Advanced Search
Print - Close Window
www.greenwood.com/catalog/LPL%2f.aspx
All Greenwood Products
Modern American Popular Religion A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography
This book is not currently available for purchase Online. Please call 1-800-225-5800 to backorder.
Book Code: LPL/
ISBN: 0-313-27786-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27786-3
264 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 1/30/1996
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies
Series Number: 37
Reviews:
  • THis bibliography will be useful in seminary and other academic libraries.

    Choice
Description: Lippy makes a case for the importance of exploring popular religion if one is to understand the dynamics of modern religious life. The first annotated bibliography on the subject, this work features over 550 entries topically arranged. Lippy provides a critical assessment of the state of the study of popular religion, including an examination of theoretical materials that wrestle with trying to define precisely what popular religion is. This book is of interest to scholars, students, and anyone concerned with understanding today's religion. The bulk of the work consists of critical annotations of books, articles, and dissertations that deal with various aspects of popular religion in the United States from 1870 to the present. The topics covered include background studies, biographical works, titles dealing with fundamentalism and evangelicalism, expressions of popular religion in the arts, the use of mass media, and personal spirituality. The work is of great importance as long as Americans engage in the human quest to make sense out of their own experience and look beyond themselves to a supernatural realm that will assist them in ordering their lives.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by G. E. Gorman
  • Preface
  • The Literature of Modern American Popular Religion
  • Theoretical, Contextual, and Reference Materials
  • Overviews and Studies of Broad Themes
  • Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, and the Religious Right
  • Radio and Television Ministries
  • Expressions of Popular Religion in the Arts
  • Self-Help and Recovery Movements
  • Biographical Studies
  • Traditional and Unconventional Approaches to Personal Spirituality
  • The Ethnic Dimension of Popular Religion
  • Miscellaneous Titles
  • Author Index
  • Title Index
  • Subject Index
LC Card Number: 95-46009
LCC Class: BL2525
Dewey Class: 200
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2008 Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881, (203) 226-3571