Religion in America since 1945 : a history / Patrick Allitt.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-299) and index.

1. Anxious victory: 1945-1952 -- The war's end -- The American religious landscape -- Cold War of the spirit -- Spiritual peace in the 1940s -- 2. Religion and materialism: 1950-1970 -- Fighting godless communism -- Religious intellectuals in the 1950s -- Eisenhower spirituality -- Church buildings -- 3. Religion, respect, and social change: 1955-1968 -- African American religion -- The civil rights movement begins -- White Christians and civil rights -- Nonviolence in decline -- Mormon America -- 4. New frontiers and old boundaries: 1960-1969 -- The Catholic president -- The supreme court and religion in schools -- Vietnam, part I -- Radical theology -- Catholic reform -- 5. Shaking the foundation, 1963-1972 -- American Judaism -- Vietnam, part II -- Catholic challenges to church discipline -- African American religion after King -- 6. Alternative religious worlds: 1967-1982 -- Space travel -- Feminism and ministry -- Feminist theology -- New religions, "cults," and their critics -- Asian spirituality in American dress -- 7. Evangelicals and politics: 1976-1990 -- Jimmy Carter and the evangelical presidency -- The new Christian right and the Reagan campaign -- The abortion controversy -- Wives and mothers -- 8. The Christian quest for justice and wisdom: 1980-1995 -- The antinuclear movement -- Sanctuary -- Creationism and evolution -- Christian academies and home schooling -- 9. Profits, profligates, and prophets: 1987-1995 -- The Evangelical scandals -- A minister in the White House? -- American Islam -- 10. The new world order: 1989-1999 -- End of the Cold War -- Religion and violence -- Environmental spirituality -- Megachurches -- 11. Fears, threats, and promises: 1990-2000 -- Homosexuality and religion -- Promise keepers -- Millennial expectation -- 12. The new millennium: 2001 -- Religion at ground zero.

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Identifying the major trends and telling moments within both major denominations and other less formal religious movements, Allitt asks how these religious groups have shaped, and been shaped by, some of the most important and divisive political issues and events of the last half century, including the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, feminism and the sexual revolution, abortion rights, and the antinuclear and environmentalist movements.

In English.

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