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America's religions : from their origins to the twenty-first century / Peter W. Williams.

Van Pelt Library BL2525 .W485 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Williams, Peter W.
Contributor:
John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States--Religion.
United States.
Religion.
Physical Description:
xvi, 588 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition:
Fourth Edition.
Place of Publication:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Summary:
A classroom perennial and essential reference, America's Religions lays out the background, beliefs, practices, and leaders of the nation's religious movements and denominations. The fourth edition, thoroughly revised and updated by Peter W. Williams, draws on the latest scholarship. In addition to reconsidering the history of America's mainline faiths, it delves into contemporary issues like religion's impact on politics and commerce; the increasingly high profile of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam; Mormonism's entry into the mainstream; and battles over gay marriage and ordination. Book jacket.
Contents:
Part I The Traditions 13
A Oral Traditions 13
Chapter 1 The Varieties of Native American Religious Life 14
Chapter 2 The African Background of New World Religions 25
B The Mediterranean Matrix 30
1 Judaism and the Emergence of Historical Religion 31
Chapter 3 The Jewish Tradition 31
Chapter 4 From the Religion of the Hebrews to the Restoration of Israel 39
2 Christianity East and West 50
Chapter 5 The Eastern Orthodox Tradition 50
Chapter 6 The Roman Catholic Tradition 58
Chapter 7 Western Catholicism from the Time of Constantine 67
C The Reformation Era: The Sundering of Western Christendom and the Emergence of the Protestant Traditions 78
Chapter 8 The Lutheran Tradition 79
Chapter 9 The Anglican Tradition 88
Chapter 10 Calvinism and the Reformed Tradition 96
Chapter 11 The Radical Reformation and the Anabaptist Tradition 102
Part II Early America: Europeans, Colonials, and Traditional Peoples Before the Revolution 105
Chapter 12 Colonial Anglicans 107
Chapter 13 New England Puritans 109
Chapter 14 Presbyterians and Other Reformed Churches 121
Chapter 15 The Society of Friends (Quakers) 130
Chapter 16 John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism 137
Chapter 17 The Great Awakening and the Baptist Tradition 141
Chapter 18 The Origins of Modern Religious Liberalism 150
Chapter 19 Anabaptists and Pietists in Pennsylvania 155
Chapter 20 Jews and Catholics in Early America 160
Chapter 21 Christian Missions to the North American Indians 165
Part III Religious Community Formation in the New Republic 177
A Toward Independence 179
Chapter 22 The Revolution and the Constitution 179
B White Evangelicalism 183
Chapter 23 The Second Great Awakening(s) 183
Chapter 24 Moral Reform, Antislavery, and Civil War 192
Chapter 25 The Culture of Antebellum Evangelicalism 200
C Alternative Protestant Patterns 209
Chapter 26 Liturgical Protestantism: Lutherans and Episcopalians in Changing Worlds 209
Chapter 27 Religion in the Slave Community 217
D "Freedoms Ferment": New Religious Movements 221
Chapter 28 Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and Universalism 221
Chapter 29 New World Space and Time: Restorationist, Millennial, and Communitarian Movements 227
Chapter 30 New World Revelation: Joseph Smith and the Rise of the Mormons 236
Part IV The End of the Frontier and the Rise of the City 243
A The Adjustments of Protestantism 245
Chapter 31 Victorian Evangelicals 245
Chapter 32 Protestant Liberalism and the Social Gospel 255
Chapter 33 Anglican Renaissance 264
Chapter 34 Reactions to Modernity: Fundamentalism, Holiness, Pentecostalism 269
Chapter 35 Religion in the South 282
B Traditions in Transition: European Immigrants 292
Chapter 36 American Catholicism: From Ethnic Pluralism to Institutional Unity 292
Chapter 37 Eastern Christianity in America 302
Chapter 38 Ethnic Diversity and Denominationalism in American Judaism 308
C Old and New Frontiers 316
Chapter 39 Native American New Religions 316
Chapter 40 Black Nationalism and New Urban Religions 323
Chapter 41 Health, Wealth, and Metaphysics 329
Part V The Twentieth Century and Beyond Further Encounters With Modernity and Pluralism 343
Chapter 42 Neo-Orthodoxy and Ecumenism: The Foundations of "Mainline" Protestantism 345
Chapter 43 "Mainline" Protestantism in the Twenty-first Century 356
Chapter 44 Conservative Protestantism: Culture and Politics 378
Chapter 45 Mormons and the "Mainstream" 397
Chapter 46 Traditions and Structures in the American Jewish Community 408
Chapter 47 Jewish Identity and Jewish Culture in Modern America 413
Chapter 48 Vatican II and the End of the Catholic "Ghetto" 424
Chapter 49 Roman Catholic Education, Thought, and Culture 433
Chapter 50 The Religions of Spanish-Speaking Peoples 444
Chapter 51 African American Christianity: "Eyes on the Prize" 452
Chapter 52 Islam in the United States 461
Chapter 53 Asian Traditions and American Transformations 471
Chapter 54 Liberalism, Radicalism, and Secularism 491
Chapter 55 Popular Religion in New Keys 501.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
ISBN:
0252081129
9780252039614
0252039610
9780252081125
OCLC:
906295132
Publisher Number:
99965196765

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