A Nation of Behavers - Softcover

Marty, Martin E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226508927 ISBN 13: 9780226508924

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1980

Synopsis

"National Book Award-winning author and historian Martin E. Marty's A Nation of Behavers is a characteristically perceptive new map of American religion. . . . Marty's years of astute observation of America's religious trends and developments have yielded six informal but clearly defined clusters around which people attempt to find not only basic group identity but also some kind of power. Anyone concerned about belief and its manifestations will be immensely aided by Marty's cogent comments on recent religious happenings."—Commonweal

"This is a book for everyone, more than for the scholar of American religion. . . . Its value is in breadth of vision and new interpretation."—Dean R. Hoge, Theology Today

"As a means of making sense out of the potpourri of competing groups that compose religious America today, A Nation of Behavers is a first-rate tool."—Edward A. Fiske, New York Times

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From the Back Cover:

In this book, the author constructs a new 'map' of American religion, a sociocultural 'geography of religion'....He argues convincingly that what most distinguishes one religious grouping from another is what people do, ...not primarily what they say or believe. We are a nation of behavers more than believers....It is a brilliant essay and must reading for all wish to understand the nature and function of religion in contemporary American society.

About the Author:

Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago. Among his many books are the 1972 National Book Award winner, Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America, and Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. He is also the author of Modern American Religion, Volume I: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919, published by the University of Chicago Press. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past President of the American Society of Church History, the American Catholic Historical Association, and the American Academy of Religion.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0226508927
• ISBN 13: 9780226508924
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 247