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Philip Goff - Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, Inbunden

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Blackwell Companion to Religion in America

Av Philip Goff

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This authoritative and cutting edge companion brings together a team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity and unique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of the United States. A groundbreaking new volume which represents the first sustained effort to fully explain the development of American religious history and its creation within evolving political and social frameworksSpans a wide range of traditions and movements, from the Baptists and Methodists, to Buddhists and MormonsExplores topics ranging from religion and the media, immigration, and piety, though to politics and social reformConsiders how American religion has influenced and been interpreted in literature and popular cultureProvides insights into the historiography of religion, but presents the subject as a story in motion rather than a snapshot of where the field is at a given moment
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Philip Goff is Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including co-editor, with Paul Harvey, of Themes in Religion and American Culture (2004) and The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945 (2005). For ten years he has been Senior Co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. Dedicated to public teaching, he has also been a scriptwriter and an interviewee on documentaries related to religion in American life for PBS, BBC, and HBO. Goff is a leading interpreter of religion’s role in contemporary American life, and has been named in Who’s Who Among Teachers, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.

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“Overall, the historical synopses, literature reviews, and bibliographic listings contained in the essays of this volume should all prove extremely helpful to serious students of American religious history. Graduate students and scholars alike will find this book to be an accessible and useful entry point into this field of study.”  (Journal of Religious History, 20 January 2014)“For anyone interested in knowing more about the history and present state of scholarship on religion in America, this is an invaluable work, and the place to begin one’s search.”  (Lutheran Quarterly, 2012)

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