4.10 Allitt (2001)
Allitt, Patrick N., (2001) American Religious History (Audio or Video with Course Guidebook). Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company.
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Author
Dr. Patrick N. Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University, where he has taught since 1988. The holder of a doctorate in history from the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Allitt-an Oxford University graduate-has also taught American religious history at Harvard Divinity School, where he was a Henry Luce Postdoctoral Fellow. A widely published and award-winning author, Professor Allitt has written several books, including The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities throughout American History;Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985; Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome; and Religion in America since 1945: A History. In addition, he is the editor of Major Problems in American Religious History. He has written numerous articles and reviews for academic and popular journals, including The New York Times Book Review. (Click the book cover (right) to go to The Teaching Company's website page for this course. There you can see a detailed description of the course and its 24 30-minute lectures.) I've also reviewed Allitt's The Conservative Tradition (Audio or Video with Course Guidebook)(2009) (see 5.8) |
This Resource’s Key Interpretations and Insights Related to the Purposes of This Website
Being a native Brit gives Allitt a different and helpful angle on American history; he's especially interested in
American religion.
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Being a native Brit gives Allitt a different and helpful angle on American history; he's especially interested in
American religion.
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Additional Important Interpretations and Insights
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Endorsements
"Join historian Patrick N. Allitt in exploring the story of religious life in America from the first European contacts to the late 20th century. Along the way, you learn the answers to two important questions:
"On the one hand, that study includes examining religion from the directions you might expect, including its formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and its styles of worship.
"But Professor Allitt also examines religion's influence on life 'beyond the pews'—investigating the subtle but important links that have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans."
~partial website course description
- Why does America, unlike virtually any other industrial nation, continue to show so much religious vitality?
- Why are the varieties of religion found here so numerous and diverse?
"On the one hand, that study includes examining religion from the directions you might expect, including its formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and its styles of worship.
"But Professor Allitt also examines religion's influence on life 'beyond the pews'—investigating the subtle but important links that have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans."
~partial website course description
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