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• What is the Social Gospel? Part I: Awakening the Church Introduction
• 1. Revivalism and Reform
• 2. Christian Abolitionism
• 3. Christian Socialism
• 4. The New Theology
• 5. An American Prophet Part II: The New Urban America Introduction
• 6. The City
• 7. Justice for Labor
• 8. Movements toward the Kingdom
• 9. Voices from the New South Part III: Neglected Reforms and Reformers Introduction
• 10. The Souls of Black Folk
• 11. The Imperialism of Righteousness
• 12. Christian Women and Politics Part IV: Resources and Strategies for Social Salvation Introduction
• 13. The Rise of the Social Sciences
• 14. Popular Culture and Social Religion
• 15. Socialism as Christian Strategy
• 16. Progressivism as Christian Strategy
• 17. Church Agencies for Social Action Part V: An Ecumenical Movement Introduction
• 18. Cooperation among Protestants
• 19. Catholicism and Social Questions
• 20. American Jews and the Kingdom Part VI: Looking Backward Introduction
• 21. Conservative or Liberal?
• 22. Decline or Revival?
• 23. The Past Is Prologue Part VII: Conclusion The Social Gospel Today Index.
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Ronald C. White, Jr. is Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Religion at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. C. Howard Hopkins is Professor of History Emeritus at Rider College and Director of the John R. Mott Biography Project. He is the author of "The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism.".
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In this definitive collection of essays spanning fifteen years, R. Stephen Warner traces the development of the "new paradigm" interpretation of American religion. Originally formulated in the 1990s in response to prevailing theories of secularization that focused on the waning plausibility of religion in modern societies, the new paradigm reoriented the study of religion to a focus on communities, subcultures, new religious institutions, and the fluidity of modern religious identities. This perspective continues to be one of the most important driving forces in the field and one of the most significant challenges to the idea that religious pluralism inevitably leads to religious decline. A leading sociologist of religion, Warner shows how the new paradigm stresses the role that religion plays as a vehicle for the bonding and expression of communities within the United States-a society founded on the principle of religious disestablishment and characterized by a diverse and mobile population. Chapters examine evangelicals and Pentecostals, gay and lesbian churches, immigrant religious institutions, Hispanic parishes, and churches for the deaf in terms of this framework. Newly written introductory and concluding essays set these groups within the broad context of the developing field. A thoughtfully organized and timely collection, the volume is a valuable classroom resource as well as essential reading for scholars of contemporary religion.
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• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Reassessing Social Christianity: Participants and Purposes
• Chapter 3 When Stead Came to Chicago: Social Christianity and Political Reform
• Chapter 4 Charles Sheldon's In His Steps and the Social Gospel Novel
• Chapter 5 To Reconstruct the World: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Socialism, and Social Change
• Chapter 6 Women and Social Christianity: Vida Scudder's Quest to Create a Cooperative Commonwealth
• Chapter 7 Blacks and Social Christianity: Reverdy Ransom, a Champion of Black Civil Rights
• Chapter 8 Social Christianity, Businessmen, and the Golden Rule: John Wanamaker, John J. Eagan, and Arthur Nash
• Chapter 9 Social Christianity, Businessmen, and the Golden Rule II: Nelson O. Nelson and Samuel M. Jones
• Chapter 10 Evangelicals and Social Christianity: The Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911-1912
• Chapter 11 Conservative Critics of Social Christianity
• Chapter 12 Toward a New Definition of Social Christianity: Advocates, Activities, Principles, and Achievements
• Chapter 13 Appendix: Social Christianity in White Protestant Denominations, 1180-1925.
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In their studies of social Christianity, scholars of American religion have devoted critical attention to a group of theologically liberal pastors, primarily in the Northeast. Gary Scott Smith attempts to paint a more complete picture of the movement. Smith's ambitious and thorough study amply demonstrates how social Christianity-which included blacks, women, Southerners, and Westerners-worked to solve industrial, political, and urban problems; reduce racial discrimination; increase the status of women; curb drunkenness and prostitution; strengthen the family; upgrade public schools; and raise the quality of public health. In his analysis of the available scholarship and case studies of individuals, organizations, and campaigns central to the movement, Smith makes a convincing case that social Christianity was the most widespread, long-lasting, and influential religious social reform movement in American history.
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• A new approach to American religious history
• The Colonial era revisited
• The upstart sects win America, 1776-1850
• The coming of the Catholics, 1850-1926
• Methodists transformed, Baptists triumphant
• Why unification efforts fail
• Why "mainline" denominations decline.

In The Churching of America, 1776-2005 Roger Finke and Rodney Stark once again revolutionize the way we think about religion in America. Extending the argument that the nation's religious environment acts as a free market economy, this extensively revised and expanded edition offers new research, statistics, and stories that document increased participation in religious groups in the twenty-first century. Adding to the thorough coverage of ""mainline"" religious groups, new chapters chart the remarkable development and growth of African American churches from the early nineteenth century forward. Finke and Stark show how, like other ""upstart sects, "" these churches openly competed for adherents and demonstrate how American norms of religious freedom allowed African American churches to construct organizational havens with little outside intervention. This edition also includes new sections on the ethnic religious communities of recent immigrants - stories that echo those told of ethnic religious enclaves in the nineteenth century. Bringing together timely new information and evidence, this provocative book insists, more than ever, on a major reevaluation of established ideas about American religious institutions. Written with lively prose, it will stir debate within church and academic communities, as well as among laypersons interested in the history of religion in America.
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• I. CLASSIC SOCIOLOGICAL DEFINITIONS OF RELIGION.
• 1. Introduction, Wade Clark Roof.
• 2. Introduction to Classical Sociological Definitions of Religion, Patricia Chang.
• 3. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Emile Durkheim.
• 4. From Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law, Karl Marx.
• 5. Religion as a Cultural System, Clifford Geertz.
• 6. The Sacred Canopy, Peter Berger. II. BELIEF AND RITUAL.
• 7. Introduction to Belief and Ritual, Susanne Monahan.
• 8. Passover's Hustle and Bustle, Patrice Gaines.
• 9. Salvation on Sand Mountain, Dennis Covington.
• 10. Civil Religion in America, Robert Bellah.
• 11. Liminality and Communitas, Victor Turner. III. RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE.
• 12. Introduction to Religious Experience, William MacDonald.
• 13. Angels, Kenneth Woodward.
• 14. The Reality of the Unseen, William James.
• 15. Religious Experience, Wayne Proudfoot.
• 16. Ways of Seeing Ecstasy in Modern Society, David Yamane and Megan Polzer. IV. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND RELIGION.
• 17. Introduction to Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, Michael Emerson.
• 18. Becoming American by Becoming Hindu, Prema Kurien.
• 19. Cultural Conflicts and Identity: Second-Generation Hispanic Catholics in the United States, Wade Clark Roof and Christel Manning.
• 20. Sacrifice of Praise: Emotion and Collective Participation in an African-American Worship Service, Timothy Nelson.
• 21. Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, Min Zhou and Carl L. Buckston.
• 22. Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict?, Milton Yinger. V. GENDER AND RELIGION.
• 23. Introduction to Gender and Religion, Lori Beaman.
• 24. The Spiritual Revolution: Women's Liberation as Theological Re-Education, Mary Daly.
• 25. The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity, Wendy Griffin.
• 26. The Social Construction of a New Leadership Role: Catholic Women Pastors, Ruth Wallace.
• 27. Male God Imagery and Female Submission: Lessons from a Southern Baptist Ladies' Bible Class, Carolyn Pevey, Christine Williams, and Christopher Ellison. VI. SOCIAL CLASS AND RELIGION.
• 28. Introduction to Social Class and Religion, William Mirola.
• 29. Millhands and Preachers, Liston Pope.
• 30. Protestantism and the American Labor Movement: The Christian Spirit in the Gilded Age, Herbert Gutman.
• 31. Cultures of Solidarity, Rick Fantasia.
• 32. The Catholic Church in the Nicaraguan Revolution: A Gramscian Analysis, Dana Sawchuck. VII. SEXUAL IDENTITY AND RELIGION.
• 33. Introduction to Sexual Identity and Religion, William Mirola.
• 34. Keeping the Faith, Mubarik Dahir, Chuck Colbert, and Allen Flippen.
• 35. Culture Wars: The Challenge of Homosexuality, James D. Hunter.
• 36. Dare to Differ: Gay and Lesbian Catholics' Assessments of Official Catholic Positions on Sexuality, Andrew K.T. Yip .
• 37. Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical, Scott Thumma. VIII. THE SECULARIZATION DEBATE.
• 38. Introduction to the Secularization Debate, Susanne Monahan.
• 39. Secularization and Pluralism, Peter Berger.
• 40. Secularization and Its Discontents, Bryan Wilson.
• 41. An Unsecular America, Roger Finke. IX. RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AUTHORITY.
• 42. Introduction to Religious Organizations, Institutions and Authority, Susanne C. Monahan.
• 43. AME Zion Megachurch Leaves Denomination, Christian Century.
• 44. Priest and Nun Barred from Ministry to Gays, Christian Century.
• 45. Domination and Stratification, Max Weber. 46.The Chuching of America: Why "Mainline" Denominations Decline, Roger Finke and Rodney Stark.
• 47. Authority and Controversial Policy: The Churches and Civil Rights, James R. Wood.
• 48. Some Futures for Religious Leadership, Jackson Carroll. X. ALTERNATIVE RELIGIONS.
• 49. Introduction to Alternative Religions, Wendy W. Young.
• 50. An Army Controversy: Should Witches Be Welcome? Flap Over Wiccans Tests Military's Religious Tolerance, Hanna Rosin.
• 51. Modern Alternative Religions in the West, J. Gordon Melton.
• 52. The Unification Church, Eileen Barker.
• 53. The Church of Scientology: Lightning Rod for Cultural Boundary Conflicts, Mary Farrell Bednarowski.
• 54. Apocalypse at Waco, James Tabor. XI. MEDIA AND RELIGION.
• 55. Introduction to Media and Religion, Eric Gormly.
• 56. The Source of the Problem?, Stewart Hoover, S. Venturelli and D. Wagner.
• 57. Televangelism: Redressive Ritual within a Larger Social Drama, Bobby C. Alexander.
• 58. Television Drama as Sacred Text, Quentin J. Schulze. XII. POLITICS AND RELIGION.
• 59. Introduction to Politics and Religion, Richard Wood.
• 60. Will It Be Coffee, Tea, or He? Religion Was Once a Conviction. Now It Is a Taste, Charles Krauthammer.
• 61. Catholicism in the United States: From Private to Public Denomination, Jose Casanova.
• 62. The Political Mobilization of Evangelical Protestants, Kenneth Wald.
• 63. The Religious Roots of Rebellion, Phillip Berryman. XIII. SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
• 64. Introduction to Science and Religion, Eric Gormly and William MacDonald.
• 65. "How the Heavens Go, " Kenneth Woodward.
• 66. Essays on Religion, George Simmel.
• 67. First Principles, Herbert Spencer.
• 68. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan.
• 69. Is the Universe Absurd?, Paul Davies. XIV. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND RELIGION.
• 70. Introduction to Social Movements and Religion, William Mirola.
• 71. I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 72. When Will Revolutionary Movements Use Religion?, Leland Robinson.
• 73. Correcting a Curious Neglect, or Bringing Religion Back In, Christian Smith.
• 74. Church Culture as a Strategy of Action in the Black Community, Mary Patillo-McCoy.
• 75. Pastoral Mobilization and Contention: The Religious Foundations of the Solidarity Movement in Poland, Maryjane Osa.
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For undergraduate/graduate courses in the Sociology of Religion in departments of Sociology; and for courses such as Religious Perspectives on Social Issues in departments of Theology. Ideal as either a stand-alone reader or supplement, this collection of articles explores the relationship between the structure and culture of religion and various aspects of social life in the United States. Based on both classic and contemporary research in the sociology of religion, it highlights a variety of research methods and theoretical approaches in exploring the ways in which religious values, beliefs and practices shape the world outside of church, synagogue, or mosque walls while simultaneously being shaped by the non-religious forces operating in that world.
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• The Black megachurch phenomenon : influences, challenges, and responses
• Church culture in real time : worship as an educational tool
• Church socialization processes : each one, teach some!
• Empowerment and liberation theologies : the truth will make you free
• Progams to rightly divide : Black megachurch profiles
• Black megachurches and the future : continuing to create culture.

This book identifies how church cultural components are created, developed, and used to educate and empower adherents, and whether and how these tools are associated with the historic Black Church. The book is particularly interested in how large Black congregations - megachurches - use rituals found in worship, theology, racial beliefs, programmatic efforts, and other tools from their cultural repertoire to instruct congregants to model success in word and deed. The book's findings illustrate that Black megachurches strive to model success on various fronts by tapping into effective historic Black Church tools and creating cultural kits that foster excitement, expectation, and entitlement.
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This book attempts to articulate the nature of a secular society, describe its benefits, and suggests the conditions under which such a society could emerge. To become secular, argues Fenn, is to open oneself and one's society to a wide range of possibilities, some interesting and exciting, some burdensome and dreadful. While some sociologists have argued that a "Civil Religion" is necessary to hold together our newly "religionless" society, Fenn urges that there is nothing to fear-and everything to gain-from living in a society that is not bound together by sacred memories and beliefs, or by sacred institutions and practices.
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This book attempts to articulate the nature of a secular society, describe its benefits, and suggests the conditions under which such a society could emerge. To become secular, argues Fenn, is to open oneself and one's society to a wide range of possibilities, some interesting and exciting, some burdensome and dreadful. While some sociologists have argued that a "Civil Religion" is necessary to hold together our newly "religionless" society, Fenn urges that there is nothing to fear-and everything to gain-from living in a society that is not bound together by sacred memories and beliefs, or by sacred institutions and practices.
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Based on extensive primary research and grounded in a historical and theoretical framework, Religion and Personal Autonomy analyzes the role of religion in contemporary American society. The book makes a significant contribution to the current debate among American--and some non-American--sociologists of religion concerning secularization, the contemporary cultural role of 'mainline' religion for individuals, and the relevance of regional differences in religious identity and change. In this thought-provoking book, the author suggests that while the churches have heretofore reflected local social relationships and a traditional family morality, recent social revolutions have accelerated major changes in this church-culture relationship most evident in the increased emphasis on personal autonomy. In effect, Hammond argues, churches have lost the custodianship of American core values.
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