Religious outsiders and the making of Americans / R. Laurence Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, R. Laurence (Robert Laurence), 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious pluralism--United States.

Religious pluralism.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 243 pages.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In light of the curious compulsion to stress Protestant dominance in America's past, this book takes an unorthodox look at religious history in America. Rather than focusing on the usual mainstream Protestant churches--Episcopal, Congregationalist, Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran--Moore instead turns his attention to the equally important "outsiders" in the American religious experience and tests the realities of American religious pluralism against their history in America. Through separate but interrelated chapters on seven influential groups of "outsiders"--the Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists, Millennialists, 20th-century Protestant Fundamentalists, and the African-American churches--Moore shows that what was going on in mainstream churches may not have been the "normal" religious experience at all, and that many of these "outside" groups embodied values that were, in fact, quintessentially American.

Contents:

Cover page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

INTRODUCTION: Protestant Unity and the American Mission-The Historiography of a Desire

PART ONE: Outsider Religions, Ethnicity, and American Identity

CHAPTER ONE: How To Become a People: The Mormon Scenario

CHAPTER TWO: Managing Catholic Success in a Protestant Empire

CHAPTER THREE: American Jews as an Ordinary Minority

PART TWO: The Progressive's Despair- Religions for Average Americans

CHAPTER FOUR: Christian Science and American Popular Religion

CHAPTER FIVE: Premillennial Christian Views of God's Justice and American Injustice

CHAPTER SIX: The Protestant Majority as a Lost Generation- A Look at Fundamentalism

CHAPTER SEVEN: Black Culture and Black Churches- The Quest for an Autonomous Identity

POSTSCRIPT: Civil and Uncivil Religions-Describing Religious Pluralism

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028150-2

1-4237-3621-4

1-60129-679-7

OCLC:

70723221