num_pages: 242
description: With an introduction by J. Gordon Melton (Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Baylor University), God &amp; Apple Pie ( Religious Myths and Visions of America , revised edition), by Christopher Buck, is about an unusual religious the United States of America ("America"). "America" is, at once, nation and notion, country and creed, republic and rhetoric. This book is about Providence and principle--the relationship of the supernatural world to the world's superpower. "America" is not in the Bible, nor in the Qur'an. Yet "America" today pulsates with religious significance. "America" is a word that has taken on mythic proportions. Eleven religions have been selected for their distinctive perspectives on (1) Native American religion (Iroquois); (2) Protestant Christianity (the Puritans); (3) the Christian Right; (4) Roman Catholicism; (5) Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist); (6) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons); (7) Christian Identity (White nationalists); (8) Nation of Islam (Black nationalists); (9) Islam (especially Radical Islamists and Progressive Muslims); (10) Buddhism (Tibetan and Soka Gakkai); and (11) the Baha'i Faith. Over the course of American history, religious myths and visions of America tend to reflect an ever-changing American civil society, whether as a function of its social evolution or as a catalyst of it. The result Religions re-mythologize America . Religions re-envision America . God &amp; Apple Pie invites serious reflection on what it means to be an American, particularly from a religious perspective. 
language: English
title: Religious Myths and Visions of America: God and Apple Pie
publisher: Educator's International Press