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Paperback Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945-1965 Book

ISBN: 0813520843

ISBN13: 9780813520841

Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945-1965

In the 1950s, 99 percent of adult Americans said they believed in God. How, James Hudnut-Beumler asks, did this consensus about religion turn into the confrontational debates over religion in the 1960s? He argues that post-World War II suburban conformity made church-going so much a part of middle-class values and life that religion and culture became virtually synonymous. Secular critics like David Riesman, William Whyte, C. Wright Mills, and...

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