Pluralism Comes of Age : American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century

This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our nation's religious experience.

This book, by distinguished professor Charles H. Lippy, surverys in eleven chapters the course of religious life in America in the twentieth century.

Beginning with the Victorian age and the end of the nineteenth century, Lippy's narrative moves thorugh the shifting power of Protestantism and Amerian Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our country's religious experience. His later chapters include coverage of the Jewish experience, African-American religion, Native American traditions, the ecstatic personal expressions of conversation that mark the evangelical movements, the politics of religion, the proliferation of sects and cults, and the many strands of religious thought in this century.

His final chapter is both a look back at the themes that have occupied us, as well as a look to the future and how these issues seem to be playing out as we move into the new century.

This concise work by distinguished professor Charles Lippy surveys the varied course of religious life in America in the twentieth century. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, the narrative moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our nation's religious experience. Later chapters cover the Jewish experience, African American religion, Native American traditions, the ecstatic personal expressions of conversion that mark the evangelical movement, the politics of religion, the proliferation of sects and cults, and the many strands of religious thought in this century. The book includes an extensive, detailed bibliography. "Beginning with the Victorian age and the end of the nineteenth century, Lippy's narrative moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our country's religious experience. His later chapters include coverage of the Jewish experience, African-American religion, Native American traditions, the ecstatic personal expressions of conversion that mark the evangelical movements, the politics of religion, the proliferation of sects and cults, and the many strands of religious thought in this century."--BOOK JACKET.