God & Apple Pie
Author： Buck Christopher
Publisher： Educator's International Press
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9781891928260
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781891928154
Subject： L No classification
Keyword： 暂无分类
Language： ENG
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Description
With an introduction by J. Gordon Melton (Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Baylor University), God & Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America, (revised edition) by Christopher Buck, is about an unusual religious topic: the United States of America. "e;America"e; is, at once, nation and notion, country and creed, republic and rhetoric. This book is about Providence and principle - the relationship of the supernatural world to the world's superpower. "e;America"e; is not in the Bible, nor in the Qur'an. Yet "e;America"e; today pulsates with religious significance. "e;America"e; is a word that has taken on mythic proportions. Eleven religions have been selected for their distinctive perspectives on America: (1) Native American religion (Iroquois); (2) Protestant Christianity (the Puritans); (3) the Christian Right; (4) Roman Catholicism; (5) Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist); (6) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons); (7) Christian Identity (White nationalists); (8) Nation of Islam (Black nationalists); (9) Islam (especially Radical Islamists and Progressive Muslims); (10) Buddhism (Tibetan and Soka Gakkai); and (11) the Baha'i Faith. Over the course of American history, religious myths and visions of America tend to reflect an ever-changing American civil society, whether as a function of its social evolution or as a catalyst of it. The result is: Religions re-m
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