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Title: Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology by Will Herberg ISBN: 0-226-32734-5 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Correction
Comment: Great book, but Martin Marty is not an "illustrator."
Rating: 5
Summary: We Live on Uncle Sam's Stove!
Comment: Originally published in 1955, PROTESTANT-CATHOLIC-JEW is still worth reading and still significant. It is a good deal more than a tour of America's religions; it is a book about what it means to be an American. Herberg got a few things wrong, and a good deal has happened since 1955, but he was a wise man who was close to the mark on several important issues.//Briefly, Herberg argues that, contrary to Israel Zangwill and other theorists of a single assimilating melting pot, the United States has three melting pots: a Protestant melting pot, a Catholic melting pot, and a Jewish melting pot. According to Herberg, each subsequent generation of Americans considers itself less and less "ethnic." But as ethnic consciousness declines, religion becomes more important, so any intermarriage among different ethnic groups stays within the same religious denominations. For example, third-generation Polish-Americans (almost invariably Catholic) don't marry other Polish-Americans, but they do choose Catholic spouses. Their children become Catholic Americans, and part of the Catholic melting pot. // Herberg claims that the three melting pots are so important that there are now three fundamental ways of being an American. One can be a Protestant American, a Catholic American, or a Jewish American. The only exception Herberg makes is for the members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, whose intellectuals confuse everyone by insisting on Four Great Faiths rather than Three.//Herberg admits that the triple melting pot thesis has certain flaws. Specifically, he regards African Americans as a permanent outcast group that will likely never become part of the larger Protestant melting pot. (He says nothing about black Catholics and black Jews.) He also acknowledges the existence of a few members of various Eastern religious sects, but he clearly considers such people too marginal to think very hard about.//Within a few years of the publication of PROTESTANT-CATHOLIC-JEW, the whole idea of the melting pot--even a triple one--became unfashionable. Eminent scholars and politicians told us about "unmeltable ethnics." At the same time, religious intermarriage has become more common, making one wonder if the triple melting pot thesis is still valid. And, since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, large numbers of Asians have moved to the United States, creating the outlines of a nation with Five Great Faiths: Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, and Hindu. Unfortunately, Herberg himself is no longer around to interpret these trends, so we'll just have to sit here and cook for awhile.
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic on American religious development
Comment: Herberg brilliantly analyzes, with both insight and feeling, the development of the American religious landscape. We owe much of our cultural and religious identity to the waves of immigration that came to our shores and the particular ways in which these newcomers were assimilated to the American way. Our situation has changed somewhat since Heberg's work in 1960, but his careful, lucid, and detailed explanation of who we are is still highly worth reading. I warmly recommend it to my students.
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Title: Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right by Michael Lienesch ISBN: 0807844284 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day ISBN: 0060617519 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Muslims on the Americanization Path? by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John L. Esposito ISBN: 0195135261 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape by Robert A. Orsi ISBN: 0253212766 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Restructuring of American Religion by Robert Wuthnow ISBN: 0691020574 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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