Product Description: Spirituality has long been regarded as a haven of the female gender?and a componentequally deficient in men?particularly among the white male Protestant population.So, it was with much surprise that the American media greeted the seeminglysudden explosion of the Promise Keepers movement with its emotional stadium ralliesand vivid images of praying men openly recommitting to their faith...read more

Product Description: This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our nation's religious experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Lippy makes a case for the importance of exploring popular religion if one is to understand the dynamics of modern religious life. The first annotated bibliography on the subject, this work features over 550 entries topically arranged...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Magazines have long been a medium that both shapes and reflects the popular mind of Americans. This work provides profiles of some one hundred popular religious magazines currently or formerly published in the United States. Each sketches the history of a magazine and identifies its major focus, often through noting representative articles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Popular religion rarely expresses itself in the artifacts of high culture. In this book, Lippy approaches the study of popular religion by asking how ordinary people have gone about the process of being religious in America. Along the way, he examines popular religious periodicals, newspapers, novels, diaries, devotional materials, hymnals, promotional materials for revivals and camp meetings, religious tracts, as well as vernacular art and architecture, other artifacts, and, especially in the 20th century, radio, film, and television...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Religion in South Carolina

Chronicles three centuries of change in the Americas resulting from the arrival of English Puritans and French and Spanish Catholics

Product Description: This full-length study of the Christadelphians interprets their thought and development - historical, theological, sociological and anthropological. The author seeks to add to our understanding of the role of millennialism in American religious and cultural history.

Product Description: Those familiar with the uneven quality of existing biographies and autobiographies of modern American religious celebrities will be especially grateful for the critical comments and reliable information in this engaging volume. ChoiceDespite its pervasive influence, popular or non-official religion in twentieth-century America has been largely ignored by scholars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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