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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... active, self-sufficient producers rather than the parasitic wealthy on the one hand or dependent slaves or servants on the other. Populist notes were sounded early on by the followers of that Democratic odd couple, Thomas Jefferson and ...
... active, self-sufficient producers rather than the parasitic wealthy on the one hand or dependent slaves or servants on the other. Populist notes were sounded early on by the followers of that Democratic odd couple, Thomas Jefferson and ...
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... active opposition to “others” is still very much a theme of American life at the turn of the millennium in the realm of public policy issues such as immigration restriction and prayer in the public schools. A final theme that must be ...
... active opposition to “others” is still very much a theme of American life at the turn of the millennium in the realm of public policy issues such as immigration restriction and prayer in the public schools. A final theme that must be ...
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... active feats of imagination to rationalize. Two recent works of scholarship, Edmundo O'Gorman's The Invention of America and Garry Wills's Inventing America, indicate in their convergent titles the intellectual difficulties involved in ...
... active feats of imagination to rationalize. Two recent works of scholarship, Edmundo O'Gorman's The Invention of America and Garry Wills's Inventing America, indicate in their convergent titles the intellectual difficulties involved in ...
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... active, pluralistic cosmos was brought to New World shores by the African emigrants, where it came into contact with the Roman Catholicism of the French, Spanish, and Portuguese masters. For the most part, the Africans regarded this new ...
... active, pluralistic cosmos was brought to New World shores by the African emigrants, where it came into contact with the Roman Catholicism of the French, Spanish, and Portuguese masters. For the most part, the Africans regarded this new ...
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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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