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Sociology of Religion in America tells the story of the controversies involved in the development of a scientific specialty that often makes news in America. The evidence it presents runs contrary to the many myths about the field. Sometimes viewed by scholars as a backwater, actual evidence from the 1890's to the 1980's shows that sociology of religion had a steady presence in sociology all along. Seen as a force alien to religion by some, it was actually in a mutually supportive relationship with religious organizations. Examining dissertations dating from 1895 to 1959 and scientific articles from the 1960's to the 1980's, Anthony J. Blasi discovers who the major sociologists of religion were and what they did. He traces the field’s previously unknown tradition in community studies, the exigencies of the research institutes, and dramatic changes in the professional associations.

Religion and sociology --- Sociologie religieuse --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Religion. --- Religion --- 316:2 <73> --- Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 316:2 <73> Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Religion and sociology - United States --- United States - Religion

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Catholics --- Immigrants --- 27 <73> --- 316:2 <73> --- -Immigrants --- -Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Christians --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- -Kerkgeschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 316:2 <73> Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Catholics in the United States --- Catholics - United States --- Immigrants - United States

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'In the Course of a Lifetime ' provides an unprecedented portrait of the dynamic role religion plays in the everyday experiences of Americans over the course of their lives. The book draws from a unique sixty-year-long study of close to two hundred Protestant and Catholic men and women who were born in the 1920s and interviewed in adolescence, and again in the 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, and late 1990s. Woven throughout with rich and intimate life stories, the book presents and analyzes a wide range of data from this study on the participants' religious and spiritual journeys. Michele Dillon and Paul Wink explore how such factors as early life experiences, personality traits, marriage and parenthood, mid-life, retirement, and adversity influenced the participants' religious engagement. In turn, they ask how religion and spirituality relate to well-being, community participation, political attitudes, health, depression, life satisfaction, and the fear of death. A testament to the vibrancy of religion in the United States, 'In the Course of a Lifetime' provides an illuminating and sometimes surprising perspective on how individual lives have intersected with cultural change throughout the decades of the twentieth-century.

Faith development. --- United States --- Religion. --- Foi --- Développement --- Etats-Unis --- Religion --- Faith development --- 27 <73> --- 316:2 <73> --- Development of faith --- Faith, Stages of --- Religious development --- Stages of faith --- Christian education --- Psychology, Religious --- Moral development --- 316:2 <73> Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- United States - Religion.

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America's churches have fallen on hard times. But this crisis is more than economic, says Wuthnow. He points to both the failure of the clergy to confront their financial problems head-on, & their neglect of the real spiritual needs of their congregation.

Church finance --- Middle class --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle classes --- Social classes --- Finance, Church --- Church management --- Finance --- History --- Social conditions --- United States --- Church history --- 316:2 <73> --- 316:2 <73> Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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In the decades following the Second World War, North America and Western Europe experienced widespread secularization and dechristianization; many scholars have pinpointed the 1960s as a pivotally important period in this decline. The Sixties and Beyond examines the scope and significance of dechristianization in the western world between 1945 and 2000. A thematically wide-ranging and interdisciplinary collection, The Sixties and Beyond uses a framework that compares the social and cultural experiences of North America and Western Europe during this period. The internationally based contributors examine the dynamic place of Christianity in both private lives and public discourses and practices by assessing issues such as gender relations, family life, religious education, the changing relationship of church and state, and the internal dynamics of religious organizations. The Sixties and Beyond is an excellent contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on the 1960s as well as to the history of Christianity in the western world."--Pub. desc.

Christianity --- Church history --- 253*8 --- 316:2 <73> --- 316:2 <71> --- 316:2 <4> --- 253*8 Onkerkelijkheid. Kerkverlating --- Onkerkelijkheid. Kerkverlating --- 316:2 <4> Godsdienstsociologie--Europa --- Godsdienstsociologie--Europa --- 316:2 <71> Godsdienstsociologie--Canada --- Godsdienstsociologie--Canada --- 316:2 <73> Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 1900 - 1999 --- Westeuropa. --- Nordamerika. --- Amerika --- Europa --- Westeuropäer