Religions of the United States in practice / Colleen McDannell, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDannell, Colleen.

Series:

Princeton readings in religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Religious life and customs.

United States.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]

Summary:

Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in Pentecostal churches to singing Hanukkah songs to debating the ordination of women, Volume 2 explores faith through action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people -- praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while other texts describe more spontaneous religious actions. Because religious practices also take place in the imagination, dreams, visions, and fictional accounts are also included.

Accompanying each primary document is an essay that sets the religious practice in its historical and theological context -- making this volume ideal for classroom use and accessible to any reader. The introductory essays explain the various meanings of religious practices as lived out in churches and synagogues, in parlors and fields, beside rivers, on lecture platforms, and in the streets.

Religions of the United States in Practice offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States. The history of religion in America is more than the story of institutions and famous people. This anthology presents a more nuanced story composed of the everyday actions and thoughts of lay men and women.

"This anthology presents the reader with a rich sampling of the ways in which American religion has been practiced. It implicitly challenges some of the standard temporal and thematic categories through which American religion has been understood. The volumes will be useful as reference works and in courses about American religious history. There is much here that does not appear in standard treatments of the subject." -- Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

Colleen McDannell is Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of History at the University of Utah. She is the author of Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America and The Christian Home in Victorian America: 1840-1900 and a coauthor of Heaven: A History.

Contents:

Praying: Individual and Communal Worship

1. Lucy Smith and Pentecostal Worship in Chicago / Wallace Best 11

2. Lutheran Family Devotions / Betty DeBerg 23

3. The Daily Prayer (Du'a) of Shi'a Isma'ili Muslims / Tazim R. Kassam 32

4. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament / Patricia O'Connell Killen 44

5. The Homemade Passover Haggadah / Vanessa L. Ochs 53

6. Mormon Fast and Testimony Meetings / Jana Kathryn Riess 67

Singing: Songs of Devotion, Praise, and Protest

7. Hanukkah Songs of the 1950s / Dianne Ashton 75

8. Freedom Songs and the Civil Rights Movement / Paul Harvey 90

9. Folk Music in the Catholic Mass / Mark Oppenheimer 103

10. Buddhist Chanting in Soka Gakkai International / Richard Hughes Seager 112

11. Contemporary Christian Worship Music / Julie Ingersoll 121

Teaching: Learning How to Live Correctly

12. Teaching Morality in Race Movies / Judith Weisenfeld 131

13. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Liberal Protestant Teaching / Bernhard Lang 141

14. Reconciling Patriotism and Catholic Devotion: Catholic Children's Literature in Postwar America / Timothy J. Meagher 159

15. Sex and Submission in the Spirit / Peter Gardella 173

16. An Apache Girl's Initiation Feast / Michael D. McNally 194

17. Taking or Receiving the Buddhist Precepts / Richard Hughes Seager 205

Healing: Health, Happiness, and the Miraculous

18. Tongues and Healing at the Azusa Street Revival / Gaston Espinosa 217

19. Navajo Healing Ceremonies / Amanda Porterfield 224

20. The Power of Positive Thinking / Craig R. Prentiss 251

21. Shamanism in the New Age / Gary Laderman 268

22. Jewish Mourning Practices / Vanessa L. Ochs 284

23. The Latter-day Saint Word of Wisdom / Jana Kathryn Riess 297

Imagining: The Unseen World

24. Early Christian Radio and Religious Nostalgia / Philip Goff 305

25. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Making of an American Myth / Craig R. Prentiss 316

26. Spiritual Warfare in the Fiction of Frank Peretti / Peter Gardella 328

27. Charismatic Renewal among Latino Catholics / Manuel A. Vasquez 346

28. Visualizing Chenrezi in American Tibetan Buddhism / Richard Hughes Seager 355

29. The Rite of Baptism in Haitian Vodou / Elizabeth McAlister 362

Persuading: Witnessing, Controversies, and Polemics

30. Millions Now Living Will Never Die / Iain S. Maclean 375

31. Ordaining Women Rabbis / Pamela S. Nadell 389

32. Mother India's Scandalous Swamis / Stephen Prothero 418

33. The Wit and Wisdom of The Door / Michael McClymond 433

34. Battling Spiritism and the Need for Catholic Orthodoxy / Manuel A. Vasquez 449.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0691009988

0691009996

0691010005

0691010013

OCLC:

47160933