Author: Christiano, Kevin J.
Title: Religious Diversity & Social Change. American Cities, 1890 - 1906
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1987). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvii,239 pp.. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, VG, in a slightly soiled dustwrapper. dustwrappe ¶ Contents: "As Slavery Never Did": American Religion & the Rise of the City;"Numbering Israel": United States Census Data on Religion; "An Infinite Variety of Religions": The Meaning & Measurement of Religious Diversity; " A Motley of Peoples & Cultures": Urban Populations & Religious Diversity; "A New Society": Industrialization & Religious Diversity; "No Fast Friend to Policy or Religion": Literacy & Religious Diversity; "God's Bible at the Devil's Girdle": Religious Diversity & Urban Secularization; "If the Religion of Rome Becomes Ours": Religious Diversity, Subcultural Conflict &Denominational Realignment; "Matters Merely Indifferent": Religious Diversity & American Denominationalism; Appendices.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, United States, Urbanization, Social History, Urban Religion, Religious Diversity, Denominations, American Demography, Denominationalism