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American religious traditions : the shaping of religion in the United States / Richard E. Wentz.
Van Pelt Library BL2525 .W27 2003 1 v. + CD-ROM
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wentz, Richard E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion.
- History.
- United States--Religion.
- United States.
- United States--Religion--History.
- United States--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Fortress ; Edinburgh : Alban, 2003.
- Summary:
- Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "full text of the book, chapter summaries, discussion questions, and many web resources ... [and] Libronix software, which offers such features as topic searching, bookmarking, notetaking, and highlighting." -- p. [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Age of Transmission and Reformation 1
- 1. The Study of Religion 3
- Toward a Definition of Religion 6
- Expressions of Religiousness 7
- Categories of Religious Expression 12
- Tradition 14
- 2. Myths, Legends, and the Promised Land 18
- Story 18
- Myth and Legend 20
- European Attitudes toward America 23
- A Promised Land 25
- The Religious Meaning of America 26
- 3. Christendom and the Heritage of Reformation 30
- Christendom 30
- The Development of the Reformation 35
- Aspects of the Reformation 38
- The Reformation in England 45
- 4. The Native American Traditions 50
- Nonliteracy 53
- Common Characteristics 56
- Evolution of Traditions 66
- 5. From Anglicans to Episcopalians 70
- Verbal Expression 72
- Practical Expression 74
- Social Expression 75
- History in the United States 77
- 6. The Puritan Tradition: Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers 84
- Origins of Puritanism 84
- The Stages of Puritan Development 86
- Diversity of Puritanism 89
- Congregationalists 91
- Baptists 98
- Quakers 101
- 7. The Reformed Tradition: The Scotch-Irish and English, the Dutch, and the Germans 106
- Verbal Expression 107
- Practical Expression 110
- Social Expression 112
- History in the United States 114
- 8. The Lutheran Tradition 124
- Verbal Expression 124
- Practical Expression 129
- Social Expression 133
- History in the United States 135
- 9. The Roman Catholic Tradition 142
- The Verbal Expression: Papal Authority 143
- Other Features of Verbal Expression 149
- Practical Expression 152
- Social Expression 157
- History in the United States 159
- 10. The Methodist Tradition 167
- Verbal Expression 170
- Practical Expression 174
- Social Expression 178
- Methodist Diversity 180
- History in the United States 183
- Part 2 Restructuring, New Beginnings, and Preservations 187
- 11. The Revivalist Evangelical Tradition 189
- Basics of Revivalistic Evangelicalism 190
- The Great Awakening 194
- A New American Spirit 199
- Focuses of Later Revivalism 201
- History of Modern Revivalism 204
- 12. The Public Religious Tradition 209
- Verbal Expression 211
- Practical Expression 217
- Social Expression 223
- A Typically American Problem 227
- 13. The Restorationist Traditions: Christians to Latter-Day Saints 229
- The Restorationist Position 230
- Democratic Christianism 232
- Biblicist and Rationalist Christianism 235
- Radical Dispensationalism: Mormonism 240
- 14. The Jewish Tradition in America 254
- Origins of the Jewish Way 256
- Torah 260
- Practical Expression 263
- Social Expression 270
- Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative Jews 271
- 15. The Eastern Orthodox Tradition 278
- Definition of Eastern Orthodoxy 279
- Verbal Expression 280
- Practical Expression 285
- Social Expression 292
- History in the United States 293
- 16. The African American Traditions 296
- Indigenous Heritage 297
- Practical Expression 304
- Institutional History in the United States 308
- Phenomenon of the Preacher 313
- 17. New Traditions for the Common People: Millenarian, Holiness, and Pentecostal Traditions 315
- Origins 317
- Millenarianism 317
- The Holiness Movement 326
- Pentecostalism 328
- 18. Religion and the Crisis of Authority 332
- Postbellum Modernity 334
- The New Liberalism 338
- The Social Gospel 342
- New Thought 345
- Positive Thinking 347
- 19. The Fundamentalist and Neo-Evangelical Traditions 351
- What Is Fundamentalism? 351
- Verbal Expression 354
- Development of Neo-Evangelicalism 365
- The Neo-Evangelicalism of Billy Graham 366
- 20. The Age of Radical Pluralism 369
- A New Pluralism 370
- The Ways of the Hindus 372
- Buddhism in America 378
- New Thought and the New Age 389
- Islam in America Today 390
- The Reshaping of American Religion 397.
- Notes:
- Previous ed. published under title Religion in the New World.
- ISBN:
- 0800636163
- OCLC:
- 53905510
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