Preface Introduction The Sacred and Secular in American History From Covenant to Constitution: The Americanization of Judaism Black Theology and Historical Necessity Southern Protestant Clergy and the Disfranchisement of Blacks Citizens and Believers: Always Strangers? Women and Christ: The Transformer of Culture The Chicago Campaign King Tut and the Scopes Trial Revive Us Again: Alienation, Hope, and the Resurgence of Fundamentalism, 1930-1950 Evangelical Broadcasting: Its Meaning for Evangelicals God and Jimmy Carter Biodivinity: The Encounter of Religion and Medicine Selected Bibliography Index
M. L. BRADBURY is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland.
JAMES B. GILBERT is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He has written A Cycle of Outrage, Another Chance, and Writers and Partisans.
.,."The book offers and analysis of religion and its sociological
significance, Q providing Christian students and historians with
relevant observations of the socioreligious and secular interaction
in modern America."-The Christian Librarian
?...The book offers and analysis of religion and its sociological
significance, Q providing Christian students and historians with
relevant observations of the socioreligious and secular interaction
in modern America.?-The Christian Librarian
?In May 1987, the University of Maryland hosted a conference on
religion and modern American Society. The speakers focused on the
interaction between the sacred and the secular; their revised
conference papers form the contents of this volume. The theoretical
framework is set forth by historian Martin Marty, who delineates
several sociological/historical models of inquiry, and by
theologian Harvey Cox, who maintains that public policy questions
must include "religious" issues if they hope to remain meaningful.
The more narrowly focused essays by Hasia Diner on the
Americanization of Judaism, M.L. Bradbury on "Biodivinity" (the
interaction between religion and medicine), and Leo Ribuffo on the
faith of President Jimmy Carter are all exceptionally thoughtful.
Other chapters include such themes as black theology, women and
Christ, fundamentalism, Dwight L. Moody, the Scopes trial, and the
rise of evangelical broadcasting. All the essays have a good deal
to say, and the best ones are genuinely first-rate. Consequently,
this compilation is a welcome addition to the growing literature on
the persistence of religious themes in modern America. Graduate and
undergraduate audience.?-Choice
..."The book offers and analysis of religion and its sociological
significance, Q providing Christian students and historians with
relevant observations of the socioreligious and secular interaction
in modern America."-The Christian Librarian
"In May 1987, the University of Maryland hosted a conference on
religion and modern American Society. The speakers focused on the
interaction between the sacred and the secular; their revised
conference papers form the contents of this volume. The theoretical
framework is set forth by historian Martin Marty, who delineates
several sociological/historical models of inquiry, and by
theologian Harvey Cox, who maintains that public policy questions
must include "religious" issues if they hope to remain meaningful.
The more narrowly focused essays by Hasia Diner on the
Americanization of Judaism, M.L. Bradbury on "Biodivinity" (the
interaction between religion and medicine), and Leo Ribuffo on the
faith of President Jimmy Carter are all exceptionally thoughtful.
Other chapters include such themes as black theology, women and
Christ, fundamentalism, Dwight L. Moody, the Scopes trial, and the
rise of evangelical broadcasting. All the essays have a good deal
to say, and the best ones are genuinely first-rate. Consequently,
this compilation is a welcome addition to the growing literature on
the persistence of religious themes in modern America. Graduate and
undergraduate audience."-Choice
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