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

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

Hudnut-Beumler, James

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Atheism & AgnosticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0813520843
ISBN13: 9780813520841
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Sep 1 1994
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 Dwight Macdonald, who blamed American culture for its conformism and lack of class consciousness, and religious critics like Will Herberg, Gibson Winter, and Peter Berger, who argued that religion had lost its true roots by incorporating only the middle class, converged in their attacks on popular religion.

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