The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II

by Robert Wuthnow

Overview

The description for this book, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II, will be forthcoming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691020570
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	01/21/1990
Series:	Studies in Church and State , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

"[The Restructuring of American Religion] is the most expansive and one of the most profound inquiries into the condition of American religious structure since World War II. . . . To carry on debates about this structure now without reference to Wuthnow would be to attempt to track a landscape of near-chaos without using the best available road map and set of markers. It is likely that we will be citing 'Wuthnow' as we have been referring eponymically to major interpretations of 'Herberg' or 'Berger' or 'Bellah.'"—-Martin Marty, Religious Studies Review

"This book is the most significant interpretation of recent American religious history available."—-John M. Mulder, Theology Today

"An extremely penetrating, nuanced, and largely convincing account of what is really happening to American religion—an account worthy of comparison with, say, Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew, or H. Richard Niebuhr's The Social Sources of Denominationalism, although Wuthnow's argument ultimately supersedes both."—-Wilfred M. McClay, Commentary

From the Publisher

"Illuminates great reaches of society beyond the confines of cathedral and chapel, tabernacle and temple. . . . So mountainous is the factual material on such a myriad of subjects and so thoughtful are the author's interpretations, grounded in a mastery of social science theory, that one can only be grateful for this brilliant examination of the public dimensions of religious culture."

American Historical Review

An extremely penetrating, nuanced, and largely convincing account of what is really happening to American religion—an account worthy of comparison with, say, Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew, or H. Richard Niebuhr's The Social Sources of Denominationalism, although Wuthnow's argument ultimately supersedes both.

Commentary - Wilfred M. McClay

This book is the most significant interpretation of recent American religious history available.

Theology Today - John M. Mulder

[The Restructuring of American Religion] is the most expansive and one of the most profound inquiries into the condition of American religious structure since World War II. . . . To carry on debates about this structure now without reference to Wuthnow would be to attempt to track a landscape of near-chaos without using the best available road map and set of markers. It is likely that we will be citing 'Wuthnow' as we have been referring eponymically to major interpretations of 'Herberg' or 'Berger' or 'Bellah.'

Religious Studies Review - Martin Marty

An extremely penetrating, nuanced, and largely convincing account of what is really happening to American religion—an account worthy of comparison with, say, Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew, or H. Richard Niebuhr's The Social Sources of Denominationalism, although Wuthnow's argument ultimately supersedes both.
— Wilfred M. McClay

Commentary

This book is the most significant interpretation of recent American religious history available.
— John M. Mulder

Theology Today

[The Restructuring of American Religion] is the most expansive and one of the most profound inquiries into the condition of American religious structure since World War II. . . . To carry on debates about this structure now without reference to Wuthnow would be to attempt to track a landscape of near-chaos without using the best available road map and set of markers. It is likely that we will be citing 'Wuthnow' as we have been referring eponymically to major interpretations of 'Herberg' or 'Berger' or 'Bellah.'
— Martin Marty

Religious Studies Review