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A History of Religion in America
From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
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eBook - ePub
A History of Religion in America
From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
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A History of Religion in America: From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the end of the American Civil War to religion in post 9/11 America. The volume explores major religious groups in the United States and examines the following topics:
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- The aftermath of the American Civil War
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- Immigration's impact on American religion
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- The rise of the social gospel
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- The fundamentalist response
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- Religion in Cold War America
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- The 60's counterculture and the backlash
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- Religion in Post-9/11 America
Chronologically arranged and integrating various religious developments into a coherent historical narrative, this book also contains useful chapter summaries and review questions. Designed for undergraduate religious studies and history students A History of Religion in America provides a substantive and comprehensive introduction to the complexity of religion in American history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The challenges of immigration, growth, and diversity
- 2 Industrialization, urbanization, and the Social Gospel, here and abroad
- 3 Science versus religion: action and reaction
- 4 Religion in America between the World Wars
- 5 Religion in post-World War II America, 1945 to 1960
- 6 Religion in an age of turmoil â the 1960s and 1970s
- 7 An equal and opposite reaction: conservative retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s
- 8 Whither religion in the twenty-first century?
- Index