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

by James Hudnut-Beumler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813520843
• ISBN13: 9780813520841
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"