Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective

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University of Illinois Press, 1980 - 245 pages

"Williams provides a thought-provoking overview of popular religion in America that will intrigue specialist and student alike. . . . He has both answered many questions and raised important new ones on the nature and development of American popular religion." --Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

"Pioneering. . . . I for one am glad he combined scholarship and chutzpah for this modestly immodest first word." --Catholic Historical Review

 

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Table des matières

FORMAL AND INFORMAL
2
EXTRAECCLESIASTICAL RELIGION
3
POPULAR RELIGION AND ACADEMIC STUDY
5
RELIGION CULTURE SYMBOLS AND SOCIETY
7
RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION AND SOCIAL CONTEXT
9
TOWARD A WORKING DEFINITION
17
NOTES
19
Traditional Religions and the Clash of Cultures
22
PROTESTANTISM AND MODERNIZATION
98
POPULAR MOVEMENTS IN BRITAIN AND ON THE CONTINENT
101
STRUCTURE AND ANTISTRUCTURE
106
PROVIDENCE AND PROPHECY
119
THE SYMBOLIC ADJUSTMENT TO URBAN LIFE
130
PENTECOSTALISM AND THAUMATURGY
142
WITCHCRAFT AND COUNTERSUBVERSION
150
FUNDAMENTALISM AND EVANGELICALISM
159

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
23
NATIVE AMERICAN AMERIND MOVEMENTS
26
RELIGIOUS SYNCRETISM AND INNOVATION IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY
38
NOTES
53
American Folk Religions and Their Transformations
58
FOLK RELIGION AND THE LITTLE TRADITION
59
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF FOLK RELIGION
63
FOLK DEVOTIONAL AND CLERICOPOPULAR STRAINS IN ROMAN CATHOLIC SYMBOLISM
68
ETHNIC VARIATIONS IN FOLK AND POPULAR CATHOLICISM
76
FOLK AND POPULAR JUDAISM AND SOME CATHOLIC PARALLELS
80
VOLUNTARILY SEGREGATED GROUPS
83
FOLK RELIGION CONCLUSION
87
NOTES
89
Popular Religion and the Modern World
97
THE CIVIL RELIGION
168
NOTES
176
PostModern PostPuritan Religion in Mass Society
196
RELIGION AND THE POSTMODERN ERA
197
RELIGION AND MASS MEDIA
202
THE HOLIDAY CYCLE IN THE POSTMODERN ERA
212
DEATH IN THE POSTMODERN AGE
214
THE LAST RELIGIOUS FRONTIER?
216
NOTES
219
Some Concluding Observations
226
Glossary
230
Index
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Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion and American Studies at Miami University. He is the author of America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century and Houses of God.

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