Religion and American Culture,9780155055322

Religion and American Culture

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ISBN13: 9780155055322
ISBN10: 0155055321
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-17
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE focuses on the relationship of religion to the social and cultural dynamics of American history. Because most survey texts provide only brief coverage of this topic, Marsden's narrative is designed to explore the role of religion in American culture.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(1)
Religious History for Historians
2(1)
Religion as an Organizing Principle
3(1)
Two Meanings of Religion
4(1)
What This Book Is About
5(1)
Protestants on Center Stage
5(1)
The Religious and the Secular
6(3)
Prologue: The Almost-Chosen Nation
9(6)
Christendom and American Origins
15(42)
The Cold War
16(3)
The English Reformation
19(1)
The Religious and the Secular
20(1)
The Puritan Heritage
21(2)
Christians as Outsiders
23(2)
Spiritual Sources of Equality
25(1)
More Radicalism: The English Civil War
26(1)
Tensions in New England
27(1)
The Quakers
28(3)
The Eighteenth Century
31(1)
The Great Awakening
31(5)
The Continuing Awakening
36(2)
Religion and the American Revolution
38(19)
Dissent: An American Tradition
38(1)
A Secular Society
39(1)
The Scientific Age
40(1)
A Moral Age
41(1)
Locke and the Puritans
42(1)
Science and Christianity Agree
43(1)
A Land of Dissenters
43(2)
The Course of Empires
45(1)
An American Bishop
46(1)
Catholicism and Monarchy
46(2)
A Republic of Virtue
48(1)
The New Order for the Ages
49(1)
A Paradoxical Heritage
50(1)
Civil Religion
51(3)
A Secular Constitution
54(3)
The Age of Democratic Revivals
57(48)
America's Revivalist: Charles G. Finney
60(2)
Evangelicalism and American Culture
62(7)
Primitivism
69(3)
Divisions Within the Evangelical Camp
72(2)
The American Paradox
74(3)
Slave Religion
77(3)
Nonevangelical America
80(25)
A Central Theme
80(1)
Native Americans as Outsiders
80(3)
The Catholic Church: Outsiders with an Insider Heritage
83(2)
Protestant Outsiders
85(1)
Common Values
86(1)
Diversity: A Changing America
87(1)
The Literary Renaissance
88(1)
Romanticism and Transcendentalism
88(2)
Sectarian Innovations
90(3)
The Age of the Spirit and Woman's Place
93(2)
New Public Roles
95(2)
Religion and American Politics
97(8)
Protestant and Progressive America: 1860--1917
105(36)
The Golden Age
109(3)
Understanding Secularization
112(3)
Religion and Politics: The Link Continues
115(1)
The Republican Party and the Incorporation of America
116(3)
Hard Work as a Social Program
119(1)
``Acres of Diamonds''
120(2)
An Age of Reform
122(19)
The Middle-Class Protestant Consciousness
122(1)
Women and Reform
123(1)
Missions
124(2)
Moody and the Shaping of the Missionary Ideal
126(1)
``Our Country''
126(2)
The Social Gospel
128(2)
Pragmatic Progressivism
130(1)
A Revolution in Education
131(1)
Revolution in Beliefs
132(2)
The Symbol of Darwinism
134(3)
Higher Criticism of the Bible
137(1)
The Modernist Impulse
138(1)
New Theologies
138(3)
Pluralistic America: 1860--1917
141(36)
The Catholic Experience
142(3)
The ``Americanist'' Controversy
145(3)
The Triumph of Catholic Conservatism
148(1)
Non-Anglo Protestants
149(1)
Eastern Orthodox Churches
150(2)
Judaism in America
152(5)
Christianity of African Americans
157(6)
White Protestant Religious Outsiders and Protesters
163(14)
The Holiness Movement
164(2)
Pentecostalism
166(2)
Premillennialism
168(1)
Mainstream America: Loving It or Leaving It?
169(1)
New Religious Movements: Christian Science and Jehovah's Witnesses
170(3)
Peace Churches
173(2)
A Common Heritage in a Pluralistic Society
175(2)
Traditional Religion and Twentieth-Century American Culture
177(40)
Traditional Protestantism, Cultural Dominance, or Both?
178(1)
Prelude to Conflict: Southern Conservatism
179(3)
The Last Crusade for Protestant Civilization
182(1)
War and Peace
183(2)
Campaigns for Peace
185(3)
Conflict in the Mainstream: Fundamentalists versus Modernists
188(2)
The Postwar Cultural Crisis
190(1)
Darwinism as Symbol
191(2)
Fundamentalism
193(1)
Bryan and the Scopes Trial
194(3)
The Image of Fundamentalist Defeat
197(1)
Catholics and Fundamentalists: The Election of 1928
198(3)
Catholicism: Building an Identity
201(3)
``The Acids of Modernity''
204(13)
Disillusion
208(2)
Pragmatic Secularism: John Dewey
210(2)
The Neo-Orthodox Critique
212(2)
A Secular New Deal
214(3)
Return to Faith and Quest for Consensus: 1941--1963
217(30)
World War II and American Faith
218(4)
The Irony of American History
222(1)
The Post-War Revival
223(2)
Billy Graham: Fundamentalist to Evangelical
225(2)
Pentecostal Healing
227(2)
The Mainstream Widens
229(18)
Jewish Identity and the American Way
229(4)
Catholics Move into the Mainstream
233(4)
Secularism
237(1)
Civil Rights
238(2)
Martin Luther King Jr.
240(3)
Alternatives for Black Power
243(4)
Fragmented America---A Nation in Search of a Soul: 1960s to the Twenty-First Century
247(44)
The Great Divide
247(2)
The Counterculture as a Moral-Religious Quest
249(3)
The Mainline Churches
252(3)
The Catholic Revolution
255(5)
Feminism
260(3)
The Gay and Lesbian Movement
263(1)
New-Age, New (and Old) Religions
263(4)
Habits of the Heart
267(1)
Evangelical Resurgence
268(13)
``Born-Again'' Politics
271(3)
The ``Moral Majority''
274(4)
Commercial Conservatism
278(3)
Culture Wars?
281(2)
Two Poles of a Common Culture
281(1)
The Fields of Conflict
282(1)
The Twenty-first Century: Living with Differences
283(8)
World Religions in America
286(1)
American Religion in the World
287(1)
New Styles of American Spirituality
288(3)
Notes to the Text 291(18)
Suggestions for Further Reading 309(12)
Acknowledgments and Credits 321(4)
Index 325

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