Table of Contents

Preface Introduction The Sacred and Secular in American History From Covenant to Constitution: The Americanization of Judaism Black Theology and Historical Necessity Southern Protestant Clergy and the Disfranchisement of Blacks Citizens and Believers: Always Strangers? Women and Christ: The Transformer of Culture The Chicago Campaign King Tut and the Scopes Trial Revive Us Again: Alienation, Hope, and the Resurgence of Fundamentalism, 1930-1950 Evangelical Broadcasting: Its Meaning for Evangelicals God and Jimmy Carter Biodivinity: The Encounter of Religion and Medicine Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

M. L. BRADBURY is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland.

JAMES B. GILBERT is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He has written A Cycle of Outrage, Another Chance, and Writers and Partisans.

Reviews

.,."The book offers and analysis of religion and its sociological significance, Q providing Christian students and historians with relevant observations of the socioreligious and secular interaction in modern America."-The Christian Librarian

?...The book offers and analysis of religion and its sociological significance, Q providing Christian students and historians with relevant observations of the socioreligious and secular interaction in modern America.?-The Christian Librarian

?In May 1987, the University of Maryland hosted a conference on religion and modern American Society. The speakers focused on the interaction between the sacred and the secular; their revised conference papers form the contents of this volume. The theoretical framework is set forth by historian Martin Marty, who delineates several sociological/historical models of inquiry, and by theologian Harvey Cox, who maintains that public policy questions must include "religious" issues if they hope to remain meaningful. The more narrowly focused essays by Hasia Diner on the Americanization of Judaism, M.L. Bradbury on "Biodivinity" (the interaction between religion and medicine), and Leo Ribuffo on the faith of President Jimmy Carter are all exceptionally thoughtful. Other chapters include such themes as black theology, women and Christ, fundamentalism, Dwight L. Moody, the Scopes trial, and the rise of evangelical broadcasting. All the essays have a good deal to say, and the best ones are genuinely first-rate. Consequently, this compilation is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the persistence of religious themes in modern America. Graduate and undergraduate audience.?-Choice

..."The book offers and analysis of religion and its sociological significance, Q providing Christian students and historians with relevant observations of the socioreligious and secular interaction in modern America."-The Christian Librarian

"In May 1987, the University of Maryland hosted a conference on religion and modern American Society. The speakers focused on the interaction between the sacred and the secular; their revised conference papers form the contents of this volume. The theoretical framework is set forth by historian Martin Marty, who delineates several sociological/historical models of inquiry, and by theologian Harvey Cox, who maintains that public policy questions must include "religious" issues if they hope to remain meaningful. The more narrowly focused essays by Hasia Diner on the Americanization of Judaism, M.L. Bradbury on "Biodivinity" (the interaction between religion and medicine), and Leo Ribuffo on the faith of President Jimmy Carter are all exceptionally thoughtful. Other chapters include such themes as black theology, women and Christ, fundamentalism, Dwight L. Moody, the Scopes trial, and the rise of evangelical broadcasting. All the essays have a good deal to say, and the best ones are genuinely first-rate. Consequently, this compilation is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the persistence of religious themes in modern America. Graduate and undergraduate audience."-Choice