Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective - Softcover

Williams, Peter W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252060733 ISBN 13: 9780252060731

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1989

Synopsis

"Williams provides a thought-provoking overview of popular religion in America that will intrigue specialist and student alike. . . . He has both answered many questions and raised important new ones on the nature and development of American popular religion."
-- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"Pioneering. . . . I for one am glad he combined scholarship and chutzpah for this modestly immodest first word."
-- Catholic Historical Review
 

About this title

About the Author:

Peter W. Williams, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion and American Studies at Miami University, is the author or coeditor of several books, including "Encyclopedia of Religion in America".

Review:

"I for one am glad he combined scholarship and chutzpah." -- Martin E. Marty. "The book's most immediate contribution is the lucid and rather graceful way that enormously complex notions, such as culture, symbol, modernization, religion, and, of course, popular religion, are unfolded in the American historical context." -- Journal of the Church and State

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0252060733
• ISBN 13: 9780252060731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288