Joseph B. Tamney is Professor of Sociology at Ball State University. He is the author of Religious Switching: A Study of Religious Mobility in Singapore, and coeditor of The Political Role of Religion in the U. S.

"The author links together many important current developments by relating them as outcroppings of a set of fundamental processes. Taken altogether, it is a powerful antidote to the secular, desacralizing assumptions of so many mainline social scientists who do not deal directly with religion." — Anson Shupe, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne

• Tables Preface Introduction Modernization and the Resilience of Christianity Part I Christianity and Socialism Chapter One Catholicism and the Solidarity Movement in Poland Chapter Two Catholicism and the Liberation Movement in Latin America Part II Christianity and the Counterculture Chapter Three What Is the Counterculture? Chapter Four Christian Accommodation of the Counterculture Chapter Five The Popularity of the Christian Right Conclusion The Resilience of Christianity in the Modern World Notes References Index