Religion American style / edited by Patrick H. McNamara.

Includes bibliographical references.

Religion as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- Religion as autobiography and story / Michael Novak -- Ritual among track athletes / Reid Cole -- Toward a new sociology of religion / Richard K. Fenn -- The new American / George McGovern -- Superstition, ecstasy, and tribal consciousness / Andrew M. Greeley -- The invisible religion / Thomas Luckmann -- Plausibility structures / Peter Berger -- Yoga made plausible: a personal account / Paul N. Carnes, Jr. -- On commitment / Walter Kaufmann -- Civil religion in America / Robert N. Bellah -- The unfinished dream / Billy Graham -- Sports, religion and politics: the renewal of an alliance / Cornish Rogers -- Breakfast with God / Newsweek magazine -- The revival and the revolution / Martin E. Marty -- The religious beliefs of Protestant laity / Jeffrey K. Hadden -- Why conservative churches are growing / Dean M. Kelley -- Who are these people? / Don Wilkerson -- Mormonism and the avoidance of sectarian stagnation / Thomas F. O'Dea -- Prophetic failure and chiliastic identity: the case of Jehovah's Witnesses / Joseph F. Zygmunt -- Coping with cumbersome demands of contemporary living / Geoffrey J. Barratt -- The lord in our cities / Robert Coles -- Religion in the sixties / Daniel Bell -- Toward understanding the Catholic crisis: observations on dissident priests inTexas / Louis Schneider and Louis Zurcher -- Beth, Greg, Diane: what went wrong? / J. Murray Elwood -- The end of American Catholicism? / William C. McCready and Andrew M. Greeley -- The experience of being a Roman Catholic in a time of change / Elaine M. Prevallet -- The American synagogue / Marshall Sklare -- Motivations for attending High Holy Day services / Arnold A. Lasker -- The essence of my commitment / Danny Siegel -- The crisis in American Jewry / Nathan Glazer -- Attitudes toward ecumenism: an empirical investigation / James R. Kelly -- The new triple melting pot: Herberg revisited / Samuel A. Mueller -- Negro preachers take sides / Ronald L. Johnstone -- The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the church in action / Coretta Scott King -- The gospel of Black liberation / Albert B. Cleage, Jr. -- Prejudice and the churches / Rodney Stark and Charles Y. Glock -- The church alive and changing / Joseph C. Hough, Jr. -- Clergy involvement in civil rights / Jeffrey K. Hadden -- Should the church "meddle" in civil affairs? / J. Howard Pew -- The Berrigans / Francine Du Plessix Gray -- America is hard to find / Daniel Berrigan -- Religion and the counter culture: a new religiosity / William C. Shepherd -- The Jesus People movement: a sociological analysis / Jack Balswick -- Let's get one thing straight / the "Right On" staff -- Getting straight with Meher Baba: a study of mysticism, drug rehabilitation and postadolescent role conflict / Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony -- American Indian religion and Christianity: confrontation and dialogue / Carl F. Starkloff -- Saving the earth: a challenge to our religious traditions / Edward B. Fiske -- Toward a feminist theology / Sheila D. Collins.

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