Getting religion
Subtitle: faith, culture, and politics, from the age of Eisenhower to the era of Obama
By: Kenneth L. Woodward
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Convergent Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9781101907399
Subjects: Church history
Description: "Blends memoir (especially of the postwar era) with ... reporting and ... historical analysis to tell the story of how American religion, culture, and politics influenced each other in the second half of the twentieth century"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-435) and index.
Table of contents: title: Embedded religion; title: A fusion of faith, culture, and politics; title: Mediating religion; title: When the secular was sacred; title: Entrepreneurial religion; title: Movement religion; title: Religion and revolution; title: Women's liberation and the feminization of religion; title: Experiential religion; title: Alternatives to religion; title: Sacred families; title: Piety and politics : the Republicans and the religious right; title: Religion as politics : the Democrats.