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The presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to respect religion itself--still less its free exercise in any situation that is not absolutely private. In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. In this readable, original, and provocative book, Viteritti argues that Americans must guard against debasing politics with either antireligious bigotry or religious zealotry. Drawing on politics, history, and law, he defines a new approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike. Challenging much conventional opinion, Viteritti argues that the courts have failed to adequately protect religious minorities, that the rights of the religious are under greater threat than those of the secular, and that democracy exacts greater compromises and sacrifices from the religious than it does from the secular. He takes up a wide range of controversies, including the pledge of allegiance, school prayer, school vouchers, evolution, abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage, and religious displays on public property. A fresh and surprising approach to the church-state question, The Last Freedom is squarely aimed at the wide center of the public that is frustrated with the extremes of both the Left and the Right.

Church and state --- School choice --- #SBIB:316.331H330 --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- #SBIB:328H31 --- Godsdienst en politiek: algemeen --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika --- Instellingen en beleid: VSA / USA

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Sociology of Religion is a collection that seeks to explore the relationship between the structure and culture of religion and various elements of social life in the United States. This reader is an ideal standalone course text and can also serve as supplement to the text written by the same author team, Religion Matters (Routledge, 2010). Based on both classic and contemporary research in the sociology of religion, this new, third edition highlights a variety of research methods and theoretical approaches to studying the sociological elements of religion. It explores the ways in which religious values, beliefs and practices shape the world outside of church, synagogue, or mosque walls while simultaneously being shaped by the non-religious forces operating in that world. (provided by publisher)

Religion and sociology --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika

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A massive religious transformation has unfolded over the past forty years in Latin America and the Caribbean. In a region where the Catholic Church could once claim a near monopoly of adherents, religious pluralism has fundamentally altered the social and religious landscape. Conversion of a Continent brings together twelve original essays that document and explore competing explanations for how and why conversion has occurred. Contributors draw on various insights from social movement theory to religious studies to help outline its impact on national attitudes and activities, gender relations, identity politics, and reverse waves of missions from Latin America aimed at the American immigrant community. Unlike other studies on religious conversion, this volume pays close attention to who converts, under what circumstances, the meaning of conversion to the individual, and how the change affects converts' beliefs and actions. The thematic focus makes this volume important to students and scholars in both religious studies and Latin American studies.

Conversion --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Latin America --- Religion. --- Conversion.

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The practice of Islam in the United States, spanning more than a century, has a contentious history that has escalated over the past decade. Debates have raged over Islam's articles of faith, especially within an American context, and its practitioners' intent. Some characterize these arguments as a clash between a white, evangelical majority and a Muslim minority, or they see it as evidence of the divide between tolerant liberals and close-minded conservatives. Casting this conflict as a generic struggle between us and them, Nadia Marzouki argues, is a gross oversimplification of Islam's development in America. In Islam: An American Religion, Marzouki investigates how Islam is lived, how it has changed, and how its identity has overlapped with American foreign policy toward the Muslim world. Revisiting the uproar over the construction of mosques, the perceived threat of encroaching Shar'ia law, and the overseas promotion of America's secular democratic traditions, Marzouki finds that public tensions over Islam in the United States reflect more of the West's ambivalence toward freedom of speech and political culture than the religion's purported agenda. Her unbiased portrait highlights American Islam's open outlook, which embodies and advances the core principles of the American political project. -- Provided by publisher.

Islam --- Islam and politics --- Islamophobia --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- #SBIB:316.331H421 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Anti-Islam prejudice --- Anti-Islamism --- Anti-Muslim prejudice --- Anti-Muslimism --- Discrimination against Muslims --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Politics and Islam --- Political science --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Social aspects --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika --- Morfologie van de godsdiensten: Islam --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Political aspects

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Although commonly celebrated as a distinct manifestation of Americana, hippies and psychedelics are routinely de-emphasized in favor of direct political activism, a phenomenon that constrains the full telling of the hippie counterculture as it relates to a radical religiosity defined by mutuality and altruism. Psychedelic Mysticism reevaluates the religious significance of the 1960s psychedelic counterculture, tracing how psychedelics became entheogenic, leading sixties figures to transition personal moments of enlightenment into everyday projects of social justice.

Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience. --- Hallucinogenic drugs --- Consciousness-expanding drugs --- Hallucinogens --- Mind-distorting drugs --- Psychedelic drugs --- Psychotomimetic drugs --- Psychotropic drugs --- Experience (Religion) and hallucinogenic drugs --- Experience (Religion) --- Social aspects --- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience --- #SBIB:316.331H595 --- #SBIB:316.331H382 --- Godsdienstige bewegingen: niet-geïnstitutionaliseerde gedragingen --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Amerika --- 316:2 <73> --- 316:2 <73> Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA