In the 1950s, 99% of adult Americans said they believed in God. How did this consensus turn into the confrontational debates over religion in the 1960s? James Hudnut-Beumler argues that post-World War II suburban conformity made church-going so much a part of middle-class values and life that religion and culture became virtually synonymous.
In the 1950s, 99% of adult Americans said they believed in God. How did this consensus turn into the confrontational debates over religion in the 1960s? James Hudnut-Beumler argues that post-World War II suburban conformity made church-going so much a part of middle-class values and life that religion and culture became virtually synonymous.
James Hudnut-Beumler is the Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University and dean of the Divinity School. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt in 2000, he was dean of the faculty at Columbia Theological Seminary, a program associate for Lilly Endowment, and director of the undergraduate program in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Dr. Hudnut-Beumler is the author of Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics,1945-1965 (Rutgers, 1994) and Generous Saints: Congregations Rethinking Money and Ethics (Alban, 1999), and is co-author of The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York (NYU, 2005). Most recently he completed an economic history of American Protestantism from 1750 to the present, entitled, In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism (University of North Carolina, 2007).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Life in a Suburban Culture 2. The Return to Religion 3. Critics of the American Dream 4. Critics of the American Way of Religion 5. Among the Ruins of Certainty: Religion in the Sixties Notes Index About the Author
Preface 1. Life in a Suburban Culture 2. The Return to Religion 3. Critics of the American Dream 4. Critics of the American Way of Religion 5. Among the Ruins of Certainty: Religion in the Sixties Notes Index About the Author
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