Making The American Religious Fringe
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Author |
: Sean McCloud |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2005-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807863664 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807863661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making the American Religious Fringe by : Sean McCloud
In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted religions as "mainstream" or "fringe" in the post-World War II United States. McCloud argues that in assuming an American mainstream that was white, middle class, and religiously liberal, journalists in the largest magazines, under the guise of objective reporting, offered a spiritual apologetics for the dominant social order. McCloud analyzes articles on a wide range of religious movements from the 1950s through the early 1990s, including Pentecostalism, the Nation of Islam, California cults, the Jesus movement, South Asian gurus, and occult spirituality. He shows that, in portraying certain beliefs as "fringe," magazines evoked long-standing debates in American religious history about emotional versus rational religion, exotic versus familiar spirituality, and normal versus abnormal levels of piety. He also traces the shifting line between mainstream and fringe, showing how such boundary shifts coincided with larger changes in society, culture, and the magazine industry. McCloud's astute analysis helps us understand both broad conceptions of religion in the United States and the role of mass media in American society.
Author |
: Richard G. Kyle |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 474 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015026953003 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Religious Fringe by : Richard G. Kyle
America--the land of the free--has from its earliest days spawned and nurtured a wide range of new or alternative religious. Often veering from traditional roots or seeking to find their way back toward the center, these religious fringe groups have a fascinating story long overlooked in many treatments of American history. Richard Kyle here traces the origins and development of alternative religions, showing their influence on American culture.
Author |
: Adam Morris |
Publisher |
: Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2019-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781631492143 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1631492144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation by : Adam Morris
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power. Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates, these charismatic, if flawed, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills—such as income inequality, gender conformity, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible “American Dream”: men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.
Author |
: J. C. Hallman |
Publisher |
: Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106018758281 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Devil is a Gentleman by : J. C. Hallman
A hundred years ago, the writer and philosopher William James wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience, a seminal work that has inspired generations of scholars and eccentrics alike. James’s book argues that the religious spirit in man is best understood through the study of its most extreme forms. Varieties was a watershed effort: a bestselling portrait of history’s pluralism and a defense of the spiritual quest, in all its guises, against the era’s increasingly secular sentiments. Today, with all the old tensions between skeptics and believers still in place, J. C. Hallman pays homage to James’s exploration of offbeat religious movements. But where James relied on the testimony and biographies of prophets and mystics, Hallman travels directly to some of America’s newest and most unusual religions, trekking from Druid circles in the mossy hills of northern California to the gleaming mother church of Scientology, from lurid satanic cellars in undisclosed locations to a professional-wrestling ministry in the fundamentalist heart of Texas. Along the way, he participates in a variety of rites and reports on a broad spectrum of beliefs. Eventually Hallman adopts James as his patron saint, spiritual adviser, and intellectual companion on the journey that will culminate in the creation of this book, a compelling combination of adventure and biography, spotted with hair-raising predicaments and rife with poignant portraits of unforgettable characters, including William James himself. The Devil Is a Gentlemanmaps the spiritual contours of modern American pluralism and examines the life and legacy of one of its most profound architects.
Author |
: Sean McCloud |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2015-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190205362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190205369 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Possessions by : Sean McCloud
Stories of contemporary exorcisms are largely met with ridicule, or even hostility. Sean McCloud argues, however, that there are important themes to consider within these narratives of seemingly well-adjusted people who attend school, go shopping, watch movies, and also happen to fight demons. American Possessions examines Third Wave spiritual warfare, a late twentieth-, early twenty-first century movement of evangelicals focused on banishing demons from human bodies, material objects, land, regions, political parties, and nation states. While Third Wave beliefs may seem far removed from what many scholars view as mainstream religious practice, McCloud argues that the movement provides an ideal case study for identifying some of the most prominent tropes within the contemporary American religious landscape. Drawing on interviews, television shows, documentaries, websites, and dozens of spiritual warfare handbooks, McCloud examines Third Wave practices such deliverance rituals (a uniquely Protestant form of exorcism), spiritual housekeeping (the removal of demons from everyday objects), and spiritual mapping (searching for the demonic in the physical landscape). Demons, he shows, are the central fact of life in the Third Wave imagination. McCloud provides the first book-length study of this influential movement, highlighting the important ways that it reflects and diverts from the larger, neo-liberal culture from which it originates.
Author |
: Sean McCloud |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004171428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004171428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Class in America by : Sean McCloud
Class has always played a role in American religion. Class differences in religious life are inevitably felt by both those in the pews and those on the outside looking in. This volume starts a long overdue discussion about how class continues to matter - and perhaps even ways in which it does not - in American religion. Class is indeed important, whether one examines it through analysis of events and documents, surveys and interviews, or participant observation of religious groups. The chapters herein examine class as a reality that is both material and symbolic, individual and corporate. "Religion and Class in America" examines the myriad ways in which class continues to interact with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and group affiliations of American religion.
Author |
: Sean McCloud |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2009-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807877623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 080787762X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Divine Hierarchies by : Sean McCloud
Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in today's world. More than a status grounded in material conditions, says McCloud, class is also an identity rhetorically and symbolically made and unmade through representations. It entails relationships, identifications, boundaries, meanings, power, and our most ingrained habits of mind and body. He demonstrates that employing class as an analytical tool that cuts across variables such as creed, race, ethnicity, and gender can illuminate American religious life in unprecedented ways. Through social theory, historical analysis, and ethnography, McCloud makes an interdisciplinary argument for reinserting class into the study of religion. First, he offers a new three-part conception of class for use in studying religion. He then presents a focused cultural history of religious studies by examining how social class surfaced in twentieth-century theories of religious affiliation. He concludes with historical and ethnographic case studies of religion and class. Divine Hierarchies makes a convincing case for the past and present importance of class in American religious thought, practice, and scholarship.
Author |
: Alex Mar |
Publisher |
: Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2015-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374709112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374709114 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witches of America by : Alex Mar
"Witches are gathering." When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day magic. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in 1950s England to its current American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies. Along the way she takes part in dozens of rituals and becomes involved with a wild array of characters: a government employee who founds a California priesthood dedicated to a Celtic goddess of war; American disciples of Aleister Crowley, whose elaborate ceremonies turn the Catholic mass on its head; second-wave feminist Wiccans who practice a radical separatist witchcraft; a growing "mystery cult" whose initiates trace their rites back to a blind shaman in rural Oregon. This sprawling magical community compels Mar to confront what she believes is possible-or hopes might be. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all? Whether evangelical Christian, Pagan priestess, or atheist, each of us craves a system of meaning to give structure to our lives. Sometimes we just find it in unexpected places.
Author |
: Philip Jenkins |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195127447 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195127447 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mystics and Messiahs by : Philip Jenkins
In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults.
Author |
: Sean McCloud |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0190205385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190205386 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Possessions by : Sean McCloud