Religion in America
by Hemeyer, Julia CorbettEdition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-05-29
Publisher(s): Taylor and Francis
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Summary
Religion in Americagives students and teachers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the changing religious landscape of the United States. Extensively revised and updated, theSixth Editioncontinues to engage students in reflection about religious diversity. The author presents the study of religion within the context of the humanities as a tool for developing understanding and appreciation of communities of faith other than ones own, and for understanding the dynamics at work in religion in the United States today.
Author Biography
Dr. Julia Corbett Hemeyer is Professor of Religious Studies, Emerita, at Ball State University. Since her retirement from classroom teaching in 2004, she is a part time hospital chaplain, and interfaith minister in private practice as a spiritual mentor, meditation teacher, author, and guest speaker. For more information, please visit her website: http://www.ManyPathsInterfaithMinistries.net
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Preliminary Considerations | |
| Introduction: Religious America: Diversity and Freedom | p. 1 |
| Studying and Describing Religion | p. 7 |
| Why Study Religion? | p. 7 |
| Studying Religion as a Part of the Humanities | p. 8 |
| Describing Religion | p. 12 |
| Popular Religion | p. 14 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 18 |
| For Further Reading | p. 18 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 19 |
| Religion in the Life of the United States | p. 20 |
| Disestablishment and the Constitution | p. 20 |
| By the Numbers: Data on Religious America | p. 23 |
| Religion after 9-11 | p. 26 |
| Civil Religion and Beyond | p. 27 |
| Religion on Campus | p. 32 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 33 |
| For Further Reading | p. 34 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 34 |
| Conflict and Controversy | p. 35 |
| Sexual Misconduct by the Clergy | p. 36 |
| Gays and Lesbians in Communities of Faith | p. 38 |
| Religion and Violence After 9-11 | p. 42 |
| Religious Expression in a Religiously Diverse Culture | p. 50 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 56 |
| For Further Reading | p. 56 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 56 |
| Christianity in the United States-Commonality and Diversity | |
| The Waning Influence of Mainline Protestantism and the New Evangelical Majority | p. 57 |
| Christian Faith and Practice: Overview | p. 57 |
| Protestant Christianity | p. 61 |
| Mainline Protestantism | p. 66 |
| Denominational Distinctiveness | p. 68 |
| Evangelicals: The New Center in American Protestantism | p. 82 |
| Women in Protestantism | p. 88 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 92 |
| For Further Reading | p. 93 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 93 |
| Christianity in American Culture: Diverse Themes | p. 94 |
| Evangelical Christianity in American Culture: Three Cases | p. 95 |
| Megachurches | p. 98 |
| The Religious-Political Right | p. 100 |
| Separatist Fundamental Christians | p. 106 |
| Holiness Christians | p. 109 |
| Pentecostal Christianity | p. 112 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 116 |
| For Further Reading | p. 117 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 117 |
| Catholic Christianity: Sacramental Community | p. 118 |
| The Distinctiveness of Catholic Christianity | p. 120 |
| Additional Distinctive Catholic Beliefs | p. 121 |
| Catholic Worship: Word and Sacrament | p. 123 |
| Catholic Lifestyles in the United States | p. 126 |
| The Church as a Social Institution | p. 128 |
| The Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965 | p. 130 |
| Who Are American Catholics? | p. 131 |
| Women in the Catholic Church | p. 135 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 138 |
| For Further Reading | p. 139 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 139 |
| Ethnic Diversity in Christianity: Two Examples | p. 140 |
| Ethnic Christianity | p. 140 |
| Eastern Orthodox Christianity | p. 142 |
| Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States | p. 143 |
| African American Christianity | p. 151 |
| The Changing Face of Ethnic Christianity | p. 165 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 166 |
| For Further Reading | p. 167 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 167 |
| American-Born Christianities | p. 168 |
| Overview | p. 168 |
| Latter-day Saints | p. 172 |
| Christian Scientists | p. 183 |
| Seventh-day Adventists | p. 185 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | p. 187 |
| An American Innovation | p. 189 |
| Community and Reassurance | p. 190 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 191 |
| For Further Reading | p. 191 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 192 |
| Expanding Diversity | |
| Living a Jewish Life in the United States | p. 193 |
| Who Is a Jew? | p. 193 |
| A Brief Historical Note | p. 195 |
| Jews and Christians | p. 196 |
| Principal Beliefs and Practices of Jewish People | p. 198 |
| One Judaism, Several Expressions | p. 207 |
| Jewish Women | p. 214 |
| Holocaust, Memory, and Religiousness | p. 216 |
| Anti-Semitism | p. 217 |
| Into the Future | p. 219 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 220 |
| For Further Reading | p. 220 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 221 |
| Muslims in the United States: A Growing Minority | p. 222 |
| Islam, and Islam in the United States | p. 222 |
| Muhammad | p. 223 |
| The Qur'an | p. 224 |
| Beliefs | p. 224 |
| The Five Pillars of Islam | p. 226 |
| Muslims in the United States | p. 229 |
| Muslim College Students | p. 232 |
| Muslim Organizations | p. 233 |
| Muslima: Muslim Women in America | p. 234 |
| Islam and Black Americans | p. 235 |
| Into the Future | p. 237 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 238 |
| For Further Reading | p. 238 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 238 |
| Humanism and the Unitarian Universalists | p. 239 |
| What Is Humanism? | p. 239 |
| Humanism in the United States | p. 241 |
| Humanist Organizations | p. 242 |
| Atheism and Agnosticism | p. 244 |
| Unitarian Universalists | p. 247 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 253 |
| For Further Reading | p. 254 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 254 |
| Hindus and Buddhists: Asia Comes to America | p. 255 |
| Hinduism and Hindus in the United States | p. 256 |
| American Buddhists and Buddhism | p. 266 |
| The Call of the Orient | p. 280 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 282 |
| For Further Reading | p. 283 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 283 |
| Other Religious and Spiritual Movements | p. 284 |
| The Religions of the Native Americans | p. 284 |
| The New Age Movement | p. 289 |
| The Self-Help Movement and Twelve-Step Programs | p. 293 |
| Feminist Wicca | p. 296 |
| The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches | p. 301 |
| Religion on the Web | p. 302 |
| Satanism | p. 303 |
| Christian Identity | p. 305 |
| Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | p. 306 |
| For Further Reading | p. 306 |
| Relevant World Wide Web Sites | p. 306 |
| Epilogue: Community and Communication | p. 307 |
| Index | p. 309 |
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