Religious Diversity and Social Change

Powerful forces of social change at the turn of the nineteenth century forced American churches and their members to confront, for the first time, the issue of religious toleration. Christiano analyzes the effects of mass immigration and urbanization on various communities. These upheavals required the established churches to either accept or repel a level of religious diversity unimagined by the architects of American liberty. By examining changes in church membership in the largest urban areas, integrating historical research from a number of disciplines with statistical analyses of the United States Census reports of 1890 and 1906, this cross-disciplinary study provides an empirical assessment of the cultural shifts that laid the foundations for the denominational system that prevails in America today.

המשפט הראשון: After the conclusion of the nineteenth century's most important social crusade, the one which sought to liberate thousands of Americans from legal though involuntary servitude, Wendell Phillips, a prominent abolitionist and a farsighted reformer, predicted that "the time will come when our cities will strain our institutions as slavery never did" (quoted in Strong, 1898: 101-102).

שנה

1987

שפה

English

הוצאה

Cambridge University Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

262

ISBN

9780521341455

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata