America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first CenturyA classroom perennial and comprehensive guide, America's Religions lays out the background, beliefs, practices, and leaders of the nation's religious movements and denominations. The fourth edition, thoroughly revised and updated by Peter W. Williams, draws on the latest scholarship. In addition to reconsidering the history of America's mainline faiths, it delves into contemporary issues like religion's impact on politics and commerce; the increasingly high profile of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam; Mormonism's entry into the mainstream; and battles over gay marriage and ordination. |
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... European Immigrants 292 chapter 36. American Catholicism: From Ethnic Pluralism to Institutional Unity 292 chapter 37. Eastern Christianity in America 302 chapter 38. Ethnic Diversity and Denominationalism in American Judaism 308 C. Old ...
... European Immigrants 292 chapter 36. American Catholicism: From Ethnic Pluralism to Institutional Unity 292 chapter 37. Eastern Christianity in America 302 chapter 38. Ethnic Diversity and Denominationalism in American Judaism 308 C. Old ...
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... European experience of a family's inhabiting the same town or farm, or even the same house, over several generations, has been rare in this nation. In-migration has frequently been linked with social mobility, a possibility much more ...
... European experience of a family's inhabiting the same town or farm, or even the same house, over several generations, has been rare in this nation. In-migration has frequently been linked with social mobility, a possibility much more ...
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... Europeans, the native peoples of the continent found themselves marginalized and eventually either decimated through ... European colonies in the New World until (officially, at least) the American government outlawed the slave trade in ...
... Europeans, the native peoples of the continent found themselves marginalized and eventually either decimated through ... European colonies in the New World until (officially, at least) the American government outlawed the slave trade in ...
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... European Americans have felt toward other “races.” (Anthropologists today have largely abandoned the idea of race as a viable biocultural category, despite the fact that groups of people do share some common genetic patterns, but they ...
... European Americans have felt toward other “races.” (Anthropologists today have largely abandoned the idea of race as a viable biocultural category, despite the fact that groups of people do share some common genetic patterns, but they ...
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... Europeans. The arrival of the latter was from the first pluralistic as well, with Spanish and French Catholics ... Europe and involuntary migrants from Africa. The interaction of these various groups eventually began to result in a new ...
... Europeans. The arrival of the latter was from the first pluralistic as well, with Spanish and French Catholics ... Europe and involuntary migrants from Africa. The interaction of these various groups eventually began to result in a new ...
Contents
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Early America Europeans Colonials and Traditional Peoples before the Revolution | 105 |
Houses of Worship From Old World to New | 165 |
Religious Community Formation in the New Republic | 177 |
The End of the Frontier and the Rise of the CIty | 243 |
American Judaism | 329 |
The Twentieth Century and Beyond Further Encounters with Modernity and Pluralism | 343 |
Culture Wars and Great Awakenings | 519 |
Further Reading | 539 |
Index | 551 |
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