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

A major survey of the dramatic changes to American religious life in the decades after World War II

In this book, Robert Wuthnow gathers a vast amount of information into a narrative that answers numerous questions about the clash of religion and politics in the United States during the postwar era. In particular, he deciphers the growing polarization of religious liberals and religious conservatives, a serious division that generated conflicting claims about religion’s public role. While do...