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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... began to grown precarious. First, any number of communities founded on identity—whether based on religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation—began to stake a claim for legitimacy and empowerment, sometimes to the exclusion of ...
... began to grown precarious. First, any number of communities founded on identity—whether based on religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation—began to stake a claim for legitimacy and empowerment, sometimes to the exclusion of ...
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... began to result in a new consciousness—political, social, and even religious—of what it meant to live not simply as exiles or emissaries from an old world but rather as residents of a new one. Before long, it involved the adaptation of ...
... began to result in a new consciousness—political, social, and even religious—of what it meant to live not simply as exiles or emissaries from an old world but rather as residents of a new one. Before long, it involved the adaptation of ...
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... began as a collection of oral traditions. For centuries after scripture began to be codified in written form, the vast majority of people even in the West were unable to read, and its preservation and interpretation was entrusted to a ...
... began as a collection of oral traditions. For centuries after scripture began to be codified in written form, the vast majority of people even in the West were unable to read, and its preservation and interpretation was entrusted to a ...
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... began to come into the consciousness of Europeans and European Americans, they immediately began to change through the inevitable cultural contacts—many of them forced—that occurred. In later chapters, the metamorphoses of these ...
... began to come into the consciousness of Europeans and European Americans, they immediately began to change through the inevitable cultural contacts—many of them forced—that occurred. In later chapters, the metamorphoses of these ...
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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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