Field Guide to the Wild World of Religion: 2011 Edition

by Pamela Dewey

Overview

The American religious scene in 1955 was a very tame and predictable world. It matched the tame, predictable world of women's clothing, where most women going out shopping wore a dress with coordinating gloves, hat, and shoes. And it matched the tame, predictable world of children's toys, where almost every young girl yearned for a baby doll that said Ma-Ma, and almost every boy needed a coonskin cap. Choices of fashions, toys, preachers, and churches were limited and domesticated.

Fifty years later, the tame, predictable world of 1950s fashions and toys is long gone. Women go shopping in everything from sweatshirts and jeans to tube tops and short shorts. And both boys and girls want the latest Sponge Bob Square Pants video game. The same kind of transformation has gone on in the world of religion. It is no longer tame and predictable either.

Welcome to the Wild World of Religion of the 21st Century. Explore its habitats, identify some of the inhabitants, and learn about their characteristics and customs in this Field Guide.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013940376
Publisher:	eBookIt.com
Publication date:	02/13/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Pamela Dewey has a B.A., magna cum laude, in education, with graduate work in education, psychology, and social sciences, from Michigan State University. She has been doing research in the field of modern religious movements for over 25 years. Pam's popular Field Guide to the Wild World of Religion website at isitso.org has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world who are looking for accurate information on a wide variety of religious groups, movements, teachers, and preachers. She maintains over a dozen websites and five blogs on a variety of educational and inspirational topics, and travels with her husband George throughout the year to present seminars at conferences around the country.