| Description |
xi, 991 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. The religions. Christianity : Catholicism and orthodoxy. Roman Catholicism ; Eastern orthodoxy : Protestantism. Christianity. Baptist Church ; Christian Science ; Congregationalism ; Disciples of Christ ; Episcopal Church ; Evangelical denominations ; Jehovah's Witnesses ; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) ; Lutheran Church ; Mennonites ; Methodists ; Presbyterianism ; Quakers ; Seventh-day Adventists ; Unitarian Universalists ; Islam. Historical introduction ; The Islamic faith ; Islam in America ; Judaism. Historical introduction ; The Jewish faith ; Judaism in America ; Eastern faiths. Historical introduction ; Bahá'í faith ; Buddhism ; Hinduism ; Jainism ; Sikhism ; Taoism ; Other religious groups. Historical introduction ; Native American religions ; Nature-based religions ; Atheism, agnosticism, humanism, and other groups -- pt. 2. Issues in American religion. To America's community of faith / Pope Benedict XVI ; The American clergy / Sue E.S. Crawford ; The new convergence / Gregg Easterbrook ; Is America a hospitable land for Islam? / John L. Esposito ; Religion and American politics / Jo-Renee Formicola ; Can "it" happen here? Abraham H. Foxman ; Transforming tolerance : American religion and sexual diversity / Jay Emerson Johnson ; Look to the mountains : religion and the environment / Eric Kampmann ; Contemporary American spiritual movements / Don Lattin ; Can an atheist be a good citizen? / Richard John Neuhaus ; Serenity at last / Harold Rabinowitz ; The spirituality of despair / Ames K. Sweet ; Intelligent faith / Larry Witham ; Eastern religion on American soil / Lili Zhang and Naoko Sasaki -- pt. 3. Faith, facts, and figures : faith and numbers. Religious affiliation : geography ; Religious affiliation : demography ; Maps : religious distributions ; Polls and surveys ; Sources and methodology. |
| Subject |
United States -- Religion.
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| Added Author |
Rabinowitz, Harold, 1948-
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Tobin, Greg.
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| ISBN |
9781402743016 hardcover $35.00 |
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9781402783203 (ebook) |
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1402743017 hardcover |
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