Synopses & Reviews
This book examines the persistence of religious belief in an America that has become increasingly secular. A series of essays addresses specific aspects of the interaction between the sacred and the secular in modern U.S. history and offers a unique perspective on how the two have transformed each other as well as the nature of American religious culture. The essays cover such diverse topics as religion and popular culture, ethnicity and race, religion and women, religion and medicine, and the endurance of evangelical traditions, while also placing American religion in a larger, historical framework.
Review
...The book offers and analysis of religion and its sociological significance,Q providing Christian students and historians with relevant observations of the socioreligious and secular interaction in modern America.The Christian Librarian
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-186) and index.
About the Author
M. L. BRADBURY is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland.JAMES B. GILBERT is Professor of History at the University of Maryland.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Sacred and Secular in American History
From Covenant to Constitution: The Americanization of Judaism
Black Theology and Historical Necessity
Southern Protestant Clergy and the Disfranchisement of Blacks
Citizens and Believers: Always Strangers?
Women and Christ: The Transformer of Culture
The Chicago Campaign
King Tut and the Scopes Trial
Revive Us Again: Alienation, Hope, and the Resurgence of Fundamentalism, 1930-1950
Evangelical Broadcasting: Its Meaning for Evangelicals
God and Jimmy Carter
Biodivinity: The Encounter of Religion and Medicine
Selected Bibliography
Index