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History of Religion in the United States » Read Now
by Clifton E. Olmstead. 628 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...study of American religious history. The result...of national religious life and thought...traces the history of American religion from...Guide for American Church History...
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Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States » Read Now
by Charles H. Lippy. 284 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Popular religion rarely expresses itself in the artifacts of "high" culture. In this book, Lippy approaches the study of popular religion by asking how ordinary people have gone about the process of being religious in America. Along the way, he examines popular religious periodicals, newspapers...
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Popular religion rarely expresses itself in the artifacts of "high" culture. In this book, Lippy approaches the study of popular religion by asking how ordinary people have gone about the process of being religious in America. Along the way, he examines popular religious periodicals, newspapers, novels, diaries, devotional materials, hymnals, promotional materials for revivals and camp meetings, religious tracts, as well as vernacular art and architecture, other artifacts, and, especially in the 20th century, radio, film, and television. He avoids the traditional focus on religious movements and institutions, choosing instead to illuminate the cultural impact of what people in America think and do when they are being religious by highlighting aspects of private life.
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New Directions in American Religious History » Read Now
by Harry S. Stout, D. G. Hart. 502 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

The eighteen essays collected in this book had their origin in a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Some of the most distinguished scholars in the field were invited to reflect on their specialities in American religious history in ways that...
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The eighteen essays collected in this book had their origin in a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Some of the most distinguished scholars in the field were invited to reflect on their specialities in American religious history in ways that summarized where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come. Organized according to four general ways of looking at religious history--places and regions, universal themes, transformative events, and marginal groups and ethno-cultural "outsiders"--the essays address a wide range of topics, including Puritanism, religion and the Civil War, Protestantism and economic behavior, gender and sexuality in American Protestantism, and the contemporary de-Christianization of American culture. Featuring contributions from David D. Hall, Donald G. Matthews, Allen C. Guelzo, Gordon S. Wood, Daniel Walker Howe, Robert Wuthnow, Jon Butler, David A. Hollinger, and others, this thought-provoking and up-to-date collection will interest anyone involved in the study of American religion and history.
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Critical Issues in American Religious History: A Reader » Read Now
by Robert R. Mathisen. 659 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

On many occasions Americans as a religious people have experienced tension and indecision as they have wrestled with a variety of critical issues crossing their paths. How to implement their religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society is recorded in the religious language of the people...
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On many occasions Americans as a religious people have experienced tension and indecision as they have wrestled with a variety of critical issues crossing their paths. How to implement their religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society is recorded in the religious language of the people as they have sought to articulate their identity and destiny.
Critical Issues in American Religious History identifies fifteen key, chronologically arranged issues that have prompted considerable debate and discussion over the years. The distinctive element of this work is the singular thematic thread which runs from cover to cover: America's religious experience reflects four interrelated dimensions of religious tension. The carefully selected primary and secondary materials speak to the tension between the secular and sacred, beliefs and behaviors, inclusion and exclusion, and conflict and consensus. Each chapter theme is woven around a particular critical issue pertaining to one or more of these four tensions.
Ideally suited for classroom use, Mathisen's work enlarges the reader's critical thinking through an examination of primary and secondary sources of America's religious past. Special features in each chapter include:
-- Introductory commentary
-- Primary and secondary source readings
-- Questions for reflection and discussion
-- Suggested readings for further study
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Native American Religions: An Introduction » Read Now
by John Tully Carmody, Denise Lardner Carmody. 251 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Puritanism in America, 1620-1750 » Read Now
by Everett Emerson. 186 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...cultural, and religious force whose...courtesy of the American Antiquarian...of mans history have been...encouraged Americans to think...in human history. Much...
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The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America » Read Now
by Paul K. Conkin. 330 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...necessary to create a broad, synoptic history, one based on both primary and secondary...European continent and in Britain. In the American colonies, and in the first...
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Standing Against the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in Nineteenth-Century America » Read Now
by Diana Hochstedt Butler. 274 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A surprising revisionist account of the church's first century, it reveals the extent to which evangelical Episcopalians helped to shape the piety, identity, theology, and...
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Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A surprising revisionist account of the church's first century, it reveals the extent to which evangelical Episcopalians helped to shape the piety, identity, theology, and mission of the church. Using the life and career of one of the party's greatest leaders, Charles Pettit McIlvaine, the second bishop of Ohio, Diana Butler blends institutional history with biography to explore the vicissitudes and tribulations of evangelicals in a church that often seemed inhospitable to their version of the Gospel. This gracefully written narrative history of a neglected movement sheds light on evangelical religion within a particular denomination and broadens the interpretation of nineteenth-century American evangelicalism as a whole. In addition, it elucidates such wider cultural and religious issues as the meaning of millennialism and the nature of the crisis over slavery.
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A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History » Read Now
by Albert J. Raboteau. 224 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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The Roman Catholics in America » Read Now
by Patrick W. Carey. 196 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This text provides the student with an historical overview of the people and events that have shaped Roman Catholicism in the United States. It begins with a look at the roots of the American Catholic tradition during the time of Columbus and the arrival of missionaries to the New World. The...
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This text provides the student with an historical overview of the people and events that have shaped Roman Catholicism in the United States. It begins with a look at the roots of the American Catholic tradition during the time of Columbus and the arrival of missionaries to the New World. The chapters that follow trace the history of Catholicism from the colonial period to the present day. Fair minded and informative, this book will be useful to anyone teaching a course on Roman Catholicism or American Religion.
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The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962 » Read Now
by James Terence Fisher. 305 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...in Catholic history, from the burning...argued in Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans , American...self-abnegation in American religious history. She...
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Zion in America: The Jewish Experience from Colonial Times to the Present » Read Now
by Henry L. Feingold. 364 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...superimposed on a religious culture fashioned...distinctive history. Basically...differentiates American Jews from...the role history assigned...Genesis of American...
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Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-Day Saints in American Religion » Read Now
by Philip L. Barlow. 256 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The Mormons have been one of the most studied American religious groups; still, no consensus exists about the essential nature of the movement or its place in American religion. In this study, Barlow analyzes the approaches taken to the Bible by key Mormon leaders, from founder Joseph Smith up to...
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The Mormons have been one of the most studied American religious groups; still, no consensus exists about the essential nature of the movement or its place in American religion. In this study, Barlow analyzes the approaches taken to the Bible by key Mormon leaders, from founder Joseph Smith up to the present day. He shows that Mormon attitudes toward the Bible comprise an extraordinary mix of conservative, liberal, and radical ingredients: an almost fundamentalist adherence to the King James Version of the Bible coexists with belief in the possibility of new revelation and surprising ideas on the limits of human language. Exploring this unique Mormon stance on scripture, Barlow takes important steps toward unraveling the mystery of this quintessential American religious phenomenon.
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History of American Congregationalism » Read Now
by Gaius Glenn Atkins, Frederick L. Fagley. 432 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Congregationalism, but of American religious history generally...INDEX 419 History of American Congregationalism...I The Religious Situation...English temper, religious or...
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Religion & Race: Southern Presbyterians, 1946-1983 » Read Now
by Joel L. Alvis Jr. 198 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...requirements of American National Standard...in the US.--History-- 20th century...relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian...of white religious liberals...Department of...
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Dictionary of Heresy Trials in American Christianity » Read Now
by George H. Shriver. 514 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The first of its kind, this volume presents fifty formal and informal trials of individuals and institutions that have been labeled as heretical. These are challenging stories of ministers, professors, and laypersons who literally risked their careers and lives for their understanding of religious...
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The first of its kind, this volume presents fifty formal and informal trials of individuals and institutions that have been labeled as heretical. These are challenging stories of ministers, professors, and laypersons who literally risked their careers and lives for their understanding of religious truths. From Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson in the colonial period to the latest 1990s casualties in the Southern Baptist Convention, trials from all major periods in American History and from all the major denominations are presented by leading scholars in the study of religious history. Of interest to scholars, students, and the general religious public.
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