Religion et société aux Etats-Unis

07 / 01 / 2013 | Stéphanie LAROQUE | Annie LIM | Edouard DELALANDE
ressources sitographiques, bibliographiques, cinématographiques

Religion and Society in the United States.
Sélection de ressources sitographiques, bibliographiques, cinématographiques

Cette proposition de ressources a été élaborée par des enseignants de LVE et d’HG en section européenne-anglais. Elle offre de nombreuses pistes à exploiter selon le niveau des élèves et en fonction des horaires propres à chaque section.

I/ Ressources web

Données chiffrées, cartes
 The Association of Religious Data Archive www.thearda.com

Données rassemblées par Pennsylvania State University

 The Pew Forum on Religions : U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Religious Affiliation- Diverse and Dynamic, February 2008 www.pewforum.org

 Frise chronologique, programme de la télévision publique PBS www.pbs.org/godinamerica/timeline

 Online survey of an exhibition at the Library of Congress on religion and the founding of American republic très intéressant pour étudier le rôle de la religion dans la constitution de la nation américaine http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html

 Cartographie religieuse des États-Unis et du Canada
www.blogandbud.blogspot.fr/2006/04/us-lacarte-des-religions-aux-etats.html

 Census bureau http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html

Discours politiques
 Ann Romney’s speech, at the Republican convention on August January 28, 2012 www.youtube.com intéressant pour repérer l’influence protestante des valeurs fondamentales américaines

 President Barack Obama Inauguration Speech on January 20, 2009 www.youtube.com

 Ronald Reagan accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Detroit,
July 17, 1980. (discours en annexe)

 M.L.King speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.8 August 1963, www.youtube.com

 JFK’s speech on his religion, September 12, 1960
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16920600

Textes constitutionnels
 US Bill of Rights 1791
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

 US constitutional texts http://www.usconstitution.net

Articles
 Why is faith falling in the US ? (Aug. 2012)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19262884

 Megachurch high may explain their success (Aug. 2012)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/megachurch-high-may-explain-success_n_1813334.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/megachurch-study-big-congregation-worship_n_1811791.html

 Is religion in America in decline ? (Feb. 2007)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/is-religion-in-america-in_b_843801.html

 Article on the legislation placing “In God We Trust” on national currency http://artandhistory.house.gov/highlights.aspx?action=view&intID=390

 Article from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on the presidential pledge of alliegance
http://old.post-gazette.com/nation/20020628undergod0628p3.asp

 Article from The Guardian, May 18, 2002, American Gothic (painting), Grant Wood (1930)

 The End of Christian America, Apr 3, 2009, Newsweek Magazine

 article d’opinion publié dans le Huffington Post sur la place du religieux dans le mouvement des droits civiques http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-wil-gafney-phd/the-civil-rights-movement_b_1317669.html

 Page dédiée à la religion sur le site du Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith

 Box office : le nouveau business de la religion au cinéma (Oct. 2011)
http://www.lesinrocks.com/2011/10/03/cinema/box-office-le-nouveau-business-de-la-religion-au-cinema-118829/

Proposition de ressources

II/ Bibliographie

Ouvrages scientifiques

En Anglais

 HARVEY Paul, GOFF Philip (dir), The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America since 1945, Columbia University Press, 2005

This unique documentary history brings together manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics, memoirs, and poems reflecting the vitality, diversity, and changing nature of religious belief and practice in America since 1945. Covering both the center and the margins of American religious life, these documents reflect the role of religion and theology in the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements as well as in the conservative responses to these. Issues regarding religion and contemporary American culture are explored in documents about the rise of the evangelical movement and the religious right ; the impact of "new" (post-1965) immigrant communities on the religious landscape ; the popularity of alternative, New Age, and non-Western beliefs ; and the relationship between religion and popular culture. The editors conclude with selections exploring major themes of American religious life at the millennium as well as excerpts that speculate on the future of religion in the United States.

 MARSDEN George M., Fundamentalism and American Culture : The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism 1870-1925, New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.

Book Review : http://www.regulafidei.com/book-reviews

 MARSDEN George M., Religion and American Culture, Langage Learning, 2001

Religion and american culture focuses on the relationship of religion to the social and cultural dynamics of American history. Because most survey texts provide only brief coverage of this topic, Marsden’s narrative is designed to explore the role of religion in American culture.

 MERRIMAN Scott A., Religion and the Law in America : An Encyclopedia of Personal Belief and Public Policy, Abc-Clio, 2007

 REDDICK, Lawrence D., Crusader without Violence : A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Harper, 1959.

 ROBERTS Jon H., Darwinism and the Divine in America : Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859-1900. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
Book Review : http://www.regulafidei.com/book-reviews

 WALD Kenneth D. , CALHOUN-BROWN Allison, Religion and Politics in the United States, 6th ed, Rowman&Littlefield publishers Inc, 2011

En français

 FATH Sébastien, Dieu Bénisse l’Amérique. La religion de la Maison-Blanche, Seuil, 2004

 FATH Sébastien, Militants de la Bible aux Etats-Unis. Evangéliques et fondamentalistes du Sud, Autrement, 2004.

 FROIDEVEAUX-METTERIE Camille, Politique et Religion aux Etats-Unis, Ed. La Découverte, 2009.

Sources et œuvres littéraires

 KENNEDY Douglas, In God’s Country, November 2011

 ROTH Philipp, Indignation, 2010,
description de la vie d’une université dans le Middle West des années 50, où la religion tient une place fondamentale.

The American novel : Religion’s role in the novel
Article citant les romans et les auteurs parlant de la religion dans la société américaine.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/ideas/crisis_article.html

III/ Films, documentaires, musique

Films, documentaires, télévision

Dead Man Walking (1995) Tim Robbins

Crimes and Misedemeaners (1989) Woody Allen

La série 7th Heaven (1996-2007), centrée sur une famille protestante très pratiquante, et par ailleurs mièvre et de peu d’intérêt pour une exploitation en classe de terminale, offre toutefois, par son existence et son succès même, une piste de réflexion.

La pièce de Jerome Lawrence et Robert E. Lee Inherit the Wind, à propos du « Monkey Trial », et ses adaptations cinématographiques, notamment Monkey Trial, Stanley Kramer, 1960, permettent, à travers ce procès, de réfléchir à l’enseignement de la théorie de l’évolution, et ainsi aborder le rapport de certains groupes religieux américains à la science (mouvement créationniste).

Cf aussi http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/index.html ,

Jesus Camp (2006)
American documentary film directed by Rachel Grady Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a charismatic Christian charismatic Christian summer camp, where children spend their summers learning and practicing their prophetic gifts and being taught that they “take back America for Christ.” According to the distributor, it "doesn’t come with any prepackaged point of view" and tries to be "an honest and impartial depiction of one faction of the evangelical Christian community".

God in America (2010)
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/view/

Chanson

Jesus he knows me (1991), Genesis album We Can’t Dance : une critique du téléévangélisme.

ANNEXE

"Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Detroit," Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.

« [The republican party is] a party ready to build a new consensus with all those across the land who share a community of values embodied in these words : family, work, neighborhood, peace and freedom. […]

Three hundred and sixty years ago, in 1620, a group of families dared to cross a mighty ocean to build a future for themselves in a new world. When they arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, they formed what they called a "compact" ; an agreement among themselves to build a community and abide by its laws. […]

Tonight, let us dedicate ourselves to renewing the American compact. I ask you not simply to "Trust me," but to trust your values—our values—and to hold me responsible for living up to them. […] I ask you to trust that American spirit which knows no ethnic, religious, social, political, regional, or economic boundaries ; the spirit that burned with zeal in the hearts of millions of immigrants from every corner of the Earth who came here in search of freedom. […]

Some say that spirit no longer exists. But I have seen it—I have felt it—all across the land ; in the big cities, the small towns and in rural America. The American spirit is still there, ready to blaze into life if you and I are willing to do what has to be done ; […]

I ask you tonight to volunteer your help in this cause so we can carry our message throughout the land. […] Can we doubt that only a Divine Providence placed this land, this island of freedom, here as a refuge for all those people in the world who yearn to breathe freely ?

I’ll confess that I’ve been a little afraid to suggest what I’m going to suggest—I’m more afraid not to—that we begin our crusade joined together in a moment of silent prayer.

God bless America. »

Auteurs de l’article

  • Stéphanie LAROQUE, professeure d’histoire-géographie – DNL-anglais, lycée Hector Berlioz, Vincennes
  • Annie LIM, professeure d’anglais, lyéce Hector Berlioz, Vincennes
  • Edouard DELALANDE, professeure d’histoire-géographie – DNL-anglais, lycée Gastion Bachelard, Chelles