Religion and religiosity in The United States
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2011
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1733-2680
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"Considering the lack of attention paid to religious topics in European popular journalism
and scholarly magazines, the noticeable interest in religiosity and passionate
discussions on the issue in the United States is an interesting phenomenon.
An inquiring observer of American religious life will easily notice that new publications
on the topic are issued with an extraordinary frequency. This indicates that
religion is an important part of various aspects of the American past and present
reality. It constituted one of the fundamentals upon which the United States was
built, determined the mentality of the first settlers and their descendants and was
an influential factor in the social and cultural changes in the country. Moreover,
religion has always interwoven with politics, from the period of the first colonial
authorities up to today. An interesting characteristic of American religion is also
its symbiosis with popular culture. It seems that church leaders are experts in benefiting
from modern technologies, both in performing religious services and in
attracting new members. All these issues make American religiosity an intriguing
phenomenon from a sociological point of view. Therefore, I will investigate it in
this paper. Nevertheless, there are numerous difficulties which come along with all
the fascinating observations, mainly caused by the fact that there is simply no one
dominant American faith. The times when Protestantism did not have rivals and
shaped American culture are gone. Nowadays, the American religious scene is so
diverse that it cannot be easily organised or classified. Bearing this fact in mind,
I will attempt to sketch a general and to some degree simplified image of American
religiosity which will, however, provide an insight into this absorbing topic."(...)
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Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2011, nr 2, s. 241-260.