Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 1 / Colleen McDannell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDannell, Colleen, editor.

Series:

Princeton Readings in Religions

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 1 explores faith through action from Colonial times through the nineteenth century. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people--praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while other texts describe more spontaneous religious actions. Because religious practices also take place in the imagination, dreams, visions, and fictional accounts are also included. Accompanying each primary document is an essay that sets the religious practice in its historical and theological context--making this volume ideal for classroom use and accessible to any reader. The introductory essays explain the various meanings of religious practices as lived out in churches and synagogues, in parlors and fields, beside rivers, on lecture platforms, and in the streets. Religions of the United States in Practice offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States. The history of religion in America is more than the story of institutions and famous people. This anthology presents a more nuanced story composed of the everyday actions and thoughts of lay men and women.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Princeton Readings in Religions

CONTENTS

Contributors

Introduction / McDannell, Colleen

Praying: Individual and Communal Worship

1. The Amidah in Colonial American Synagogues / Ashton, Dianne

2. Seventeenth-Century Puritan Conversion Narratives / Reis, Elizabeth

3. The Book of Common Prayer and Eighteenth-Century Episcopalians / Mullin, Robert Bruce

4. The Green Corn Ceremony of the Muskogees / Martin, Joel W.

5. The Way of Holiness: The Friday Meeting / Schneider, A. Gregory

6. Reception of Novices into the Order of the Sisters of St. Benedict / Killen, Patricia O'Connell

Singing: Songs of Devotion, Praise, and Protest

7. English Hymnody in Early America / McClymond, Michael J.

8. The 1842 Hymnal of Penina Moise / Ashton, Dianne

9. Catholic Song i n the Antebellum United States / Grimes, Robert R. / Grimes, S. J.

10. African American Spirituals / Harvey, Paul

11. Ojibwe Funerary Hymn Singing / McNally, Michael D.

12. Temperance Songs and Hymns / Gifford, Carolyn DeSwarte

Teaching: Learning How to Live Correctly

13. The Celebration of Marriage in the Dutch Reformed Church / Meeter, Daniel James

14. The Visions of Plenty-coups / Martin, Joel W.

15. Mary Anne Sadlier's Advice for Irish Catholic Girls / Hernadi, Liz Szabo

16. John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida Community, and Male Continence / McClymond, Michael J.

17. Is Life Worth Living? / Croce, Paul Jerome

18. In His Steps: A Social Gospel Novel / Olson, Janet C.

Healing: Health, Happiness, and the Miraculous

19. The Spiritual Meanings of Illness in Eighteenth-Century New England / Minkema, Kenneth Ρ.

20. Supernaturalism and Healing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Underwood, Grant

21. Christian Physiology and Diet Reform / Gardella, Peter

22. Sickness, Death, and Illusion in Christian Science / Prentiss, Craig R.

23. The Miracles of St. Anthony of Padua / Meagher, Timothy J.

Imagining: The Unseen World

24. The Life and Death of Mother Marie de Saint Joseph / Boss, Julia

25. Possession, Witchcraft, and the Demonic in Puritan Religious Culture / Minkema, Kenneth Ρ.

26. Speech of Sose-Há-Wä and the Code of Handsome Lake / Dennis, Matthew

27. A Methodist Dream of Heaven and Homeland / Schneider, A. Gregory

28. African-American Vision Stories / Reis, Elizabeth

Persuading: Witnessing, Controversies, and Polemics

29. Native American Visionary Experience and Christian Missions / McNally, Michael D.

30. American Anti-Catholic Pornography / Gardella, Peter

31. The Christian Doctrine of Slavery / Harvey, Paul

32. Trance Lecturers in Antebellum America / Braude, Ann

33. The Cremation versus Burial Debate / Prothero, Stephen

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691188126

0691188122

OCLC:

1076402891