after ww2, families seeked a sense of normalcy, and churches offered that comfort

• catholic vs protestant was still very strong
• in the 50s, church membership rates grew faster than the population

"this book deals with history, politics and culture, because religion is really inseperable from them" - incredibly relavent in modern day as well as the events that were coinsidingly happening aside the religious boom

the years of dark and dreaming → mccarthyism and anti communism

shadows at high noon→

despite moral issues of war and civil rights, the "everyday person" wasn't very affected by these issues and society in itself prospered

signs appearing in heaven→

the 60s were coming into light and world war 2 was fading away into history.

50s considered the last decade of religious modernism, and from the 60s forward postmodern period religion