Being Religious, American Style

CHARLES H. LIPPY is Professor of Religion at Clemson University. His previous works include Seasonable Revolutionary: The Mind of Charles Chauncey (1981), Religious Periodicals of the United States (1986), The Christadelphians in North America (1989) and Christianity Comes to the Americas, 1492-1776 (co-authored, 1992). He is the editor of Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion, and co-editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience. His numerous articles have appeared in Journal of Religious Studies, Journal of Church and State, Eighteenth Century Life, and the Journal of Popular Culture.

• Preface What Is Popular Religion? Popular Religiosity in Early Colonial America Popular Religiosity in the Age of Awakening and Revolution The Flourishing of Popular Religiosity in Antebellum America Challenge and Change in Traditional Religion: Nurturing Popular Religiosity in the Later Nineteenth Century Popular Culture and Popular Movements: Advancing Popular Religiosity in the Later Nineteenth Century Into the Twentieth Century: Popular Religiosity in the Age of World Wars After the War: Popular Religiosity and Cultural Currents in the Later Twentieth Century Toward the Twenty-First Century: The Interplay of Popular Culture and Popular Religiosity Select Bibliography Index