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1 online resource (559 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; I Introductory; Introduction: Conflict and Change in American Religions; 1. Religion and Power; II Militant Traditionalist Resurgence; 2. The Limits of Modernity; 3. Fundamentalism Revisited; 4. Gender, Education, and the New Christian Right; 5. Rural Ideology and the Future of Rural America; 6. Virus as Metaphor: Religious Responses to AIDS; III CHALLENGE AND RENEWAL IN MAINLINE GROUPS; 7. The Great Protestant Puzzle: Retreat, Renewal, or Reshuffle? |
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8. Liberal Protestantism's Struggle to Recapture the Heartland9. Why Catholics Stay in the Church; 10. The Jews: Schism or Division; IV SPIRITUAL INNOVATION AND THE NEW AGE; 11. Modernization, Secularization, and Mormon Success; 12. On the Margins of the Sacred; 13. Rebottling the Elixir: The Gospel of Prosperity in America's Religioeconomic Corporations; 14. Channels to Elsewhere; 15. The Apocalypse at Jonestown (with Afterward); 16. Religious Movements and Brainwashing Litigation: Evaluating Key Testimony; V RELIGIOUS FERMENT AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF WOMEN |
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17. Women-Church: Catholic Women Produce an Alternative Spirituality18. In Goddess We Trust; 19. Women-Centered Healing Rites: A Study of Alienation and Reintegration; 20. Women's Search for Family and Roots: A Jewish Religious Solution to a Modern Dilemma; VI RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CIVIL RELIGION; 21. Religion and Legitimation in the American Republic; 22. Religion and Power in the American Experience; 23. Citizens and Believers: Always Strangers?; 24. Conservative Christians, Televangelism, and Politics: Taking Stock a Decade after the Founding of the Moral Majority; VII CONCLUSION |
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25. Civil Religion and Recent American Religious FermentBIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cults -- United States.
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Cults
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Aron, Raymond
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Anthony, Dick
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| ISBN |
9781351513074 |
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1351513079 |
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