Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest

The None Zone

Patricia O'Connell Killen, Mark Silk

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN: 9780759115750
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Teología y religión
• Subtopic: Ateísmo

When asked their religious identification, more people answer 'none' in the Pacific Northwest than in any other region of the United States. But this does not mean that the region's religious institutions are without power or that Northwesterners who do attend no place of worship are without spiritual commitments. With no dominant denomination, Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews, adherents of Pacific Rim religious traditions, indigenous groups, spiritual environmentalists, and secularists must vie or sometimes must cooperate with each other to address the regions' pressing economic, environmental, and social issues. One cannot understand this complex region without understanding the fluid religious commitments of its inhabitants. And one cannot understand religion in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska without Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• INTRODUCTION - PATTERNS OF THE PAST, PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE: RELIGION IN THE NONE ZONE
• RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND THE NATION
• CHAPTER ONE - SURVEYING THE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE: HISTORICAL TRENDS AND CURRENT PATTERNS IN OREGON, WASHINGTON, AND ALASKA
• CHAPTER TWO - CONTESTING FOR THE SOUL OF AN UNLIKELY LAND: MAINLINE PROTESTANTS, CATHOLICS, AND REFORM AND CONSERVATIVE JEWS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
• CHAPTER THREE - THE CHURCHING OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: THE RISE OF SECTARIAN ENTREPRENEURS
• CHAPTER FOUR - RELIGIONS OF THE PACIFIC RIM IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
• CHAPTER FIVE - SECULAR BUT SPIRITUAL IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
• CONCLUSION - RELIGIOUS FUTURES IN THE NONE ZONE
• APPENDIX
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• CONTRIBUTORS