{"product_id":"looking-for-god-in-the-suburbs-the-religion-of-the-american-dream-and-its-critics-1945-1965-paperback","title":"Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945-1965 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Hudnut-Beumler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Although most Americans continued to live and worship as before, a significant number of young people followed the critics' call for a faith that led to social action, but they turned away from organized religion and toward the counterculture of the sixties. The critics of the 1950s deserve credit for asking questions about the value of religion as it was being practiced and the responsibilities of the affluent to the poor--and for putting these issues on the social and cultural agenda of the next generation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Hudnut-Beumler\u003c\/b\u003e is the Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University and dean of the Divinity School. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt in 2000, he was dean of the faculty at Columbia Theological Seminary, a program associate for Lilly Endowment, and director of the undergraduate program in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Dr. Hudnut-Beumler is the author of \u003ci\u003eLooking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e1945-1965\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers, 1994) and \u003ci\u003eGenerous Saints: Congregations Rethinking Money and Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (Alban, 1999), and is co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU, 2005). Most recently he completed an economic history of American Protestantism from 1750 to the present, entitled, \u003ci\u003eIn Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism\u003c\/i\u003e (University of North Carolina, 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53560759189811,"sku":"9780813520841","price":66.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/7dc1AZpbOe9780813520841.webp?v=1783113954","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/looking-for-god-in-the-suburbs-the-religion-of-the-american-dream-and-its-critics-1945-1965-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}