Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II (Studies in Church and State)

[The Restructuring of American Religion] is the most expansive and one of the most profound inquiries into the condition of American religious structure since World War II. . . . To carry on debates about this structure now without reference to Wuthnow would be to attempt to track a landscape of near-chaos without using the best available road map and set of markers. It is likely that we will be citing Wuthnow' as we have been referring eponymically to major interpretations of Herberg' or Berger' or Bellah.' --Martin Marty, Religious Studies Review This book is the most significant interpretation of recent American religious history available. --John M. Mulder, Theology Today An extremely penetrating, nuanced, and largely convincing account of what is really happening to American religion--an account worthy of comparison with, say, Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew, or H. Richard Niebuhr's The Social Sources of Denominationalism, although Wuthnow's argument ultimately supersedes both. --Wilfred M. McClay, CommentaryRobert Wuthnow is the author of 'Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II (Studies in Church and State)' with ISBN 9780691073286 and ISBN 0691073287.