Religion in America
By: Julia Corbett Hemeyer.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780205645206
Subjects: United States -- Religion -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Preliminary considerations; title: Introduction: Religious America : diversity and freedom; title: Studying and describing religion; title: Religion in the life of the United States; title: Conflict and controversy; title: Part two: Christianity in the United States : commonality and diversity; title: The waning influence of mainline Protestantism and the new Evangelical majority; title: Christianity in American culture : diverse themes; title: Catholic Christianity : sacramental community; title: Ethnic diversity in Christianity : two examples; title: American-born Christianities; title: Part three: Expanding diversity; title: Living a Jewish life in the United States; title: Muslims in the United States : a growing minority; title: Humanism and the unitarian universalists; title: Hindus and Buddhists : Asia comes to America; title: Other religious and spiritual movements.