The secular landscape : the decline of religion in America /: the decline of religion in America. ([2017])
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- Title:
- The secular landscape : the decline of religion in America /: the decline of religion in America. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- The secular landscape : the decline of religion in America
- Further Information:
- Note: Kevin McCaffree.
- Authors:
- McCaffree, Kevin J, 1985-
- Contents:
- Dedication ; Foreword to The Secular Landscape; Taking Religion Seriously; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: The Secular Landscape; Religious America; The Longue Duŕee; Nonreligious America; The West in Context; American Exceptionalism?; References; Chapter 2: Religion Explained; Durkheim's Theory of Religion as Collective Effervescence; Beyond Durkheim; Integrative Definitions of Religion; The Origins of Religion; Mind-Body Dualism; Religion as a By-product of Evolved Cognition; Religion in Human Society; The Perception of Order, Purpose and Control. Framework for Conduct and Punishment Costly Beliefs and Practices Denoting Community Belonging; Religion as a Social-Psychological System; References; Chapter 3: Religious America; Protestantism Before the American Revolution; The Religious Cosmopolitanism of American History; Early Twentieth-Century Challenges to Church Authority and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Religious Revival; The Sixties Effect; The US Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society; Institutional Skepticism and Civil Rights; An Extended Youth of Intellectual Openness and Sexual Exploration. The Rise of the Religious Right"New Atheism" and the Spark of Religious Nonaffiliation from 1990 to Present; The Modern American Religious Landscape; Religious Altruism; A Short Note on American Cocooning; Is the United States an Exception to the Modernization-Secularization Thesis?; References; Chapter 4: Shades of the Secular; Secularity:Dedication ; Foreword to The Secular Landscape; Taking Religion Seriously; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: The Secular Landscape; Religious America; The Longue Duŕee; Nonreligious America; The West in Context; American Exceptionalism?; References; Chapter 2: Religion Explained; Durkheim's Theory of Religion as Collective Effervescence; Beyond Durkheim; Integrative Definitions of Religion; The Origins of Religion; Mind-Body Dualism; Religion as a By-product of Evolved Cognition; Religion in Human Society; The Perception of Order, Purpose and Control. Framework for Conduct and Punishment Costly Beliefs and Practices Denoting Community Belonging; Religion as a Social-Psychological System; References; Chapter 3: Religious America; Protestantism Before the American Revolution; The Religious Cosmopolitanism of American History; Early Twentieth-Century Challenges to Church Authority and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Religious Revival; The Sixties Effect; The US Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society; Institutional Skepticism and Civil Rights; An Extended Youth of Intellectual Openness and Sexual Exploration. The Rise of the Religious Right"New Atheism" and the Spark of Religious Nonaffiliation from 1990 to Present; The Modern American Religious Landscape; Religious Altruism; A Short Note on American Cocooning; Is the United States an Exception to the Modernization-Secularization Thesis?; References; Chapter 4: Shades of the Secular; Secularity: Continuums and Dimensions; Secularization; The Multidimensionality of Modern Secularization Theory; Secularization Theory: A Contemporary Synthesis; Defining Culture; Cultural Tightness-Looseness; Increasing Self-Dimensionality. Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Self-DimensionalityContextualizing the Modern Secularization Paradigm; A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Religious Beliefs; The Secularization of Society; References; Chapter 5: American Nones; Religious Nonaffiliates in the United States: A Profile; Types of Religious Nonaffiliates; Becoming an Atheist; Negative Attitudes Toward Atheists; New Statistical Analyses of Variation Among Nonaffiliated and Nonreligious Americans; Study One; Study Two; The Complexities of Religious Nonaffiliation; References; Chapter 6: The Future of Religion. Rising Religious Nonaffiliation, Falling Religious Right"New Age" Religion; Sketches of Religion's Future; Clash of Civilizations; The Gradual Secularization and Spread of Megachurches; Dwindling Networks and Increasing Social Isolation; Baseline Fuzziness with Punctuated Subcultural Tightening in Response to Threat; Conclusion; References; Bibliography; Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Copyright Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- Xix, 287 pages, illustrations, 22 cm
- Subjects:
- 211/.60973
Secularism -- United States
Religion and politics -- United States
Religion and politics
Secularism
United States
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 3319502611
9783319502618
9783319502625 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783319502625
331950262X - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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