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America's Religious History

Author : Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310586186
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book America's Religious History written by Thomas S. Kidd and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, race, and American history. America's Religious History is an up-to-date, narrative-based introduction to the unique role of faith in American history. Moving beyond present-day polemics to understand the challenges and nuances of our religious past, leading historian Thomas S. Kidd interweaves religious history and key events from the larger story of American history, including: The Great Awakening The American Revolution Slavery and the Civil War Civil rights and church-state controversy Immigration, religious diversity, and the culture wars Useful for both classroom and personal study, America's Religious History provides a balanced, authoritative assessment of how faith has shaped American life and politics.

American Religious History [3 volumes]

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1613 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Religious History [3 volumes] written by Gary Scott Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 1613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mix of thematic essays, reference entries, and primary source documents covering the role of religion in American history and life from the colonial era to the present. Often controversial, religion has been an important force in shaping American culture. Religious convictions strongly influenced colonial and state governments as well as the United States as a new republic. Religious teachings, values, and practices deeply affected political structures and policies, economic ideology and practice, educational institutions and instruction, social norms and customs, marriage, and family life. By analyzing religion's interaction with American culture and prominent religious leaders and ideologies, this reference helps readers to better understand many fascinating, often controversial, religious leaders, ideas, events, and topics. The work is organized in three volumes devoted to particular periods. Volume one includes a chronology highlighting key events related to religion in American history and an introduction that overviews religion in America during the period covered by the volume, and roughly 10 essays that explore significant themes. These essays are followed by approximately 120 alphabetically arranged reference entries providing objective, fundamental information about topics related to religion in America. Each volume presents nearly 50 primary source documents, each introduced by a contextualizing headnote. A selected, general bibliography closes volume three.

American Religious History

Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470692812
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book American Religious History written by Amanda Porterfield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.

Retelling U.S. Religious History

Author : Thomas A. Tweed
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917987
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Retelling U.S. Religious History written by Thomas A. Tweed and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection marks a turning point in the study of the history of American religions. In challenging the dominant paradigm, Thomas A. Tweed and his coauthors propose nothing less than a reshaping of the way that American religious history is understood, studied, and taught. The range of these essays is extraordinary. They analyze sexual pleasure, colonization, gender, and interreligious exchange. The narrators position themselves in a number of geographical sites, including the Canadian border, the American West, and the Deep South. And they discuss a wide range of groups, from Pueblo Indians and Russian Orthodox to Japanese Buddhists and Southern Baptists.

The Religious History of American Women

Author : Catherine A. Brekus
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807867990
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)

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Book Synopsis The Religious History of American Women by : Catherine A. Brekus

Download or read book The Religious History of American Women written by Catherine A. Brekus and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles door to door; Sally Priesand, a Reform rabbi; Estela Ruiz, who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary--how do these women's stories change our understanding of American religious history and American women's history? In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how considering the religious history of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. Covering a variety of topics--including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, everyday religious life, Puritanism, African American women's activism, and the Enlightenment--the volume enhances our understanding of both religious history and women's history. Taken together, these essays sound the call for a new, more inclusive history. Contributors: Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago Divinity School Anthea D. Butler, University of Rochester Emily Clark, Tulane University Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University Janet Moore Lindman, Rowan University Susanna Morrill, Lewis and Clark College Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana College Pamela S. Nadell, American University Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon Marilyn J. Westerkamp, University of California, Santa Cruz

Critical Issues in American Religious History

Author : Robert R. Mathisen
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 1932792392
Total Pages : 821 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Critical Issues in American Religious History written by Robert R. Mathisen and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans as a religious people experience both tension and indecision as they wrestle with a variety of critical issues every day. American society continually struggles with its religious past. The primary and secondary materials included in this volume track religious America's efforts to articulate its identity and destiny and implement its religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society.

New Directions in American Religious History

Author : Harry S. Stout
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019511213X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in American Religious History written by Harry S. Stout and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays had their origin in a conference of the same title held in October 1993. Scholars reflect on their specialities in American religious history in ways that summarise where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come.

A Companion to American Religious History

Author : Benjamin E. Park
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119583667
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Religious History written by Benjamin E. Park and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays exploring the history of the various American religious traditions and the meaning of their many expressions The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History explores the key events, significant themes, and important movements in various religious traditions throughout the nation’s history from pre-colonization to the present day. Original essays written by leading scholars and new voices in the field discuss how religion in America has transformed over the years, explore its many expressions and meanings, and consider religion’s central role in American life. Emphasizing the integration of religion into broader cultural and historical themes, this wide-ranging volume explores the operation of religion in eras of historical change, the diversity of religious experiences, and religion’s intersections with American cultural, political, social, racial, gender, and intellectual history. Each chronologically-organized chapter focuses on a specific period or event, such as the interactions between Moravian and Indigenous communities, the origins of African-American religious institutions, Mormon settlement in Utah, social reform movements during the twentieth century, the growth of ethnic religious communities, and the rise of the Religious Right. An innovative historical genealogy of American religious traditions, the Companion: Highlights broader historical themes using clear and compelling narrative Helps teachers expose their students to the significance and variety of America’s religious past Explains new and revisionist interpretations of American religious history Surveys current and emerging historiographical trends Traces historical themes to contemporary issues surrounding civil rights and social justice movements, modern capitalism, and debates over religious liberties Making the lessons of American religious history relevant to a broad range of readers, The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History is the perfect book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in American history courses, and a valuable resource for graduate students and scholars wanting to keep pace with current historiographical trends and recent developments in the field.

New Worlds

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183747
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book New Worlds written by John Lynch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the centuries passed. As attentive to modern times as to the colonial period, Lynch also explores the extent to which Indian religion and ancestral ways survived within the new Christian culture.The book follows the development of religious culture over time by focusing on peak periods of change: the response of religion to the Enlightenment, the emergence of the Church from the wars of independence, the Romanization of Latin American religion as the papacy overtook the Spanish crown in effective control of the Church, the growing challenge of liberalism and the secular state, and in the twentieth century, military dictators' assaults on human rights. Throughout the narrative, Lynch develops a number of special themes and topics. Among these are the Spanish struggle for justice for Indians, the Church's position on slavery, the concept of popular religion as distinct from official religion, and the development of liberation theology.

African American Religious History

Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822324492
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book African American Religious History written by Milton C. Sernett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 2nd edition of the 1985 anthology that examines the religious history of African Americans.

Down in the Valley

Author : Julius H. Bailey
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506408044
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Down in the Valley written by Julius H. Bailey and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American religions constitute a diverse group of beliefs and practices that emerged from the African diaspora brought about by the Atlantic slave trade. Traditional religions that had informed the worldviews of Africans were transported to the shores of the Americas and transformed to make sense of new contexts and conditions. This book explores the survival of traditional religions and how African American religions have influenced and been shaped by American religious history. The text provides an overview of the central people, issues, and events in an account that considers Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Islam, Pentecostal churches, Voodoo, Conjure, Rastafarianism, and new religious movements such as Black Judaism, the Nation of Islam, and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. The book addresses contemporary controversies, including President Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright, and it will be valuable to all students of African American religions, African American studies, sociology of religion, American religious history, the Black Church, and black theology.

Religious Diversity and American Religious History

Author : Walter H. Conser
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319186
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Religious Diversity and American Religious History written by Walter H. Conser and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, Muslim, and Native American traditions. Chapters on religion and the South, religion and gender, indigenous sectarian religious movements, and the metaphysical tradition round out the collection. The contributors examine the past, present, and future of American religion, first orienting readers to historiographic trends and traditions of interpretation in each area, then providing case studies to show their vision of how these areas should be developed. Full of provocative insights into the complexity of American religion, this volume helps us better understand America's religious history and its future challenges and directions.

The Religious History of America

Author : Edwin S. Gaustad
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062467816
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Religious History of America written by Edwin S. Gaustad and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dynamic Account of Religion's Central Role in American History

Major Problems in American Religious History

Author : Patrick Allitt
Publisher : Major Problems in American His
ISBN 13 : 9780495912439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Major Problems in American Religious History written by Patrick Allitt and published by Major Problems in American His. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the [book] introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. [The book] presents a ... selected group of readings in a format that asks students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians and others, and draw their own conclusions"--P. [4] of cover.

A Religious History of the American People

Author : Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300100129
Total Pages : 1220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Religious History of the American People written by Sydney E. Ahlstrom and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century's choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day. Praise for the earlier edition: ?An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language.”?B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World ?The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition.”?Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review ?An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor.”?America ?The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority.”?Christianity Today ?No one writing or thinking hereafter about America's past will be able to ignore Ahlstrom's magisterial account of the religious element.”?American Historical Review

The Politics of American Religious Identity

Author : Kathleen Flake
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863548
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of American Religious Identity written by Kathleen Flake and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism, especially its polygamous family structure. The Smoot hearing ultimately mediated a compromise between Progressive Era Protestantism and Mormonism and resolved the nation's long-standing "Mormon Problem." On a broader scale, Kathleen Flake shows how this landmark hearing provided the occasion for the country--through its elected representatives, the daily press, citizen petitions, and social reform activism--to reconsider the scope of religious free exercise in the new century. Flake contends that the Smoot hearing was the forge in which the Latter-day Saints, the Protestants, and the Senate hammered out a model for church-state relations, shaping for a new generation of non-Protestant and non-Christian Americans what it meant to be free and religious. In addition, she discusses the Latter-day Saints' use of narrative and collective memory to retain their religious identity even as they changed to meet the nation's demands.

The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History

Author : Susan Hill Lindley
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664224547
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History written by Susan Hill Lindley and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History provides an affordable and accessible reference to over 750 outstanding individual women and women's organizations in American religious history.--From publisher description.