Modern American Religion, Volume II (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin E. Marty
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Cultural history
- Time of Work: 1919-1941
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Andre Siegfried, Billy Sunday, Marcus Garvey, Mordecai Kaplan, Harry Emerson Fosdick, J. Gresham Machen, William Pelley, Gerald Winrod, Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Charles E. Coughlin, Father Divine, H. Richard Niebuhr, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dorothy Day
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: Culture, United States or Americans, Politics, Social issues, Ethnic groups, Economics, Secularism, Fanaticism, Protestantism or Protestant churches
- Locales: United States
The theme of this book, as the title suggests, is the plentitude of public religious conflict in America between the two world wars. Chapter after chapter recounts struggles between and within religious factions, between religious and nonreligious groups, and within nonreligious spheres where religious concerns had spread their roots. Marty’s angle, however, is to argue that this very situation of plural allegiances and crisscrossing tensions and strains acted (and acts) to hold modern American culture together by neutralizing the force a single allegiance might unleash. Religious...
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