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| Titre : | A Cultural History of Religion in America |
| Auteurs : | James G. Moseley, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Westport (USA); Londres (GB) : Greenwood Press, 1981 |
| Collection : | Contribution to the Study of Religion, num. 2 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-313-22479-9 |
| Format : | xviii + 183 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | HF (Histoire de l'Eglise/protestantisme: Amérique du Nord) |
| Résumé : |
This important new book surveys the history of religion in American life using a novel, instructive approach. James Moseley explores nine chapters of our nation's religious history, from the Puritans of Old New England up to the new religious movements of the 1970s, applying a different scholarly perspective to each. The result is a clear and thoughtful examination of the crucial issues and events in American religious history. Moseley's book is also an exciting introduction to the techniques of modern cultural history, and the ways these techniques are applied to the study of religion.
Each chapter reveals a new aspect of the topic in question. The Puritans are examined as a cultural anthropologist would study them, to reveal how personal and social experience is integrated in a religious environment. The First and Second Great Awakenings are studied from the perspective of the psychology of religious experience. In exploring Transcendentalism, Moseley demonstrates the contributions literary criticism can make to the study of cultural history. Specific religious developments are studied from many perspectives including: political science, philosophy, ethics, and theological anthropology. Many histories and texts examine the religious experience in America. Some, like Moseley's, are clear, concise, well balanced, and readable. Moseley's Cultural History of Religion in America, however, is also a combination of theory and data and perspectives from the whole range of modern scholarship, which sets it apart from other cultural histories. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Series Foreword - Preface - 1. American puritanism and the history of religions - 2. The Great Awakening and the psychology of religion - 3. The political faith of '76: religion and politics in revolutionary America - 4. Religious freedom, revivalism, and the churches: a sociological approach to the second Great Awakening - 5. Transcendentalism: the religion of nature in the form of literature - 6. Ethos and ethics in the gilded age - 7. The two Niebuhrs : a modern theological renaissance - 8. Modernization and its discontents - 9. Spiritual renewal as cultural revitalization - 10. Epilogue: religion and American culture history - Bibliographic Essay - Index |
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