TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stivers,Richard
TI  - Religion in America today
SN  - 9781725293120
AV  - BR115.W6 S75 2021eb
U1  - 261 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Cascade Books
KW  - Ellul, Jacques,
KW  - Church and the world
KW  - Church and social problems
KW  - Culture conflict
KW  - United States
KW  - Christianity
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Église et le monde
KW  - Église et problèmes sociaux
KW  - Conflit culturel
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - 21e siècle
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: The enigma of religion -- Part I: The church of the world. The church and the state -- The church and technology -- Part II: The world as church. Personal religion -- Political religion -- Conclusion: The semblance of Christianity
N2  - "Religion in American Today describes how sacred powers and secular religions have overtaken and infiltrated Christianity. Secular religion is now dominant in America: It assumes the forms of personal religion and political religion. Christianity makes its living within the confines of these secular religions. The point of the book is to identify the idolatry in what now passes for Christianity. Technology and the political state are socially constructed as sacred powers. As such they are idols. In its slumber Christianity embraces technology and the political state to the point of becoming subordinate to them. Concurrently technology and the political state give rise to the dominant secular religions. Personal religion acts as a consumer service, a psychological technique, to acquire health and happiness in this life. Political religion is a consequence of politics replacing religion in the quest for collective meaning in a technological society. Political movements become religious revivals and political parties, churches. This book is an attempt to awaken Christians to the idols that beckon."--Provided by publisher
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