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Robert Wuthnow Religion/American Studies THE RESTRUCTURING OF AMERICAN RELIGION Society and Faith since World War II ROBERT WUTHNOW The Restructuring of American Religion is a major survey of the last four decades of American religion fe-an intriguing and well-documented account of the dramatic changes that have occurred sunce World War II Robot Wathnow gathers a vait amount of factual information into a fast paced narrative mat anewers numerous questions about what is really happening es religion and politics interact in the United States. In particular, he deciphers the growing polarization of religious liberals and refigious conserva tives seruus divssion that has generated conflicting claims abosas erligion's public mle "The book is the most significant interpretation of recent American religious hostory available [Wattoow of thesis is richly textured, and he has compelling insights into many aspects of America's religsous life and its institutions John M. Mulder, Theology Tedity "The Restructuring of Americare Religion is the most expansive and one of the most profound inquiries into the condition of American religions structure since World War II To carry on debates about this structure now without reference to Wuthnow would be to attempt to track a landscape of near-chaos without using the best available nud map and set of markers. It is likely that we will be citing "Wathnow as we have been referring eponymically to major interpretations of "Herberg' or 'Berger' or 'Bellah -Martin Marty, Religious Studies Review (forthcoming) "No one book could possibly do service as a sociological map of the current state of American religion, but if a reader were confined to only one, this could, arguably, be it. Wuthnow writes with grace, wearing his massive learning and factual arsenal lightly. He probes the wider cultural significance and unpact of American religion on society and vice versa. I suspect this thoughtful and informed book is likely to he the best work in the sociology of religion to appear in 1988 -John A Coleman, The Annals of the American Academy of Polirical and Social Science "Wuthnow writes in the tradition of Robert Bellah, Clifford Geertz, Andrew Greeley, and Peter Berger, which means, in essence, that he is profoundly dubious about any simple minded secularization hypothesis as helpful in understanding American religion and, equally, is committed to seeing religion as a symbolic language which provides an overarching meaning schema for both individual and social life. Wuthnow takes us through the American decades of the postwar period, noting shifts and emphases in a way that is both enlightening and provocative." -Commonweal "An extremely penetrating, nuanced, and largely convincing account of what is really happening to American religion-an account wurthy of comparison with, say, Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew, or H. Richard Niebuhr's The Social Sources of Denominationalism, although Wuthnow's argument ultimately supersedes both -Wilfred M. McClay, Commentary Robert Wuthnow is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of several books on American culture and religion, including Meaning and Moral Order Explorations in Cultural Analysis (California). 261.709730691020574 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 261.70973 Wut r E99032830 Non Fiction 261.70973 Wut r Restructuring_af_american_religion.jpg 64549 2014-12-17 10:19:06 2026-02-14 08:21:28 machine generated