Introducing American religion

In: World religions series

Abstract

Selected religious themes and ideas from European, native American, and African life that set the stage for what became religion in the U.S. -- Clash of religious cultures and accommodation -- Accidental diversity -- Diversity in the age of independence -- "Religion in Red, Black, and White": the dimensions of diversity within the African American experience during slavery -- Expanding frontiers; geographic and ideological -- The growth of Roman Catholic immigration and Jewish immigration -- Efforts at unity amid diversity as seen in social reform activities -- Region as a factor in diversity -- How later nineteenth century urbanization and industrialization augmented diversity -- New religious alternatives that emerged in industrializing America -- Retrenchment and reaction after World War I -- Intellectual currents of modernity and beyond -- Challenges to diversity in the 20th century as seen through court cases -- New faces of diversity -- Sex, sexuality, and spirituality