Goff, Philip
The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America
This authoritative and cutting edge companion brings together a team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity and unique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of the United States.
- A groundbreaking new volume which represents the first sustained effort to fully explain the development of American religious history and its creation within evolving political and social frameworks
- Spans a wide range of traditions and movements, from the Baptists and Methodists, to Buddhists and Mormons
- Explores topics ranging from religion and the media, immigration, and piety, though to politics and social reform
- Considers how American religion has influenced and been interpreted in literature and popular culture
- Provides insights into the historiography of religion, but presents the subject as a story in motion rather than a snapshot of where the field is at a given moment
Keywords: American religion and culture, religion and politics, Black Church
- Author(s)
- Goff, Philip
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Blackwell Companions to Religion
- Page amount
- 760 pages
- Category
- Religions
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444324099
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405169363