دین در آمریکا [کتاب انگلیسی] | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Part I Preliminary Considerations
Introduction: Religious America: Diversity and Freedom
Responding to Religious Diversity
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
1 Studying and Describing Religion
Why Study Religion?
Studying Religion as a Part of the Humanities
Describing Religion
Popular Religion
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
2 Religion in the Life of the United States
Religion and the Constitution
American Views on Disestablishment and Religious Freedom
By the Numbers: Data on Religious America
Recent Trends
The Rise of the Spiritual but Not Religious
Civil Religion and Beyond
Religion and the Millennial Generation
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
Part II Christianity in the United States: Commonality and Diversity
3 The Waning Influence of Mainline Protestantism and the New Evangelical Majority
Christian Faith and Practice: Overview
Protestant Christianity
Mainline Protestantism
Denominational Distinctiveness
Evangelicals: The New Center in American Protestantism
Women in Protestantism
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
4 Christianity in American Culture: Diverse Themes
Evangelical Christianity in American Culture: Three Cases
Megachurches
The Religious-Political Right
Separatist Fundamental Christians
Holiness Christians
Pentecostal Christianity
The Interfaith Movement
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
5 Catholic Christianity: Sacramental Community
The Distinctiveness of Catholic Christianity
Additional Distinctive Catholic Beliefs
Catholic Worship: Word and Sacrament
Catholic Lifestyles in the United States
The Church as a Social Institution
The Second Vatican Council, 1962–1965
Who Are American Catholics?
Women in the Catholic Church
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
6 Ethnic Diversity in Christianity: Two Examples
Ethnic Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States
African American Christianity
The Changing Face of Ethnic Christianity
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
7 American-Born Christianities
Overview
Latter-day Saints
Christian Scientists
Seventh-day Adventists
Jehovah’s Witnesses
An American Innovation
Community and Reassurance
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
Part III Expanding Diversity
8 Living a Jewish Life in the United States
Who Is a Jew?
A Brief Historical Note
Jews and Christians
Principal Beliefs and Practices of Jewish People
One Judaism, Several Expressions
Jewish Women
Holocaust, Memory, and Religiousness
Anti-Semitism
Jewish Political Conservatism
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
9 Muslims in the United States: A Growing Minority
Islam and Islam in the United States
Muhammad
The Qur’an
Beliefs
The Five Pillars of Islam
Muslims in the United States: Diversity, Identity, and Challenge
Muslim College Students
Muslim Organizations
Muslima: Muslim Women in America
Islam and Black Americans
The Future of Islam in America
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
10 Humanism and the Unitarian Universalists
What Is Humanism?
Humanism in the United States
Humanist Organizations
Atheism and Agnosticism
Unitarian Universalists
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
11 Hindus and Buddhists: Asia Comes to America
Hinduism and Hindus in the United States
American Buddhists and American Buddhism
The Call of the Orient
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
12 Other Religious and Spiritual Movements
Terminology and Classification
Contemporary Native American Spirituality
The New Age Movement
Wicca
Satanism
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
Important Terms
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
13 Conflict and Controversy
Sexual Expression, the Law of the Land, and Communities of Faith
Reproductive Justice
Islam and the Perception of Religiously Motivated Violence
Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing
For Further Reading
Relevant Websites
Notes
Epilogue: Community and Communication
Index