America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first CenturyA survey of religious traditions practiced in the United States as of 2002, covering the religious histories of Africans, American Indians, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Spanish-speakers, and Asians. Includes definitions and pronunciations of religious terms. |
Contents
Telling Stories | 1 |
The Traditions | 11 |
The Varieties of Native American Religious Life | 12 |
The African Background of New World Religions | 23 |
B The Mediterranean Matrix | 28 |
1 Judaism and the Emergence of Historical Religion | 29 |
From the Religion of the Hebrews to the Restoration of Israel | 36 |
2 Christianity East and West | 47 |
New Religious Movements | 220 |
New World Space and Time Restorationist Millennial and Communitarian Movements | 226 |
New World Revelation Joseph Smith and the Rise of the Mormons | 235 |
The End of the Frontier and the Rise of the City | 243 |
A The Adjustments of Protestantism | 245 |
Protestant Liberalism and the Social Gospel | 255 |
Anglican Renaissance | 264 |
Reactions to Modernity Fundamentalism Holiness Pentecostalism | 269 |
The Roman Catholic Tradition | 55 |
Western Catholicism from the Time of Constantine | 64 |
The Sundering of Western Christendom and the Emergence of the Protestant Traditions | 76 |
The Lutheran Tradition | 77 |
The Anglican Tradition | 86 |
Calvinism and the Reformed Tradition | 94 |
The Radical Reformation and the Anabaptist Tradition | 100 |
Early America Europeans Colonials and Traditional Peoples before the Revolution | 103 |
Colonial Anglicans | 105 |
New England Puritans | 107 |
Presbyterians and Other Reformed Churches | 119 |
The Society of Friends Quakers | 128 |
John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism | 135 |
The Great Awakening and the Baptist Tradition | 139 |
The Origins of Modern Religious Liberalism | 148 |
Anabaptists and Pietists in Pennsylvania | 153 |
Jews and Catholics in Early America | 158 |
Christian Missions to the North American Indians | 163 |
Religious Community Formation in the New Republic | 175 |
A Toward Independence | 177 |
B White Evangelicalism | 181 |
Moral Reform Antislavery and Civil War | 190 |
The Culture of Antebellum Evangelicalism | 199 |
C Alternative Protestant Patterns | 208 |
Religion in the Slave Community | 216 |
Religion in the South | 282 |
European Immigrants | 292 |
Eastern Christianity in America | 302 |
Ethnic Diversity and Denominationalism in American Judaism | 308 |
C Old and New Frontiers | 315 |
Black Nationalism and New Urban Religions | 322 |
Health Wealth and Metaphysics | 328 |
The Twentieth Century Further Encounters with Modernity and Pluralism | 343 |
NeoOrthodoxy and Ecumenism The Foundations of Mainline Protestantism | 345 |
Mainline Protestantism in the Later Twentieth Century | 355 |
Conservative Protestantism Culture and Politics | 375 |
Mormons and the Mainstream | 389 |
Traditions and Structures in the American Jewish Community | 398 |
Jewish Identity and Jewish Culture in TwentiethCentury America | 403 |
Vatican II and the End of the Catholic Ghetto | 414 |
Roman Catholic Education Thought and Culture | 421 |
The Religions of SpanishSpeaking Peoples | 431 |
African American Christianity Eyes on the Prize | 440 |
Islam in the United States | 448 |
Asian Traditions and American Transformations | 457 |
Liberalism Radicalism and Secularism | 477 |
Popular Religion in New Keys | 487 |
Has American Religion Changed during the Past Century? | 503 |
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Common terms and phrases
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