Religion in America - Brossura

Corbett Hemeyer, Julia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0205645208 ISBN 13: 9780205645206

Casa editrice: Taylor & Francis, 2009

Riassunto

Religion in America gives students and teachers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the changing religious landscape of the United States. Extensively revised and updated, the Sixth Edition continues to engage students in reflection about religious diversity. The author presents the study of religion within the context of the humanities as a tool for developing understanding and appreciation of communities of faith other than one’s own, and for understanding the dynamics at work in religion in the United States today.

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L'autore

Dr. Julia Corbett Hemeyer is Professor of Religious Studies, Emerita, at Ball State University. Since her retirement from classroom teaching in 2004, she is a part time hospital chaplain, and interfaith minister in private practice as a spiritual mentor, meditation teacher, author, and guest speaker. For more information, please visit her website: http://www.ManyPathsInterfaithMinistries.net

Contenuti

Preface  Part One  PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS  Introduction: Religious America: Diversity and Freedom  1  Studying and Describing Religion  Why Study Religion?  Studying Religion as a Part of the Humanities  Describing Religion  Popular Religion  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  2  Religion in the Life of the United States  Disestablishment and the Constitution  By the Numbers: Data on Religious America  Religion after 9-11  Civil Religion and Beyond  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  3  Conflict and Controversy  Sexual Misconduct by the Clergy  Gays and Lesbians in Communities of Faith  Religion and Violence after 9-11  Religious Expression in a Religiously Plural Culture  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  Part Two  CHRISTIANITY IN THE UNITED STATES-COMMONALITY AND DIVERSITY  4  The Waning Influence of Mainline Protestantism and the New Evangelical Majority  Christian Faith and Practice: Overview  Protestant Christianity  Mainline Protestantism  Denominational Distinctiveness  Evangelicals: The New Center in American Protestantism  Women in Protestantism  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  5  Christianity in American Culture: Diverse Themes  Evangelical Christianity in American Culture: Three Cases  Megachurches  The Religious-Political Right  Separatist and Fundamental Christians  Holiness Christians  Pentecostal Christianity  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  6  Catholic Christianity: Sacramental Community  The Distinctiveness of Catholic Christianity  Additional Distinctive Catholic Beliefs  Catholic Worship: Word and Sacrament  Catholic Lifestyles in the United States  The Church as a Social Institution  The Second Vatican Council: 1962-1965  Who Are American Catholics?  Women in the Catholic Church  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  7  Ethnic Diversity in Christianity: Two Examples  Ethnic Christianity  Eastern Orthodox Christianity  Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States  African-American Christianity  The Changing Face of Ethnic Christianity  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  8  American-Born Christianities  Overview  Latter-day Saints  Christian Scientists  Seventh-day Adventists  Jehovah's Witnesses  An American Innovation  Community and Reassurance  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  Part Three  EXPANDING DIVERSITY  9  Living a Jewish Life in the United States  Who Is a Jew?  A Brief Historical Note  Jews and Christians  Principal Beliefs and Practices of Jewish People  One Judaism, Several Expressions  Jewish Women  Holocaust, Memory, and Religiousness  Anti-Semitism  Into the Future  Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing  For Further Reading  Relevant World Wide Web Sites  10  Muslims in the United States: A Growing Minority  Islam, and Islam in the United States  Muhammad  The Qur'an  Beliefs  The Five Pillars of Islam  Muslims in the United States  Muslim College Students  Muslim Organizations  Muslima: Muslim Women in America  Islam and Black Americans  Into the Future  Questions and Activities

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• Editore: Taylor & Francis
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0205645208
• ISBN 13: 9780205645206
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 352