Religion in America

Julia Corbett Hemeyer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2005 | 5th edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-13-153914-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Religion in America gives students and teachers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to religion in the United States. The Fifth Edition retains the focus on an academic approach to studying religion, religious diversity and empathic understanding that has characterized previous editions of this text, while incorporating new features

Inhalt

I. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS.

Introduction: Responding to Religious Diversity. 

  1. Studying and Describing Religion. 

  2. Religion in the Life of the United States.

II. CONSENSUS RELIGION. 

  3. Consensus Protestants. 

  4. Catholics in the United States. 

  5. Living a Jewish Life in the United States. 

  6. Humanism and the Unitarian Universalists.

III. ALTERNATIVES TO THE CONSENSUS. 

  7. Christianities That Began in the United States.

  8. Alternative Themes in American Christianity. 

  9. Ethnic Christianity.

10. Muslims in the United States.

11. Hindus and Buddhists in the United States.

12. Other Religious and Spiritual Movements.

13. Religion as an Individual and Cultural Problem.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.5.2005
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 395 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• ISBN-10: 0-13-153914-0 / 0131539140
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-153914-3 / 9780131539143
• Zustand: Neuware