The story of religion in America : an introduction / James P. Byrd, James Hudnut-Beumler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byrd, James P., 1965- author.

Hudnut-Beumler, James David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Religion--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 pages)

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2021]

Summary:

Written primarily for undergraduate classes in American religious history and organized chronologically, this new textbook, presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States, paying careful attention to balancing the story of Christianity with the central contributions of other religions.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

A Word for Students

Difficult Definitions: America, Religion, and History

Where to Begin: A New World for Everyone

The Action: Exclusion and Conflict

Inclusion and Consensus

Primary Documents: A Special Feature of This Book

1. Catholic Missions, European Conquests

Religions of the Land

Myths

Rituals

Divided Christianity, Mission and Empire

Founding a New Spain in the "New World"

A New France in Canada and the Midwest

2. Puritanism in New England

Separatist "Pilgrims" and Non-Separatist "Puritans"

"To Live Ancient Lives"

Election, Predestination, and Salvation

Church, State, and Religious Liberty

The Banishment of Anne Hutchinson

Spiritual and Military Warfare

Salem Witch Trials

3. Early American Religious Diversity: The Caribbean, the Middle Colonies, and the South

Rivalries and Religion

Virginia

Maryland

From New Amsterdam to New York

Pennsylvania

The Caribbean, Bermuda, and the South

Carolina

Georgia

4. The Great Awakening

"My Heart Was Broken": Through the Eyes of Nathan Cole, Connecticut Farmer

"The Most Famous Man in America": George Whitefield, Traveling Evangelist and International Celebrity

Jonathan Edwards, Theologian of Revival

The Great Awakening and the Growth of the Baptists

African Americans, Slavery, and the Great Awakening

5. The Enlightenment in America

The Enlightenment and the Nation's Founders

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

White Supremacy and Slavery

An Evangelical Enlightenment

6. The American Revolution

From Revivals to Revolution?

"No Taxation without Representation"

Religious Arsenals: Fighting the War

The Bible as Common Sense

Slavery, Religion, and the Revolution.

7. The New Nation

The Constitution and Religion

Religious Establishment and Religious Liberty

Opposites Attack: Evangelicals and Rationalists

The French Revolution and the "Age of Reason"

Republican Religion in New Forms

8. New Revivals and New Faiths

Rip Van Winkle and Religion in American Society

A Second Great Awakening

The "Benevolent Empire"

Denominations on the Move

The Rise of Independent African American Churches

Women in the Pulpit

New Religions and Latter-Day Revelations

9. Slavery and the Civil War

Slavery and the Nation's Founding

The Expansion of Slavery

Religious Attacks on Slavery before the Civil War

Divided Denominations and a Divided Bible

"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

A War of Providence and Patriotism

Emancipation

Gettysburg

"Both Read the Same Bible"

Civil War and Civil Religion

10. The Second American Revolution: Emancipation, Immigration, and Reckoning with Life and Death

Reconstruction

Immigration

The Spiritual Work of Mourning

11. The New Science and the Old-Time Religion

Reception of Darwin: American Responses

Reception of Evolution: Progressive Responses

Biblical Criticism Comes to America

Reception of Biblical Criticism: A Progressive Response

Popular Understandings of the Bible in the Later Nineteenth Century

12. Mass Immigration and the Closing Western Frontier

New Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe

Other World Religions Appearing

The World Parliament of Religions

Shifting Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy

Native American Religious Life

Ghost Dance Religion

13. A Social Gospel and Black Religious Life in the Nadir

The Gilded Age

Black Religious Life in the Nadir

Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise of 1895.

The Talented Tenth, Black Arts and Letters, and Civil Rights

14. The Birth of the American Century and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Battles

A Big Tent and the Big Stick

Preparing the Way for Fundamentalism

Fighting for Faith

The Battle Comes Home-Intensified Faith Controversies

The Scopes Trial

Reactions and Legacy

15. A World in Crisis and an American Religious High

Religion in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

The Crisis of Totalitarianism

Protestant, Catholic, Jew in Postwar America

Prosperity and Popular Religiosity

New Voices, New Movements

16. A Catholic President, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Ferment of the 1960s

A Catholic President and Vatican II

The Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King Jr.: Just versus Unjust Laws

Ferment and Division

New Forms of Religious Diversity

Theologies of Liberation and the End of Universal Truth

17. The Culture Wars, Pentecostalization, and American Religion after 9/11

Religious Realignment on Political Lines

The Consciousness Revolution and New Religious Identities

New Roles for Women in Religious Leadership

Private Religion, Pentecostalization, and the Prosperity Gospel

American Religion after 9/11

Notes

Index

Excerpt from World Religions in America, Fourth Edition, edited by Jacob Neusner.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Byrd, James P. The Story of Religion in America

ISBN:

9781646982226

1646982223