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That Old-Time Religion.("The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith")(Book Review)
The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith, by Alan Wolfe (Free Press, 309 pp., $26)
'We are all evangelicals now": This is the suggestion at the heart of this new book by Alan Wolfe, one of America's most valuable and insightful sociologists. The considerable strength of the book derives from the fact that Wolfe's observations are largely correct, and point to important positive developments in American religion; its weakness lies in the fact that Wolfe seems distinctly unhappy with the data and impressions he has noted down. If ever a book made a strong case for the fact-value distinction, this is surely it.
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- Christianity Without the Cross.("The Transformation of American Religion: How...
- Magazine article from: World and I Thompson, James May 1, 2004 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard December 1, 2003 700+ words
...Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually...fraudulent since Mr. Wolfe is not a person of...They agree with Wolfe that much of American religion has been dissolved...difference is that Wolfe thinks resistance...
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...Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually...sociologist Alan Wolfe calls this kind of...s the future of American religion, a "religion...transformation of American religion Wolfe describes. Americans...
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- Magazine article from: The Nation Massing, Michael October 6, 2003 700+ words
...The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith. By Alan Wolfe. Free Press. 309...book--part of what Wolfe called the Middle Class...The Transformation of American Religion, Wolfe is extending that project...
- The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our...
- Magazine article from: Shofar March 22, 2004 700+ words
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- Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South.
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Wolfe, Margaret Ripley December 22, 1993 700+ words
In the first serious book-length treatment of Henry McNeal Turner, Stephen Ward Angell, associated professor of religious studies at Florida A & M University, focuses on the life of a truly fascinating figure. Reverdy Ransom, one of Turner's colleagues, described him as an "epoch-making man,"
- Does American religion have a center?
- Magazine article from: Church History Porterfield, Amanda June 1, 2002 700+ words
...Undoubtedly, there are many centers to American religion--many topoi around which the wide...historical developments associated with American religion might be seen to coalesce. Among...multiple forms and dimensions of American religion, I do not mean to draw attention...
- Modern American Religion, vol. 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960.
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Silk, Mark January 29, 1997 700+ words
...Martin Marty's projected quartet on American religion in the 20th century offers readers...questions about what we mean by "American religion," and what authors are up against...traditionally seen as a kind of depression in American religion, but which Marty recast as a period...
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