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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... beliefs, practices, and organizational structures as well as their origins and development. In my own courses, I have chosen not to begin with 1492 (or 1620, or whenever) and move forward with one narrative; in the introduction to this ...
... beliefs, practices, and organizational structures as well as their origins and development. In my own courses, I have chosen not to begin with 1492 (or 1620, or whenever) and move forward with one narrative; in the introduction to this ...
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... belief, practice, and governance, Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians were, after all, cousins, united in having shaped a great nation based on principles, such as democracy and the work ethic, that were firmly Protestant in origin ...
... belief, practice, and governance, Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians were, after all, cousins, united in having shaped a great nation based on principles, such as democracy and the work ethic, that were firmly Protestant in origin ...
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... beliefs, and practices as part of the larger cultural “baggage” that every society generates and carries along as it ... belief, action, and even feeling that governs their existence not only on special occasions but in everyday life as ...
... beliefs, and practices as part of the larger cultural “baggage” that every society generates and carries along as it ... belief, action, and even feeling that governs their existence not only on special occasions but in everyday life as ...
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... beliefs but differed on matters of worship and organization. Eventually, however, other traditions, such as Catholic ... belief, as well as any practice that does not conflict with other civil goods. The implications and limits of this ...
... beliefs but differed on matters of worship and organization. Eventually, however, other traditions, such as Catholic ... belief, as well as any practice that does not conflict with other civil goods. The implications and limits of this ...
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... populism. Populism is the belief that the moral as well as the economic, social, and political core of American society subsists in the middle ranks — “the middling sorts,” as they were known in the nineteenth century — who 8 introduction.
... populism. Populism is the belief that the moral as well as the economic, social, and political core of American society subsists in the middle ranks — “the middling sorts,” as they were known in the nineteenth century — who 8 introduction.
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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