Religion and American cultures (REF) : an encyclopedia of traditions, diversity, and popular expressions
Looks at religious diversity in the United States from mainstream faiths to Wicca and Zen, discussing faith, religious practices, traditions, and history of religions. The only multicultural survey of established and new American religions, this exhaustive three volume encyclopedia explores the fascinating interactions between religion and ethnicity, gender, regionalism, and popular culture. This three volume reference for a general and student (high school and above) audience was prepared under the editorial leadership of Laderman (American religious history and culture, Emory U. and Latino studies and religious studies, U. of California, Berkeley), with signed contributions from a long list of scholars. It comprises 26 anchor essays and some 120 supplementary essays, each with cross references and a bibliography, examining religions both within and outside of the mainstream, as well as themes such as sacred spaces, sexuality, films, and religious communities on the Internet. The final volume offers primary source documents that exemplify religious diversity. Over 150 essays written by more than 140 expert scholars, richly illustrated with images depicting a wide range of religious figures and activities, as well as significant religious sites, in the United States. An entire volume of primary source documents that captures the reality of religious diversity in American culture, including a copy of Cecil B. DeMille's essay the Screen as Religious Teacher (published in 1927) as well as more conventional materials on Christian Science, the New Age, and Buddhism, to name only a few of the religious traditions covered in this collection
Encyclopedias
3 volumes (xviii, 1046 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm
9781576072387, 9781576078549, 157607238X, 157607854X
1030641177
African American religions: African American Christianity
African American religious leaders
African Americans and Islam
African-derived America religions
Asian American religious communities: Chinese American religious communities
Japanese American religious communities
Korean American religious communities
Pacific Islander American religious communities
South Asian American religious communities
Buddhism in America: Buddhist churches in America
Mahayana religious communities
Soka Gakkai International-USA
Theravada religious communities
Tibetan, Buddhism
Zen
Catholicism in America: Conversions to Catholicism
Nuns and priests
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Public Catholicism
Vatican II
Hinduism in America: Hare Krishna movement
Body: Asian body practices
Christian spiritual practices
Clothing
Ecstasy
Pain
Piercing
Tattooing
Wounding
Death: AIDS quilt
Autopsies
Days of the dead (Dias de los Muertos)
Euthanasia
Mourning rituals
Roadside shrines
Spiritualism
Generations
Aging, eldership, and religion
Baby boomers
Children and young people
Family
Generation
Material culture: Christian retailing
Modern Catholic church decorations
Victorian bibles
Popular culture: Advertising
Cultural saints
Faith
Film
Religion in the news
Excerpt from Anne Hutchinson Trial (1637)
Excerpt from Cambridge Platform, Congregational Church Synod (1648)
Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
Half-way covenant, Congregational Synod (1662)
Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (1701)
Excepts from Cotton Matter, Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the ecclesiastical history of new England (1702)
George Whitefield, "The Eternity of hell-torments" (1772)
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741)
Declaration of Independence, July 4 (1776)
Excerpt from Charles Chauncy, the Salvation of all men (1784)
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