American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future

By Wade Clark Roof

Book Overview

Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney argue that a new voluntarism is slowly eroding the old social and economic boundaries that once defined and separated religious groups and is opening new cleavages along moral and life-style lines. Nowhere has the impact of these changes been more profoundly felt than by the often-overlooked religious communities of the American center, or mainline--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813512158
• ISBN13: 9780813512150
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Recommended Buy!

This is a great book for anyone who enjoys the history and social divisions of religious groups. Students, scholars and seekers will all find this book a great reference. After reading, you finally understand how religion, religious groups, and religious ideology play a role in the lives of Americans today. It can be dry and long for persons who just wanted some information but not the nitty gritty details. I highly recommend for social scientists.