In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
- ISBN-10
- 0887388000
- ISBN-13
- 9780887388002
- Series
- In Gods We Trust
- Category
- Social Science / Sociology of Religion
- Pages
- 544
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- Authors
- Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony
Description
Much has changed since publication of the first edition of this established text in the sociology of religion. Revised and expanded, this edition emphasizes new patterns of religious change and conflict emerging in the United States in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Leading scholars describe and analyze developments in five main areas: The fundamentalist and evangelical revival; challenge and renewal in mainline churches; spiritual innovation and the so-called New Age; women's movements and issues and their impact; and politics and civil religion. Chapters include an examination of religious movements' responses to AIDS; Christian schools; quasi-religions; healing rites and goddess worship; recruitment of women to charismatic and Hassidic groups,; televangelists and the Christian Right; racist rural populism; contemporary Mormonism and its growth; cults and brainwashing; Jonestown; dissidence in the Catholic church; and trance-channeling, among other topics.
A new introductory chapter by the editors establishes an integrating framework in terms of three themes: increasing conflict and controversy associated with American religion; increasing focus on various forms of power in American religion; and challenges to models of secularization and modernization inherent in religious revival, innovation, and politicization. A concluding chapter by the editors looks at new trends and assesses their possible impact in coming years. Like its predecessor, this outstanding collection is a significant contribution to the literature as well as a valuable resource for the classroom.
Thomas Robbins received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina. He has taught at or held research appointments at numerous universities. His publications include Cults, Converts, and Charisma, and Church-State Relations.
Dick Anthony is completing a Ph.D. in psychology and religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has served on the faculty of the Psychiatry department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has published numerous articles and co-authored a book, Spiritual Choices.
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