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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... religious development in one semester, I split the content into several courses, taking the time in each to explain as ... religion, like any other human phenomenon, can only be understood in its full cultural and historical contexts as ...
... religious development in one semester, I split the content into several courses, taking the time in each to explain as ... religion, like any other human phenomenon, can only be understood in its full cultural and historical contexts as ...
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... Religions Section of the American Academy of Religion; and generations of Miami students and colleagues who have made me continually rethink my accounts of the history of religion in the United States. I trust that textual references ...
... Religions Section of the American Academy of Religion; and generations of Miami students and colleagues who have made me continually rethink my accounts of the history of religion in the United States. I trust that textual references ...
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... religious historian might have said, “By religion I mean the Protestant religion, and by the Protestant religion I mean white, middle-class, English-speaking, evangelical Protestants, especially those of Calvinist lineage ...
... religious historian might have said, “By religion I mean the Protestant religion, and by the Protestant religion I mean white, middle-class, English-speaking, evangelical Protestants, especially those of Calvinist lineage ...
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... religious, educational, professional—together with the traditions to which they appealed for authority, had a profound impact on the role that institutional religion was to play in American life. Americans are still arguably the most ...
... religious, educational, professional—together with the traditions to which they appealed for authority, had a profound impact on the role that institutional religion was to play in American life. Americans are still arguably the most ...
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... religion. Some of these emphases—such as, say, African American religion—are susceptible to narrative treatment, whereas others are less so. Is it still possible to present a narrative account of the religious life of the people of the ...
... religion. Some of these emphases—such as, say, African American religion—are susceptible to narrative treatment, whereas others are less so. Is it still possible to present a narrative account of the religious life of the people of the ...
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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America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century Peter W. Williams Limited preview - 2008 |
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