American Religious History
Samenvatting
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.
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<p>About the Contributors.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>Part I: Historical Essays.</p>
<p>1. Errand Into the Wilderness. (Perry Miller).</p>
<p>2. Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combination, and American Religious History. (Catherine L. Albanese).</p>
<p>3. Shouting Methodists. (Ann Taves).</p>
<p>4. Protestantism as Establishment. (William R. Hutchison).</p>
<p>5. American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity. (Randall Balmer).</p>
<p>6. Catholicism and American Culture: Strategies for Survival. (Jay P. Dolan).</p>
<p>7. Conservative Judaism. (Gerson D. Cohen).</p>
<p>8. "Introduction," The Faces of Buddhism in America. (Charles S. Prebish).</p>
<p>9. Striving for Muslim Women′s Human Rights Before and Beyond Beijing: An African American Perspective. (Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons).</p>
<p>Part II: Primary Documents.</p>
<p>10. A Model of Christian Charity (1630). (John Winthrop).</p>
<p>11. Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (1637).</p>
<p>12. A Key into the Language of America (1643). (Roger Williams).</p>
<p>13. Poems (1640 1665). (Anne Bradstreet).</p>
<p>14. The Nature of True Virtue (1765). (Jonathan Edwards).</p>
<p>15. Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779). (Thomas Jefferson).</p>
<p>16. The Code of Handsome Lake (Ca.1800). (Edward Cornplanter).</p>
<p>17. What a Revival of Religion Is (1834). (Charles Grandison Finney).</p>
<p>18. The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836). (Jarena Lee).</p>
<p>19. Nature (1836). (Ralph Waldo Emerson).</p>
<p>20. Poems (1863 1864). (Emily Dickinson).</p>
<p>21. The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny (1865). (Orestes Brownson).</p>
<p>22. Our Country′s Place in History (1869). (Isaac M. Wise).</p>
<p>23. Pre–Existence of Our Spirits (1872). (Orson Pratt).</p>
<p>24. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875). (Mary Baker Eddy).</p>
<p>25. A Function of the Social Settlement (1899). (Jane Addams).</p>
<p>26. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). (William James).</p>
<p>27. The Scofield Reference Bible (1909).</p>
<p>28. Christianity and Liberalism (1923). (J. Gresham Machen).</p>
<p>29. From Union Square to Rome (1939). (Dorothy Day).</p>
<p>30. The Future of the American Jew (1948). (Mordecai M. Kaplan).</p>
<p>31. "Foreword," The Sacred Pipe (1953). (Black Elk).</p>
<p>32. "Sunflower Sutra" (1955) and "Kaddish" (1958). (Allen Ginsberg).</p>
<p>33. Nonviolence and Racial Justice (1957). (Martin Luther King, Jr.).</p>
<p>34. God′s Judgment of White America (1963). (Malcolm X).</p>
<p>35. "Preface," The Protestant Establishment (1964): E. Digby Baltzell.</p>
<p>36. Religious Freedom (1966). ( John Courtney Murray).</p>
<p>37. Beyond God the Father (1973). (Mary Daly).</p>
<p>38. Ceremony (1977). (Leslie Marmon Silko).</p>
<p>39. "American Indian Religious Freedom," Public Law 95 341 (1978).</p>
<p>40. Sexism and God–Talk (1983). (Rosemary Radford Ruether).</p>
<p>41. The Voice of Sarah (1990). (Tamar Frankiel).</p>
<p>42. Thoughts Without a Thinker (1995). (Mark Epstein).</p>
<p>43. Active Faith (1996). (Ralph Reed).</p>
<p>Index.</p>

