American Religious Exceptionalism
A Reconsideration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9775546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward A Tiryakian (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 527 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-54 |
| Publication date | 1993-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716293527001004 |
| OpenAlex | W2115478888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 20 |
The first part of this article deals with religion in the United States in the context of American exceptionalism. At least since Tocqueville, observers have noted that a distinctive national characteristic of the United States is its religious vitality. In addition to commonly cited aspects of religious activism, it is also argued here that this exceptional vitality is reflected in the periodical mass or public renewals of the religious life and, stemming from Puritanism, in the diffusion of religious elements to other social contexts. A second theme presented in this article is that the three major religious orientations—Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism—not only fill an important niche as providers of social identity but also have found in the United States an exceptional historical setting
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Exceptionalism · Identity (music · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Religiosity · Religious identity · Sociology · Sociology of religion · Theme (computing · Theology · Vitality · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
The Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism in the Interfaith Movement in the United States
Religiousness and Spirituality
Religion and Violence
Church Attendance in the United States
Religion and the New Immigrants
Dis/location
Latina Empowerment, Border Realities, and Faith-Based Organizations
Beyond the Synagogue Walls
Religion and Health
Escaping the Procustean Bed
Historicizing the Secularization Debate
Studying Religion, Making it Sociological
Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent
The Dynamics of Religious Economies
The Ritual Roots of Society and Culture
Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere
Mapping the Moral Order
Religion and Political Behavior
“Worldly” or “Other Worldly”?
Religion and Spirituality
Demographic Methods for the Sociology of Religion
In Rhetoric and Practice
The Sociology of Religion in Late Modernity
The Evolution of the Sociology of Religion
Social Forms of Religion and Religions in Contemporary Global Society
Religious Voting in Western Democracies
Religious Socialization
Religious Identities and Religious Institutions
Religion, Faith-Based Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Justice
A Journey of the “Straight Way” or the “Roundabout Path”
Exceptional Behavior or Exceptional Identity
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
Pluralism and Piety
Sacred and Secular
Recent Developments and Current Controversies in the Sociology of Religion
The First Faith-Based Movement
A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe
Confucian China and Jeffersonian America
Mobilizing Local Religious Markets
The Religious Factor in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960–1992
Changes in Americans' Strength of Religious Affiliation, 1974-2010
The Direct and Indirect Impact of Religion on Well-Being in Germany
The notion of secularization
The Effects of Education on Americans' Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Affiliations
Errand to the world
Errand into the wilderness
The Origins of American Social Science
Democracy in America
L'exceptionnelle vitalité religieuse aux Etats-Unis
Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of American Socialism
American Pluralism and the Jewish Community
The Caplow
Contrasting Trends in European and American Religion
The World beyond the Hudson
The American Shakers
The Political Context of Sociology
The Consequences of Religious Market Structure
Regulation, Pluralism, and Religious Market Structure
American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History
Fundamentalisms' Compared
Puritan America in the Modern World
American Sociology
From Max Weber
The Politics of Heresy
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2023 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |