Introducing American religions
By: Charles Lippy.
Series: World religions series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415448581; 9780415448598
Subjects: United States -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Selected religious themes and ideas from European, native American, and African life that set the stage for what became religion in the U.S.; title: Clash of religious cultures and accommodation; title: Accidental diversity; title: Diversity in the age of independence; title: "Religion in Red, Black, and White": the dimensions of diversity within the African American experience during slavery; title: Expanding frontiers; geographic and ideological; title: The growth of Roman Catholic immigration and Jewish immigration; title: Efforts at unity amid diversity as seen in social reform activities; title: Region as a factor in diversity; title: How later nineteenth century urbanization and industrialization augmented diversity; title: New religious alternatives that emerged in industrializing America; title: Retrenchment and reaction after World War I; title: Intellectual currents of modernity and beyond; title: Challenges to diversity in the 20th century as seen through court cases; title: New faces of diversity; title: Sex, sexuality, and spirituality.