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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... continued to bring to the United States large numbers of adherents of religious traditions, such as Islam and Hinduism, which had previously been represented in religious narratives as footnotes or afterthoughts. Third, a growing ...
... continued to bring to the United States large numbers of adherents of religious traditions, such as Islam and Hinduism, which had previously been represented in religious narratives as footnotes or afterthoughts. Third, a growing ...
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... continued to share this common cultural seedbed while each developed in parallel ways democratic polities, capitalist economies, imperialistic foreign policies, and both evangelical and liberal versions of religion. Pluralistic as ...
... continued to share this common cultural seedbed while each developed in parallel ways democratic polities, capitalist economies, imperialistic foreign policies, and both evangelical and liberal versions of religion. Pluralistic as ...
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... continued through the fusions of Indian and Christian themes in the Peyote religion of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because of this remarkable cultural and religious diversity stretched over both space and time, it is ...
... continued through the fusions of Indian and Christian themes in the Peyote religion of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because of this remarkable cultural and religious diversity stretched over both space and time, it is ...
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... continued indefinitely, Native peoples reacted in a number of ways. A substantial number simply died, killed by the epidemic diseases introduced by Europeans against which they had no immunity. Others engaged with Christianity, a ...
... continued indefinitely, Native peoples reacted in a number of ways. A substantial number simply died, killed by the epidemic diseases introduced by Europeans against which they had no immunity. Others engaged with Christianity, a ...
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... continued smoothly. These priests could also acquire considerable political power and reputation. Just as these divinities represented practical concerns in the midst of everyday life, so were the ancestors of a particular people ...
... continued smoothly. These priests could also acquire considerable political power and reputation. Just as these divinities represented practical concerns in the midst of everyday life, so were the ancestors of a particular people ...
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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