Religion American style /
edited by Patrick H. McNamara.
- xiv, 408 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Religion as a cultural system / Religion as autobiography and story / Ritual among track athletes / Toward a new sociology of religion / The new American / Superstition, ecstasy, and tribal consciousness / The invisible religion / Plausibility structures / Yoga made plausible: a personal account / On commitment / Civil religion in America / The unfinished dream / Sports, religion and politics: the renewal of an alliance / Breakfast with God / The revival and the revolution / The religious beliefs of Protestant laity / Why conservative churches are growing / Who are these people? / Mormonism and the avoidance of sectarian stagnation / Prophetic failure and chiliastic identity: the case of Jehovah's Witnesses / Coping with cumbersome demands of contemporary living / The lord in our cities / Religion in the sixties / Toward understanding the Catholic crisis: observations on dissident priests inTexas / Beth, Greg, Diane: what went wrong? / The end of American Catholicism? / The experience of being a Roman Catholic in a time of change / The American synagogue / Motivations for attending High Holy Day services / The essence of my commitment / The crisis in American Jewry / Attitudes toward ecumenism: an empirical investigation / The new triple melting pot: Herberg revisited / Negro preachers take sides / The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the church in action / The gospel of Black liberation / Prejudice and the churches / The church alive and changing / Clergy involvement in civil rights / Should the church "meddle" in civil affairs? / The Berrigans / America is hard to find / Religion and the counter culture: a new religiosity / The Jesus People movement: a sociological analysis / Let's get one thing straight / Getting straight with Meher Baba: a study of mysticism, drug rehabilitation and postadolescent role conflict / American Indian religion and Christianity: confrontation and dialogue / Saving the earth: a challenge to our religious traditions / Toward a feminist theology / Clifford Geertz -- Michael Novak -- Reid Cole -- Richard K. Fenn -- George McGovern -- Andrew M. Greeley -- Thomas Luckmann -- Peter Berger -- Paul N. Carnes, Jr. -- Walter Kaufmann -- Robert N. Bellah -- Billy Graham -- Cornish Rogers -- Newsweek magazine -- Martin E. Marty -- Jeffrey K. Hadden -- Dean M. Kelley -- Don Wilkerson -- Thomas F. O'Dea -- Joseph F. Zygmunt -- Geoffrey J. Barratt -- Robert Coles -- Daniel Bell -- Louis Schneider and Louis Zurcher -- J. Murray Elwood -- William C. McCready and Andrew M. Greeley -- Elaine M. Prevallet -- Marshall Sklare -- Arnold A. Lasker -- Danny Siegel -- Nathan Glazer -- James R. Kelly -- Samuel A. Mueller -- Ronald L. Johnstone -- Coretta Scott King -- Albert B. Cleage, Jr. -- Rodney Stark and Charles Y. Glock -- Joseph C. Hough, Jr. -- Jeffrey K. Hadden -- J. Howard Pew -- Francine Du Plessix Gray -- Daniel Berrigan -- William C. Shepherd -- Jack Balswick -- the "Right On" staff -- Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony -- Carl F. Starkloff -- Edward B. Fiske -- Sheila D. Collins.