Spiritual Politics: Religion and America since World War II - Hardcover

Silk, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671439103 ISBN 13: 9780671439101

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1988

Synopsis

A social history of the people and ideas that have shaped American culture in the postwar era shows how Americans have pursued a national religion while operating as spiritual individuals and reveals how religion operates in business

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The existence of a distinctive religious dynamic in the United States is manifest as Silk, a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution, evaluates the operation of that dynamic in the years since World War II. The tensions generated by religious pluralism form the central religious issue of our time, according to Silk, who reviews the last four decades of our social history, concentrating on the development of the Judeo-Christian tradition in the country. This tradition, on the national as well as the personal level, is shown to have formed many configurations and become a paradoxical necessity in the business of government, as well as in the conduct of lives. The author presents the changing values in American public and religious life with insights that contribute to an understanding of our many-stranded religious history.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0671439103
• ISBN 13: 9780671439101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206