New York : Sterling, c2011.
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- 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.
- This up-to-date work takes the country’s religious pulse, covering all of America’s most significant organizations and denominations. Readers will find an introduction to the basic tenets and structure of 30 faiths, reviewed by a respected authority on each religion, as well as maps, surveys, and other demographic breakdowns from religious figures and scholars with respect to contemporary American society, culture, and politics. Essays discuss broader, more overarching aspects of worship in the US. –from publisher description
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