Suggestions for Further Reading:

Civil Religion

Albanese, Catherine L. Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion and the New America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977.

_____. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Chicago History of American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Blair, Karin. Meaning in Star Trek. New York: Warner Books, 1979.

Carroll, Peter N. Puritanism and the Wilderness: The Intellectual Significance of the New England Frontier, 1629-1700. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

Cawelti, John G. The Six-Gun Mystique. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green UniversityPopular Press, 1970.

Fuller, Robert C. Alternative Medicine and American Religious Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

_____. Americans and the Unconscious. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Goethals, Gregor T. The TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.

Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens| A Study of the Play Element in Culture. 1938. Reprint. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955. I

Jewett, Robert, and Lawrence, John Shelton. The American Monomyth. 2d ed. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988.

Lewis, R. W. B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

McLuhan, Marshall. The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. 1951. Reprint. Boston: Beacon Press, 1967.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. 3d ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Nelson, John Wiley. Your God is Alive and Well and Appearing in Popular Culture. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976.

Novak, Michael. The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the Amencan Spirit. New York: Basic Books, 1976.

Nye, Russel. The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America. Two Centuries ofAmerican Life Bicentennial Series. New York: Dial Press, 1970.

Reich, Charles A. The Greening of America. New York: Random House, 1970.

Rodman, Gilbert B. Elvis after Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend. New York:Routledge, 1996.

Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Shenk, David, and Silberman, Steve. Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads. New York: Doubleday, Main Street Books, 1994.

Silk, Mark. Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in Amenca. Public Expressions of Religion in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Williams, Peter W. Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective. Rev. ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.