Leo Calvin Rosten

Religions of America

Ferment and Faith in an Age of Crisis: A New Guide and Almanac (Revised)

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Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating new book reflects the results of the turmoil and change in the religions of America since Leo Rosten first wrote about them. The first section consists of nineteen articles by distinguished men, each one a recognized authority on the creed for which he speaks, setting forth the clear and candid stories of our own faiths and those of our neighbors. All religions are covered, from the major established groups to the "charismatic" cults. There are also chapters about the agnostic, the non-churchgoer and what he believes, and the scientist. A multitude of questions are raised and answered, such as: What percent of ministers profess they no longer believe in God? In which leading church can homosexuals be married? How many priests condone birth control devices? Abortions? Which faiths feel what way about intermarriage? Divorce? Have churches that participated in social activism in the 1960s gained or lost in their membership and their finances? Have the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches significantly changed their 400-year-old schism? Part Two is the Almanac, a massive compendium that is more complete and far-ranging than any other existing one, with the statistics, public opinion polls, basic documents, sociological resumes and psychological analyses of the role, conflicts, influences and trends that characterize religion in the United States today. These basic authoritative facts and figures are accompanied by the author's own essays and comments on material that is rarely subjected to critical examination. There is also a Glossary of religious terminology. Those familiar with Leo Rosten's "A Guide to the Religions of America" (1955) and his "Religions inAmerica" (1963) need not be told of the extraordinary reception both volumes received from the reviewers and the public. They were acclaimed by theologians of all faiths. Each book sold hundreds of thousands of copies. But this new "Religions of America" renders those two volumes

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone Books
• Seitenzahl: 674
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 1975
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 936g
• ISBN-13: 9780671219710
• ISBN-10: 0671219715
• Artikelnr.: 22092799

Autorenporträt

Leo Calvin Rosten was a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
EDITOR'S PREFACE
By Leo Rosten
PART ONE/RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND CREDOS
-- in question-and-answer form
WHAT IS A BAPTIST?
By William B. Lipphard and Frank A. Sharp
WHAT IS A CATHOLIC?
By Donald W. Hendricks
WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH?
See who are the disciples of christ?
WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST?
By J. Buroughs Stokes
WHAT IS A CONGREGATIONALIST?
See what is The United Church of Christ?
WHO ARE THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST (Christian Church)?
By James E. Craig and Robert L. Friedly
WHAT IS AN EPISCOPALIAN?
By W. Norman Pittenger
WHAT IS A GREEK ORTHODOX?
By Arthur Douropulos
WHO ARE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES?
By Milton G. Henschel
WHAT IS A JEW?
By Morris N. Kertzer
WHAT IS A LUTHERAN?
By G. Elson Ruff and Albert P. Stauderman
WHAT IS A METHODIST?
By Ralph W. Sockman and Paul A. Washburn
WHAT IS A MORMON?
By Richard L. Evans
WHAT IS A PRESBYTERIAN?
By John S. Bonnell
WHAT IS A QUAKER?
By Richmond P. Miller and R. W. Tucker
WHAT IS A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST?
By Arthur S. Maxwell
THE "UNCHURCHED" AMERICANS: WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?
By Edward L. Ericson
WHAT IS A UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST?
By Karl M. Chworowsky and Christopher Gist Raible
WHAT IS THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST?
By The Church Office of Communication
WHAT IS AN AGNOSTIC?
By Bertrand Russell
THE RELIGION OF A SCIENTIST
By Warren Weaver
PART TWO/ALMANAC
A comprehensive collation of facts, events, opinion polls, statistics,
analyses, and essays on the problems and crises confronting the churches
today
I. ABORTION
Supreme Court Decision, 1973: Highlights and Analysis of Effects
American Attitudes Toward Abortion
Response of Catholics Prior to the Supreme Court Decision
Analysis of 72,988 Abortions Performed in the United States: 1970-1971
Abortions Performed on Catholic Women: International Data
Abortion and Young Blacks
Lutherans and Abortion
Effects of Legalizing Abortion
II. "ACTIVISM": THE GROWTH OR DECLINE OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS RELATED TO THEIR
SOCIAL ACTIVISM IN THE 1960s AND 1970s
Should the Churches Speak out on Social and Political Issues?
Opinions of Priests, Ministers, and Rabbis
Comparison of Attitudes
Are "Socially Oriented" and "Liberal" Churches Losing Members? Are
"Conservative" Churches Gaining?
Has the Catholic Church Gained or Lost Members?
Sunday Sermons: What Do They Say?
III. AFFIRMATIONS OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: CATHOLICS, JEWS, PROTESTANTS,
AGNOSTICS
What Is Your Religious Preference?
Is Religion a Relevant Part of Your Life?
U.S. Census Bureau Voluntary Survey
AGNOSTICS IN THE UNITED STATES
See Part One, "The 'Unchurched' Americans: What Do They Believe?" by Edward
L. Ericson; and Part Two, Chapters III and XXII
ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE UNITED STATES
See Part Two, Chapters XXV, "Jews," and XXX, "Prejudice and Religion"
IV. BELIEF IN GOD
"Do You Believe in a God?"
Comparison of the United States with Ten Other Nations
Belief in God: Priests, Ministers, and Rabbis
V. BELIEF IN HEAVEN, HELL, THE DEVIL, LIFE AFTER DEATH
"Do You Believe in Heaven?"
Comparison of United States with Ten Other Nations
"Do You Believe in Hell?"
"Do You Believe in the Devil?"
"Do You Believe in Life After Death?"
Belief of Clergy in Life After Death
VI. THE BIBLE
The Ecumenical Bible: 1973
Facts About the Bible: Editor's Summary in Question-Answer Form
Chart of the English Bible: Its Origin and History
Historical Highlights of the Bible
Catholic Bibles
Protestant Counterparts of Douay-Rheims Bible
The New American Bible
VII. BIBLE READING IN THE UNITED STATES
"Have You Yourself Read Any Part of the Bible at Home Within the Last
Year?"
"Which Version of the Bible Did You Read...?"
VIII. BIRTH CONTROL
U.S. National Statistics
Roman Catholic Contraception and Fertility: An International Survey
Use of Birth Control Devices by Catholic Women
Statistical Tables on Birth Control Among U.S. Roman Catholic Women
Trends in Attitudes Toward, and Use of, Birth Control Devices in the United
States
Family Planning
Poll of Roman Catholics on Birth Control and the Pill
Catholic Priests and Birth Control
Pope Cautions United Nations on Birth Control as Means of Coping with World
Population
IX. BLACK AMERICANS AND THE CHURCHES
Black Militance
Blacks and the Christian Church
Statistics: Black Church Membership
Intermarriage of Whites and Nonwhites: Current Statistics
Black Roman Catholics
Black Muslims
Early Negro Churches in the United States
X. CATHOLICS: FACTS, OPINIONS, TRENDS, FERMENT, AND SCHISMS
Catholicism Today: An Essay
Statistical Summary: Population, Clergy, Schools, Baptisms, Marriages
Opinions of U.S. Roman Catholics on Key Issues
Encyclical of Pope Paul VI: "Humanae Vitae"
Clergy and Orders: Problems, Defections, the Radical Nuns, the Jesuits
Celibacy: The Problem
Papal Authority and Papal Infallibility: Priests Versus Bishops
On Vatican II
Catholic-Jewish Relations
Catholics and Blacks
Vatican Policy Change on Communism
Catholicism Today
Catholic Holidays, Feasts, and Devotions
XI. CHURCH ATTENDANCE IN THE UNITED STATES
Church Attendance
Drop in Catholic Attendance at Mass
The Clergy's Opinions on Churchgoing
Comparison of Churchgoing in Seven Nations
XII. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: SEVENTY-NINE DENOMINATIONS
Census of Religious Groups in the United States
Comparative Annual Figures
Church Affiliation and Population Growth: Figures and Trends
Census of World Religious Groups
Comparison of Protestant and Catholic Membership Statistics
Church Membership Statistics by States and Regions
Sex and Race Composition
Age Composition
Education and Church Affiliation
Occupation and Church Affiliation
Income and Church Affiliation
Composition by Regions
Community Size and Church Affiliation
Critical Evaluation of Statistics on Religion
XIII. THE CLERGY
Statistics for Forty Religious Groups
Income of Protestant Ministers
Clergymen's Estimate of Their Relation to the Laity
Clergymen's Criticism of Church Performance
Clergymen's Vote on the Role of the Church
Protestant Clergymen's Attitude: "Would You Enter the Clergy Today?"
Women in the Protestant Ministry: Statistics, Attitudes, Problems
Catholics and the Ordination of Women
Jewish Women and the Rabbinate
Lutherans and the Role of Women
XIV. DENOMINATIONS AND THEIR "FAMILY" GROUPS
Church Groupings in the United States
Church Mergers
Lutheran Mergers
Clergymen's Preference on Protestant Church Merger
XV. DIVORCE AND RELIGION
Desertion as Divorce
National Divorce Figures and Projections
Catholic Divorce Rate and Trend
Catholic Attitudes Toward Divorce: 1967-1971
Catholic Law on Divorce
Catholic Theologians on Second Marriages
A Jesuit's View
Episcopalians Liberalize Divorce
XVI. ECUMENISM: HISTORY, HOPES, AND DISAPPOINTMENTS
Poll of Catholics and Protestants on Church Unification
The Ecumenical Movement: A Historical Summary
Less Optimistic Aspects
Papal Infallibility Reaffirmed
Obstacles to Ecumenism
Notable Studies -- and Predictions
XVII. EDUCATION IN RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES
Religious Instruction (Denominations of 100,000 or more)
Catholic Education in the United States
Poll on Parochial Schools
Parochial Schools and Racial Integration
Crisis in Parochial School Financing
Predictions: Parochial Schools
Enrollment in Jewish Schools: 1969-1970
XVIII. FAMILY SIZE AND PLANNING: POLLS AND STATISTICS
Decline in Family Size and Birth Rate
Poll Trend on Family Size
Catholic Fertility and Birth Rates in Various Countries
Opinions on Fertility Control: Religious Groupings
Fertility and Jews: A Special Problem
XIX. FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION
Supreme Court Rulings on Parochial Schools
Federal Aid "Revoked"
Effects on Catholic Schools
XX. HOLY DAYS AND RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES: ALL FAITHS
Calendar and Description
Tables of Movable Holidays: Christian and Secular, and Jewish: 1974-1982
Extended Catholic Calendar: 1974-1999
XXI. HOMOSEXUALITY: THE CHURCHES AND PSYCHIATRY
XXII. HUMANISTS: MANIFESTO II
XXIII. INFLUENCE OF RELIGION: OPINION POLLS
Is Religion Losing Its Influence?
Confidence in and Respect for the Church as Compared with Other
Institutions
Clergymen's Estimate of Religion's Influence
Influence of Sermons: Sociologists' Views
Optimism Regarding Future of Religion
XXIV. INTERMARRIAGE -- STATISTICS, OPINIONS, AND CONVERSION DATA:
CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS, AND JEWS
American Attitudes Toward Intermarriage
Opinions on Intermarriage: 1969
Attitudes Toward Marriages Between Christians and Jews
Attitudes of Jews Toward Intermarriage
Catholics and Intermarriage: Apostolic Letter
Opinions by Groups
Intermarriage in a Denominational Society: Comparison of Rates and
Religious Groups
Intermarriage and Conversion: Catholics, Protestants, and Jews
Research on Mixed Marriages
"JESUS MOVEMENTS"
See Part Two, Chapter XXVII, "Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in the
1970s"
XXV. JEWS
Population Figures
Faith and Religious Observance
Education
Changes in the Status of Jewish Women
Jews and Intermarriage
Jewish Women and the Rabbinate
Opinions of Jews: Anti-Semitism, Pride
Intermarriage: Opinions
Storm Within the Rabbinate over Intermarriage
Family Life and Judaism
Jews and Politics
Jewish Holidays
Jewish Calendar
XXVI. LUTHERANS: RECENT CRISES
Editor's Summary
MARRIAGE AND RELIGION
See Part Two, Chapters XV, "Divorce and Religion," and XXIV,
"Intermarriage"
XXVII. PENTECOSTAL AND CHARISMATIC MOVEMENTS IN THE 1970s
Nature of the Movements
How Large Are the Pentecostal Movements?
What Is Pentecostalism?
Church Responses
Four Different Pentecostal Groups
Psychology of Pentecostalism
Drugs and Pentecostalism
Historical Note
Prediction
A New Roman Catholic Mass
XXVIII. POLITICS AND RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION
XXIX. PRAYER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
XXX. PREJUDICE AND RELIGION
Attitudes Toward Other Faiths: Catholics, Protestants, Jews
Religious Prejudice and Politics: Catholic, Jewish, Black, Woman President
Prejudice Among Teen-Agers
Christian Faith and Anti-Semitism
Catholics and Jews
Papal Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Historical Background
Summary: Catholic-Jewish Relations Since Vatican II
Anti-Semitism Among Lutherans
XXXI. RELIGION IN U.S. HISTORY
Chronology: Highlights
Religious Affiliation of Presidents of the United States
Religious Affiliation of Justices of the Supreme Court
Religious Affiliation of Colonial Leaders
WOMEN AND RELIGION
Data on women are included in various chapters of Part One; see Almanac
above for polls, statistics, material on the clergy, different
denominations, etc., especially Chapter XIII
XXXII. YOUTH AND RELIGION
College Students: Relevance of Religion
College Students: Religion and Today's Problems
College Students: Church Attendance
Youth Attitudes: Birth Control, Abortion, Divorce
High-School Response to "Right and Wrong"
Interpretation of Data on Youth and Religion
REFERENCE AIDS
Headquarters of Denominations with Membership of 100,000 or More
Glossary of Religious Terms
INDEX