American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future - Hardcover

Roof, Wade Clark; McKinney, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813512158 ISBN 13: 9780813512150

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney argue that a new voluntarism is slowly eroding the old social and economic boundaries that once defined and separated religious groups and is opening new cleavages along moral and life-style lines. Nowhere has the impact of these changes been more profoundly felt than by the often-overlooked religious communities of the American center, or mainline--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. ""American Mainline Religion"" provides a new ""mapping"" of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. Going beyond the headlines in daily newspapers, Roof and McKinney document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated and public-minded Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism as a religious and cultural force.

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Synopsis

Discusses the changes in religion in the United States since the 1960s and examines the social, cultural, and demographic factors influencing religions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0813512158
• ISBN 13: 9780813512150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240