Religion in America: European and American PerspectivesHans Krabbendam, Derek Rubin VU University Press, 2004 - 306 Seiten The essays in this volume range widely and includes topics such as the role of religion in shaping American diversity: the lasting legacy of Puritanism in a multicultural society; the appropriation of religious space and national symbolism; the changing intersections of religion, race, and gender in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; religious paradigms in ethnic autobiographies; religion and consumer culture; the religious imagination of American and European women; and the religious exchange between Europe and the United States as shown in illustrations, hymns, evangelism and contemporary worship practices. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Mainstream or Many Streams? Diversity and Its Limits | 19 |
The Burdens of Religion in the American South Today | 42 |
Urheberrecht | |
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