Religion in America Since 1945 by Patrick Allitt

Religion in America Since 1945



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Religion in America Since 1945 Patrick Allitt
Language: English
Page: 348
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0231121547, 9780231121545
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Review

"Allitt presents the main events, trends, and movements within the religious world as well as the connection between religion and the major issues in national life at the time... As a general survey, this one is accurate and readable enough to interest informed readers at many levels." -- Library Journal

"Allitt has written a very good book about religion in America over the past half century... Allitt reminds his readers just how extraordinary our shared experience has been, and how distressful our diversity." -- America Magazine

"Patrick Allitt of Emory University has written a very impressive book, Religion in America Since 1945: A History. What has been said about America must also be said about religion in America: it is so vast and various that almost anything said about it is amply supported by the evidence. Unlike too many historians, Allitt understands that the subject of America and the subject of religion in America are not two subjects but one." -- First Things

"speaks with authority and verve...thoughful and nuanced...essential reading for all concerned with American religion" -- James Carroll, American Catholic Studies

"Allitt's book is a splendidly accessible narrative...His historical narrative is remarkably comprehensive, urbane and fair-minded." -- David Hempton, Times Literary Supplement

"A lucid, compelling narrative of recent U.S. religious history...Scholars, teachers and students of religion in contemporary America are the fortunate beneficiaries of his noteworthy achievement." -- William Vance Trollinger, Journal of Church and State

"This volume, manageable in size and engagingly written, is accessible to the general as well as the specialist reader and will surely find extensive textbook use." -- Debra Higgs Strickland, Journal of Religion

"Allitt has written a lucid and accessible survey. Allitt also deserves kudos for devoting considerable space not only to popular religious culture but also to theological developments." -- Eugene McCarraher, Journal of American History

"Allitt's work is impressive, providing a learned and engaging narrative of a critical epoch in American religious history." -- Religious Studies Review

"An engaging and easy-to-read text." -- Howell Williams, H-Net Reviews

Review

"A work of masterful and exacting scholarship that reads like a page-turner. Tracing the varities of religious experience in the United States from the dropping of the atom bomb in 1945 to '9/11,' Allitt offers a thoughtful and provocative account of all manner of American belief and religious space-from Billy Graham to Timothy O'Leary, from Eero Saarinen's M.I.T. chapel to Levittown's ticky-tacky suburban "church gymnasiums," from Paul Tillich to Louis Farrakan. Allitt's narrative brilliantly explores how and why the U.S. is both the most religious and the most secular of the industrialized nations in the world. This is a scholarly work of the first order that is a rollicking good read!" -- Mark S. Massa, S.J., co-director of the Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University and author of Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team

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