Popular Religion in America

Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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Beskrivning

"Williams provides a thought-provoking overview of popular religion in America that will intrigue specialist and student alike. . . . He has both answered many questions and raised important new ones on the nature and development of American popular religion." --Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"Pioneering. . . . I for one am glad he combined scholarship and chutzpah for this modestly immodest first word." --Catholic Historical Review

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1989-05-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
ISBN:9780252060731

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion and American Studies at Miami University. He is the author of America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century and Houses of God.

Recensioner i media

"I for one am glad he combined scholarship and chutzpah." -- Martin E. Marty. "The book's most immediate contribution is the lucid and rather graceful way that enormously complex notions, such as culture, symbol, modernization, religion, and, of course, popular religion, are unfolded in the American historical context." -- Journal of the Church and State