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Faith in America: changes, challenges, new directions
Publisher
Praeger
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
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v. 1. Organized religion today
Growth and decline in the mainline / C. Kirk Hadaway and Penny Long Marler
Post-Vatican II Catholicism: a new Church for a new day? / Chester Gillis
Roman Catholicism after the sex scandals / Paul Lakeland
The spirit of the law: spirituality in American Judaism / Sarah Imhoff
Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism: the changing face of Evangelicalism in America / David G. Roebuck
Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism in America: the impact of the world's religions / Khyati Y. Joshi
Porous borders: Mexican immigration and American civic culture / Robert Lint Sagarena
The shifting role of the Latter-day Saints as the quintessential American religion / Ethan Yorgason
The continuing influence of region on American religious life / Randi Jones Walker
The shape of things to come: megachurches, emerging churches, and other new religious structures / Scott L. Thumma
In search of the Promised Land: post-civil rights trends in African American religion / Stephen C. Finley and Torin D. Alexander
New and alternative American religions: changes, issues and trends / Sean McCloud
v. 2. Religious issues today
Public ceremonies: ritualizing civic, media, and social life / Lee Gilmore
American civic religion: myth, reality and challenges / Charles H. Lippy
A touristic spirit in places of religion / Thomas S. Bremer
Religion and politics: the impact of the Religious Right/ Julie Ingersoll
From Southern strategy to national strategy: how the Christian Right is transforming church-state relations / Anthony E. Cook / Queering the mainstream, mainstreaming the queer: LGBT people and religion in the United States / Melissa M. Wilcox
Gender matters: how second-wave feminism shaped and reshaped American religion / Barbara Brown Zikmund
A baby or fetus? The abortion debate in America / Deborah L. Vess
Christian attitudes to reproductive technologies / Aline H. Kalbian
This mortal coil: mortality, morality and stem cells / David H. Smith
Reading foodways as faithways in contemporary America / Corrie E. Norman
Sacred bodies: religion, illness and healing / Jonathan R. Baer
v. 3. Personal spirituality today
Contemporary worship: trends and patterns in Christian America / David R. Bains
A visionary people: religion and the visual arts in America / Kelly J. Baker
Personal spirituality / Merrill M. Hawkins, Jr.
Out of the mouths of babes: religion and spirituality among children and teens / Todd M. Brenneman
Living fiction: American spirituality and best-selling novels / Amy Johnson Frykholm
The footprints of film: after images of religion in American space and time / S. Brent Plate
The internet and American religious life / Douglas E. Cowan
Workplace spirituality / Lake Lambert
Nature, religion and environmentalism in North America / Bron R. Taylor and Gavin Van Horn
Religion in a world of terror / Darryl V. Caterine.
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