One nation under God? : religion and American culture
Marjorie B. Garber (Other), Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Other)
A remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today. Peity and popular culture, public space and private, the secular and the sacred all converge in America's religious experience.
324 s.
9780415922234, 9780415922241, 0415922232, 0415922240
185774290
Part 1 Civility; Chapter 1 The Multireligious Public Square, Diana L. Eck; Chapter 2 Civic Religion and the First Amendment, David Lyle Jeffrey; Chapter 3 Jewish Denominationalism Meets the Open Society, Rabbi Irving Greenberg; Chapter 4 The Cloistered Closet, Dorothy A. AustinThe Reverend; Chapter 5 What'S Derrida Got to Do with Jesus?: Rhetoric, Black Religion, and Theory, Michael Eric Dyson; Part 2 Law; Chapter 6 Getting Religion, Janet R. Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini; Chapter 7 Losing Faith in the Secular and the Culture of International Governance, David Kennedy; Chapter 8 Islamic Law and Muslim Women in America, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri; Part 3 Practice; Chapter 9 Yom Hashoah in the Capital Rotunda, Deborah E. Lipstadt; Chapter 10 “Plenty Good Room…” in a Changing Black Church, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes; Chapter 11 Cremation American Style: Consumers' Last Rites, Stephen Prothero; Chapter 12 From Monticello to Graceland: Jefferson and Elvis as American Icons, Robert Kiely; Chapter 13 Practicing Christian Rock, Barbara Claire Freeman; Part 4 Conversion; Chapter 14 Mormonism and Other Narratives of the Living Dead, William R. Handley; Chapter 15 American Heritage, Peter S. Hawkins; Chapter 16 Two-Point Conversion, Marjorie Garber;