num_pages: 144
description: Covering Protestant, Hindu, Jewish, New Age, Mormon, Buddhist, Roman Catholic, and many other faiths, Religion in Twentieth Century America is a dynamic look at religion in America through two World Wars, vast industrialization, the civil rights movement, and massive immigration. Included arecrucial moments, such * The appointment of Louis Brandeis, a Jew, to the U.S. Supreme Court* The contentious court trial of John T. Scopes, which dramatized the debate over Darwinism* The extraordinary rise of evangelist Billy Graham at mid-century* The Presbyterian church's decision to ordain women*The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.*The federal government's decision to attack the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.With a chronology, index, and suggestions for further reading following, these momentous events and others are tied together in an absorbing narrative in Religion in Twentieth Century America , providing an illuminating guide to the complex issues of 21st-century religion.
language: English
title: Religion in Twentieth Century America
titlecomplete: Religion in Twentieth Century America (Religion in American Life)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Oxford University Press