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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... emerge from nothingness or some primordial condition of existence into the mundane world. For both the Navajo and the Zuni, for example, the original inhabitants of the world emerged from underground. In other versions, the Earth Diver ...
... emerge from nothingness or some primordial condition of existence into the mundane world. For both the Navajo and the Zuni, for example, the original inhabitants of the world emerged from underground. In other versions, the Earth Diver ...
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... emerged in French colonial Haiti and that has subsequently coexisted with Catholicism as the dominant religion of that nation to the present day. Its career in Haiti, where it had been an illicit folk religion for most of its existence ...
... emerged in French colonial Haiti and that has subsequently coexisted with Catholicism as the dominant religion of that nation to the present day. Its career in Haiti, where it had been an illicit folk religion for most of its existence ...
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... emergence. of. historical. religion. chapter. 3. The. Jewish. Tradition. Judaism, even more than most religions, is intended to be lived rather than simply believed or accepted. Certainly most religions teach that their precepts must be ...
... emergence. of. historical. religion. chapter. 3. The. Jewish. Tradition. Judaism, even more than most religions, is intended to be lived rather than simply believed or accepted. Certainly most religions teach that their precepts must be ...
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... emerged over the centuries. After the Temple disappeared as the focus of Jewish worship, the role of the priest, who conducted cultic sacrifices therein, became obsolete. In place of the priest emerged the rabbi, or “teacher,” who has ...
... emerged over the centuries. After the Temple disappeared as the focus of Jewish worship, the role of the priest, who conducted cultic sacrifices therein, became obsolete. In place of the priest emerged the rabbi, or “teacher,” who has ...
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... emerged as a primary sign of holiness of life for the observant Jew. The operative everyday word here is kosher, which means ritually clean and fit to eat. (In its broader contemporary sense, it also is used informally by Jews and ...
... emerged as a primary sign of holiness of life for the observant Jew. The operative everyday word here is kosher, which means ritually clean and fit to eat. (In its broader contemporary sense, it also is used informally by Jews and ...
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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