Religion and Religious Movements

Articles dealing with specific religions or faiths appear in the encyclopedia under the name by which they are commonly known. Here are collected three general articles covering, respectively, the outlines of religious history and practice in the United States (An Overview), recently emerged religious organizations and trends (Contemporary Religious Movements), and the place of religion in American popular culture�and vice versa (Religion and Popular Culture).

Bibliography

Cohen, Michael R., The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter's Disciples and Creation of an American Religious Movement (Columbia Univ. Press 2012).

Ferguson, Leland, God's Fields: Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia (Univ. Press of Fla. 2011).

Preston, Andrew, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (Knopf 2012).

Seager, Richard Hughes, The World's Parliament of Religions: The East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893 (Ind. Univ. Press 2009).

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Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), s.v. "Religion and Religious Movements," http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu/view?aid=696 (accessed August 23, 2018).

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