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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Arthur E. Farnsley II, et al. Sacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of American Religion. (The Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 239. $45.00.
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| This book is about the changing fortunes of religious institutions in Indianapolis, from the time of its original plan to the present. Arthur E. Farnsley II, N. J. Demerath, Etan Diamond, Mary L. Mapes, and Elfriede Wedam, two historians and three sociologists, do not have a simple secularization story to tell. Rather, they argue that the Protestant establishment and its singular religious voice has been replaced by a "multicentered" religious landscape, where numerous religious actors and congregations continue to play important, if changed, roles in local and regional expressions of civic life, social uplift, and political life. |
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