Religion and American Culture: A Reader

by David G. Hackett (Editor)

Religion and American Culture challenges the religion's traditional emphasis on older European, American, male, middle-class, Protestant, northeastern narratives concerned primarily with churches and theology. Breaking through the field with multicultural tales of Native American, African Americans and other groups that cut across boundaries of gender, class, religion and region, David Hackett's anthology offers an illuminating and comprehensive overview of the most exciting work currently underway in this field.

Genres: Nonfiction

568 pages, Hardcover

First published December 21, 1995

Reviews

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my professor's book, and American Religious History was the only class I ever bothered to perfectly attend in four years of college.

[Zachary · Rating 4 out of 5]

The essays collected here are a phenomenal sampling of some of the best, most interesting, and most valuable scholarship in religion in the past several decades. That each essay is entertaining and eminently readable says a lot about the selection process and the quality of the scholarship itself. While this is certainly not a volume that gives you a great deal of depth in the contemporary study of religion, the breadth represented is admirable and, honestly, kind of incredible. As a starting point for digging deep into ongoing areas of research, or to seeing the way that religious studies scholarship has developed and matters, this is an indispensable volume. There are a few chapters or areas that are a bit long or dry, but for the most part this collection is remarkable and engaging through and through.

[Belle Meade School]

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