| Description |
xxiv, 433 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The Daedalus library ;
[v. 12]
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| Contents |
Introduction : How is America religious? / William G. McLoughlin -- General evaluations: Civil religion in America / Robert N. Bellah -- The Churches and the body politic / Franklin H. Littell -- Is there a third force in Christendom? / William G. McLoughlin -- Religion and the churches in contemporary America / Bryan Wilson -- America's institutions of faith / Edwin S. Gaustad -- Contemporary issues : Social and intellectual sources of contemporary Protestant theology / Langdon Gilkey -- The Spirit's holy errand : the search for a spiritual style in secular America / Martin E. Marty -- The Crisis of the contemporary religious consciousness / Thomas F. O'dea -- On the self-exposure of faith to the modern-secular world : philosophical reflections in the light of Jewish experience / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Churches and families / Donald Meyer -- American religion and the cure of souls / William A. Clebsch -- Pluralism and its problems -- Religious pluralism and the Supreme Court / Wilber G. Katz and Harold P. Southerland -- Secular society? A Jewish perspective / Milton Himmelfarb -- Alteratives within contemporary American Judaism / Joseph L. Blau -- Catholicism in America / Sister Marie Augusta Neal -- Predictions and reorientations : The Quest for social relevance / Daniel Callahan -- The "New breed" in American Churches : sources of social activism in American religion / Harvey G. Cox -- Christianity : renewed or slowly abandoned? / Michael Novak. |
| Note |
Papers, by contributors chosen by the editors, based on preparatory conferences held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
United States -- Religion -- 1945-
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| Added Author |
Bellah, Robert N. (Robert Neelly), 1927-2013, author.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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