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Activism
Anecdotal evidence
Assemblies of God
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Author_Rhys H. Williams
Baptism
Baptists
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Catholic Church
Christian denomination
Christian mission
Christian right
Church attendance
Church covenant
Church service
Civil religion
Clergy
Confraternity
Congregational church
Consecration
Diocese
Ecumenism
Elitism
Engel v. Vitale
Episcopal polity
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Ethnic religion
Evangelical Association
Foray
Holy Orders (Catholic Church)
Homelessness
Hope Church
Incumbent (ecclesiastical)
Interfaith dialogue
Interfaith marriage
Jehovah's Witnesses
Judeo-Christian
Laity
Litany
Mainline Protestant
Methodism
Moral suasion
Nativity scene
Newspaper
Old Catholic Church
Pacifism
Parochial school
Pastor
Pastoral letter
Politics
Protestantism
Rebuke
Rebuttal
Reform Judaism
Religion
Religiosity
Religious community
Religious denomination
Religious education
Religious organization
Religious pluralism
Religious studies
Renunciation
Secularization
Separation of church and state
Separatism
Sherbert v. Verner
Social Gospel
Spirituality
State religion
The Other Hand
The Salvation Army
Theodicy
Washington Gladden
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- ISBN 9780691607849
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Homelessness, black neighborhood development, problems of abortion and sex education--how does religion affect the politics of an American city confronting these and other concerns? And what differences have "church and state" issues made in these struggles? In answering such questions, A Bridging of Faiths conveys a feeling of the urgent social theater of Springfield, Massachusetts, and provides both a contemporary and historical sense of how power shapes and is shaped by the civic culture. Recalling the immediacy and provocativeness of classic community studies like Middletown and Yankee City, the work draws on the voices of Springfielders themselves, while it exposes tendencies that prevail throughout contemporary America. This is a tale of two establishments: Protestant for three centuries, Springfield has been for the last fifty years a Catholic city. In looking at its emerging demographic, political, and economic patterns, the book shows how church and state interact at the local level, where lives are actually lived, as opposed to how the law and public opinion say they ought to interact at the more abstract federal level.
While religion is more politically influential than some social scientists might have expected, it does not possess the kind of power feared by many constitutionalists. Politicians are seeking to redefine themselves in relation to religion and in other ways, and religion as a whole faces subtle crises of mobility, authority, and secularization. From these complexities, new patterns of cultural and political authority have emerged in Springfield, similar to those now affecting other American communities and the nation. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
