Sacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of American Religion

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211 NOTES 1. introduction 1. Stephen Goldsmith, ‘‘Providing Social Services: The Role of Church and Synagogue ,’’ speech to the Columbia School of Law, March 12, 1998. 2. Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000). 3. Nancy T. Ammerman, ‘‘Bowling Together: Congregations and the American Civic Order,’’ University Lecture in Religion, Arizona State University, 1996. 4. Mark Chaves, ‘‘Secularization as Declining Religious Authority,’’ Social Forces 72, no. 3 (March 1994): 749–74. 5. John Kretzmann and John McKnight, Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path toward Finding and Mobilizing Community Assets (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 1997). 6. For more information, see the brief methodological appendix or view both methodological information and the data itself at: www.thepoliscenter.iupui.edu. 7. Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1929); idem, Middletown in Transition (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1935). For the experience of yet another Hoosier city, see James Lewis, The Protestant Experience in Gary, Indiana, 1906–1975 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992). 212 notes to pages 11–36 8. Robert Orsi, ed., Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999). Other urban religion books that shaped our thinking include Harvey Cox, The Secular City (New York: Macmillan, 1965); idem, Religion in the Secular City (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984); and, more recently, Lowell Livezey, ed., Public Religion and Urban Transformation (New York: NYU Press, 2000). 9. Martin Bradley et al., Churches and Church Membership in the U.S. 1990: An Enumeration by Region, State and County Based on Data Reported for 133 Church Groupings (Atlanta, Ga.: Glenmary Research Center, 1992). 2. the circle city on the plains 1. Post-War Planning Committee, The Post War Plan for Indianapolis (Indianapolis, Ind.: Post-War Planning Committee, 1944), p. 12. 2. Robert Fishman, ‘‘Megalopolis Unbound: America’s New City,’’ Wilson Quarterly 16 (Winter 1990): 24–45. 3. Charles Leven, ‘‘Distance, Space, and the Organisation of Urban Life,’’ Urban Studies 28 (1991): 319–25. 4. Kevin Lynch, The Image of a City (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1960). 5. Seminal articles that influenced our understanding of urban alignment include Louis Wirth’s classic ‘‘Urbanism as a Way of Life,’’ American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 3–24, and Claude Fischer’s ‘‘Ambivalent Communities: How Americans Understand Their Localities,’’ in Alan Wolfe, ed., America at Century’s End (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991). 6. David Bodenhamer and Robert Barrows, Encyclopedia of Indianapolis (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1994), Appendix 3, Table 36. 7. ‘‘Consumer Analysis of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Market’’ (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Newspapers, 1957), 19. 8. Homer Hoyt Associates, ‘‘Market Survey of the Meadows, 38th and Rural Streets, Indianapolis, Indiana, for Leo A. Lippman’’ (New York: Homer Hoyt Associates , September 1952), 2–3, 6. 9. Richard Hebert, Highways to Nowhere: The Politics of City Transportation (New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1972). 10. Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). 11. ‘‘Gregory & Appel, Inc.,’’ Bank Notes 7 (December 1952): 4. 12. Indianapolis News, July 11, 1941. 13. Bureau of the Census, Table 27: Composition of the Rural-Farm Population, by Counties: 1940; Table 49: Characteristics of the Rural-Farm Population, for Counties : 1950. 14. Indianapolis Star Magazine, December 29, 1957. 15. Indianapolis Star, March 10, 1940. 16. Indianapolis Times, March 25, 1962. 17. Jon Teaford, City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850–1970 (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979). 18. Indianapolis Star, November 24, 1968. 19. Indianapolis Star, November 28, 1968; December 29, 1968. 20. William Blomquist, ‘‘Unigov and Political Participation,’’ in Bodenhamer and Barrows, Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, 1355–58. 21. ‘‘Indianapolis for Journalists: Unigov,’’ http://www.indy.org/unigov.htm (accessed April 8, 1998); William Hudnut, Indianapolis: Past, Present and Future (Philadelphia : Newcomen Society, 1986). 213 notes to pages 37–62 22. Blomquist, ‘‘Unigov and Political Participation.’’ 23. Randy Roberts, ‘‘Sports,’’ in Bodenhamer and Barrows, Encyclopedia of Indianapolis , 182–88. 3. religious civility, civil religion 1. Indianapolis News, June 12, 1915. 2. Indianapolis Star, August 14, 1990. 3. David O’Brien, Public Catholicism (New York: Macmillan, 1989), 2. 4. Carl Smith, Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). 5. David Bodenhamer and Robert...