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Contemporary American religion /edited by Wade Clark Roof.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, New York : Macmillan Reference USA, (c)2000.Description: 2 volume (xxvii, 861 pages): illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780028649283
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  • BL2525 .C668 2000
  • BL2525
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Contents:
volume 2. M-Z. Index.
Subject: In the preface, Roof characterizes this two-volume work as "a lexicon of popular religious culture" in contemporary America that pays less attention to "official teachings and practices" than to how these beliefs are "popularly understood." More than 250 contributors offer 500 articles on diverse religious movements, beliefs, and practices in the United States. Roof (religious studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) assembles enlightening, entertaining entries for the browsing reader. For those seeking interfaith comparisons, however, the work has some drawbacks. Many articles focus almost exclusively on the Christian understanding of terms. For instance, the entry on "millennialism" deals only with its Christian context, largely ignoring its modern sociological use to describe any movement that expects the replacement of the current world system with a divine one. Given that the work aims to document popular understanding and that most Americans are still most familiar with Christian approaches, this may be a minor flaw. This work compares favorably with other encyclopedias on American religion, filling a slightly different niche. J. Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions (Gale, 1996. fifth edition.) and James R. Lewis's The Encyclopedia of cults, Sects, and New Religions (LJ 9/1/98) deal with major and obscure religions as well as new religious movements. Roof's, on the other hand, looks at popular spiritual expression and includes subject articles on concepts that cross religious boundaries, such as "Food" and "Healing." Recommended for academic and large public libraries. https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-American-Religion-Two-Set/dp/0028649281/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=0028649281&qid=1595531178&sr=8-1
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Includes bibliographies and index.

volume 1. A-L -- volume 2. M-Z. Index.

In the preface, Roof characterizes this two-volume work as "a lexicon of popular religious culture" in contemporary America that pays less attention to "official teachings and practices" than to how these beliefs are "popularly understood." More than 250 contributors offer 500 articles on diverse religious movements, beliefs, and practices in the United States. Roof (religious studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) assembles enlightening, entertaining entries for the browsing reader. For those seeking interfaith comparisons, however, the work has some drawbacks. Many articles focus almost exclusively on the Christian understanding of terms. For instance, the entry on "millennialism" deals only with its Christian context, largely ignoring its modern sociological use to describe any movement that expects the replacement of the current world system with a divine one. Given that the work aims to document popular understanding and that most Americans are still most familiar with Christian approaches, this may be a minor flaw. This work compares favorably with other encyclopedias on American religion, filling a slightly different niche. J. Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions (Gale, 1996. fifth edition.) and James R. Lewis's The Encyclopedia of cults, Sects, and New Religions (LJ 9/1/98) deal with major and obscure religions as well as new religious movements. Roof's, on the other hand, looks at popular spiritual expression and includes subject articles on concepts that cross religious boundaries, such as "Food" and "Healing." Recommended for academic and large public libraries.

https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-American-Religion-Two-Set/dp/0028649281/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=0028649281&qid=1595531178&sr=8-1

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