Mission and menace : four centuries of American religious zeal / Robert Jewett ; in collaboration with Ole Wangerin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jewett, Robert

Contributor:

Wangerin, Ole.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Church history.

United States.

Church history.

Physical Description:

xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2008]

Summary:

* Comparable to Howard Zinn's, A People's History of the United States * Includes black and white illustrations

Contents:

Shaping zealous trajectories

Colonial beginnings : the millennial city set upon a hill

God's new Israel : the theocratic experiment and its deflation

The Great Awakening : prelude to the American Revolution

The post-millennial republic: the "new order of the ages"

The second Great Awakening : new denominations, reforms, and the pre-millennial reaction

Millennial crises and the rise of fundamentalism

The Civil War : a conflict over the Bible and millennial mission

Reconstruction and racial violence : religion in cultural captivity

The gilded age and millennial destiny : war, colonialism, and the social Gospel

New diversity : emerging fundamentalism and the world's parliament of religion

Three millennial crusades : disappointment, the Red Scare, and the crisis of fundamentalism

Culture over Christ : acculturation and the decline of mainline churches

The menace of triumphant civil religion

Depression and World War : the rise of religious replacement and escapism

Cold War religion : the celebration of one nation under God

Zealous nationalism overwhelms prophetic realism : civil rights, Vietnam, and the conservative backlash

The political distortion of religion : impeachment and the war against terrorism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-357) and index.

ISBN:

9780800662837

0800662830

9780800662844

0800662849

OCLC:

156832282