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332 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. viii (1960)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0332 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD

Taken together, the articles in this volume are in remarkable agreement on the
main outlines, trends, and problems of religion in the United States today. Their
viewpoint, by design, is naturalistic; that is, they analyze our religious institutions
in much the same way as one might analyze a political party, a corporation, or a
school system. None of them is concerned here with the validity or the character
of the theological discourse or with the relative merits of one or another denomina-
tional view. All of them are concerned, and some of them are a little uneasy,
about the organizational form and the quality of religious observance in our so-
ciety. In general, however, the tone is optimistic, much more optimistic than
would have been anticipated several decades ago. Following the substantive ar-
ticles of this symposium, a final article will examine some of the major themes
which are found in these pages and present them as an interwoven whole.
RICHARD D. LAMBERT

viii

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