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America's religions : from their origins to the twenty-first century
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- Creator
- Peter W. Williams
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- Language
- English
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- [Second edition]
- Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 601 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780252066825, 0252066820, 9780252026638, 0252026632
- OCLC
- ocm45799630
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-569) and index.
- Introduction: Telling Stories -- Pt. 1. The Traditions. A. Oral Traditions. Ch. 1. The Varieties of Native American Religious Life. Ch. 2. The African Background of New World Religions. B. The Mediterranean Matrix. Ch. 3. The Jewish Tradition. Ch. 4. From the Religion of the Hebrews to the Restoration of Israel. Ch. 5. The Eastern Orthodox Tradition. Ch. 6. The Roman Catholic Tradition. Ch. 7. Western Catholicism from the Time of Constantine. C. The Reformation Era: The Sundering of Western Christendom and the Emergence of the Protestant Traditions. Ch. 8. The Lutheran Tradition. Ch. 9. The Anglican Tradition. Ch. 10. Calvinism and the Reformed Tradition. Ch. 11. The Radical Reformation and the Anabaptist Tradition -- Pt. 2. Early America: Europeans, Colonials, and Traditional Peoples Before the Revolution. Ch. 12. Colonial Anglicans. Ch. 13. New England Puritans. Ch. 14. Presbyterians and Other Reformed Churches. Ch. 15. The Society of Friends (Quakers). Ch. 16. John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism. Ch. 17. The Great Awakening and the Baptist Tradition. Ch. 18. The Origins of Modern Religious Liberalism. Ch. 19. Anabaptists and Pietists in Pennsylvania. Ch. 20. Jews and Catholics in Early America. Ch. 21. Christian Missions to the North American Indians -- Pt. 3. Religious Community Formation in the New Republic. A. Toward Independence. Ch. 22. The Revolution and the Constitution. B. White Evangelicalism. Ch. 23. The Second Great Awakening(s). Ch. 24. Moral Reform, Antislavery, and Civil War. Ch. 25. The Culture of Antebellum Evangelicalism. C. Alternative Protestant Patterns. Ch. 26. Liturgical Protestantism: Lutherans and Episcopalians in Changing Worlds. Ch. 27. Religion in the Slave Community. D. "Freedom's Ferment": New Religious Movements. Ch. 28. Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and Universalism. Ch. 29. New World Space and Time: Restorationist, Millennial, and Communitarian Movements. Ch. 30. New World Revelation: Joseph Smith and the Rise of the Mormons -- Pt. 4. The End of the Frontier and the Rise of the City. A. The Adjustments of Protestantism. Ch. 31. Victorian Evangelicals. Ch. 32. Protestant Liberalism and the Social Gospel. Ch. 33. Anglican Renaissance. Ch. 34. Reactions to Modernity: Fundamentalism, Holiness, Pentecostalism. Ch. 35. Religion in the South. B. Traditions in Transition: European Immigrants. Ch. 36. American Catholicism: From Ethnic Pluralism to Institutional Unity. Ch. 37. Eastern Christianity in America. Ch. 38. Ethnic Diversity and Denominationalism in American Judaism. C. Old and New Frontiers. Ch. 39. Native American New Religions. Ch. 40. Black Nationalism and New Urban Religions. Ch. 41. Health, Wealth, and Metaphysics -- Pt. 5. The Twentieth Century: Further Encounters with Modernity and Pluralism. Ch. 42. Neo-Orthodoxy and Ecumenism: The Foundations of "Mainline" Protestantism. Ch. 43. "Mainline" Protestantism in the Later Twentieth Century. Ch. 44. Conservative Protestantism: Culture and Politics. Ch. 45. Mormons and the "Mainstream" Ch. 46. Traditions and Structures in the American Jewish Community. Ch. 47. Jewish Identity and Jewish Culture in Twentieth-Century America. Ch. 48. Vatican II and the End of the Catholic "Ghetto" Ch. 49. Roman Catholic Education, Thought, and Culture. Ch. 50. The Religions of Spanish-Speaking Peoples. Ch. 51. African American Christianity: "Eyes on the Prize" Ch. 52. Islam in the United States. Ch. 53. Asian Traditions and American Transformations. Ch. 54. Liberalism, Radicalism, and Secularism. Ch. 55. Popular Religion in New Keys -- Conclusion: Has American Religion Changed during the Past Century?