	(18)
Diana L. Eck
Civic Religion and the First Amendment	21	(11)
David Lyle Jeffrey
Jewish Denominationalism Meets the Open Society	32	(28)
Rabbi Irving Greenberg
The Cloistered Closet	60	(16)
Dorothy A. Austin
What's Derrida Got to do With Jesus?	76	(25)
Michael Eric Dyson
LAW
Getting Religion	101	(14)
Janet R. Jakobsen
Ann Pellegrini
Losing Faith in the Secular and the Culture of International Governance	115	(13)
David Kennedy
Islamic Law and Muslim Women in America	128	(17)
Azizah Y. al-Hibri
PRACTICE
Yom Hashoah in the Capital Rotunda	145	(16)
Deborah E. Lipstadt
``Plenty Good Room...'' In A Changing Black Church	161	(23)
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Cremation American Style	184	(24)
Stephen Prothero
From Monticello to Graceland	208	(13)
Robert Kiely
Practicing Christian Rock	221	(14)
Barbara Claire Freeman
CONVERSION
Mormonism and Other Narratives of the Living Dead	235	(23)
William R. Handley
American Heritage	258	(22)
Peter S. Hawkins
Two-Point Conversion	280	(32)
Marjorie Garber
Contributors' Notes	312	(4)
Index	316