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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... organize courses or reading in other ways, this book can be utilized more topically as well, with little violence done to the narrative flow. The following indicates which chapters deal with the principal religious traditions covered ...
... organize courses or reading in other ways, this book can be utilized more topically as well, with little violence done to the narrative flow. The following indicates which chapters deal with the principal religious traditions covered ...
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... organized form, creates normative patterns and expectations to which individual members are expected to conform. Although groupings such as “civil religion” and “the New Age” strain the definitions of community, they nevertheless have ...
... organized form, creates normative patterns and expectations to which individual members are expected to conform. Although groupings such as “civil religion” and “the New Age” strain the definitions of community, they nevertheless have ...
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... organized system, characterized by practices of African origins such as ritual dancing, trance possessions, and sacrifices. However, as its influence spread beyond into the rural South, it lost much of its coherence and disintegrated ...
... organized system, characterized by practices of African origins such as ritual dancing, trance possessions, and sacrifices. However, as its influence spread beyond into the rural South, it lost much of its coherence and disintegrated ...
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... organized religions, at specific times and places in public. The physical setting for public worship bears several names: Shul—“school” or “house of study,” a traditional Yiddish term; Synagogue—probably most familiar, originally ...
... organized religions, at specific times and places in public. The physical setting for public worship bears several names: Shul—“school” or “house of study,” a traditional Yiddish term; Synagogue—probably most familiar, originally ...
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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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