Philip Goff 
The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America 

This authoritative and cutting edge companion brings together
a team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity and
unique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of the
United States.

* A groundbreaking new volume which represents the first
sustained effort to fully explain the development of American
religious history and its creation within evolving political and
social frameworks

* Spans a wide range of traditions and movements, from the
Baptists and Methodists, to Buddhists and Mormons

* Explores topics ranging from religion and the media,
immigration, and piety, though to politics and social reform

* Considers how American religion has influenced and been
interpreted in literature and popular culture

* Provides insights into the historiography of religion, but
presents the subject as a story in motion rather than a snapshot of
where the field is at a given moment

Tabela de Conteúdo

Introduction by Philip Goff.

List of Contributors.

Interpreting American Religion.

Surveying Religion in America (Philip Goff, Indiana
University – Purdue University, Indianapolis).

Religion in American Society and Culture.

American Revolution (Thomas Kidd, Baylor University).

Borderlands (Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana
College).

Church and State (Derek Davis, University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor).

Civil Religion (Ira Chernus, University of Colorado).

Class and Labor ((Richard Callahan, University of
Missouri).

Denominations (Russell Richey, Emory University).

Economics (James Hudnut-Beumler, Vanderbilt
University).

Family (Rebecca Davis, University of Delaware).

Film (Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University).

Gender (Sarah Johnson, Gustavus Adlophus College).

Health (Christopher White, Vassar College).

Sensory Cultures Material and Visual Religion ((Sally Promey,
Yale University and Shira Brisman, Yale University).

Media (Robert Fortner, Calvin College).

Millennialism (Stephen Stein, Indiana University).

Missions (Wilbur Shenk, Fuller Graduate School of
Intercultural Studies).

Piety, Practice, and Ritual (Kathryn Lofton, Yale
University).

Popular Culture (John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State
University).

Race and Ethnicity (Robero Trevino, University of
Texas).

Regions (Philip Barlow, Utah State University).

Revivals (Michael Mc Clymond, Saint Louis University).

Science (William Durbin, Washington Theological
Union).

Social Reform (Zoe Trodd, UNC-Chapel Hill).

Theology and Beliefs (Robert Brown, James Madison
University).

Women (Susanna Morrill, Lewis & Clark College).

Traditions and Movements

American Indians (Tracy Leavelle, Creighton
University).

Anabaptists ((David Weaver-Zercher, Messiah College).

Baptists (Paul Harvey, University of Colorado).

Black Church (Sylvester Johnson, Indiana University).

Buddhism (Charles Prebish, Utah State University).

Catholicism to 1945 (Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State
University).

Catholicism since 1945 (Philip Gleason, University of Notre
Dame).

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (David Whittaker,
Brigham Young University).

Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Amy Slagle, University of
Southern Mississippi).

Evangelicalism (Darren Dochuk, Purdue University).

Hinduism ((Khyati Joshi, Fairleigh Dickinson
University).

Holiness and Pentecostalism ((Jonathan Baer, Wabash
College).

Islam (Edward E. Curtis IV, Indiana University-Purdue
University).

Judaism (Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina))

Lutherans (Susan Mc Carver, Lutheran Theological Southern
Seminary).

New and Homegrown Religions (Sean Mc Cloud, University of
North Carolina).

Protestant Liberalism (Mark Hulsether, University of
Tennessee).

Reformed Protestantism (Darryl Hart).

Wesleyan Tradition (Christopher Evans, Colgate Rochester
Crozer Divinity School).

Sobre o autor

Philip Goff is Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including co-editor, with Paul Harvey, of Themes in Religion and American Culture (2004) and The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945 (2005). For ten years he has been Senior Co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. Dedicated to public teaching, he has also been a scriptwriter and an interviewee on documentaries related to religion in American life for PBS, BBC, and HBO. Goff is a leading interpreter of religion’s role in contemporary American life, and has been named in Who’s Who Among Teachers, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.