Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 2 / 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 2 explores faith through action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 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. Lucy Smith and Pentecostal Worship in Chicago / Best, Wallace

2. Lutheran Family Devotions / DeBerg, Betty

3. The Daily Prayer (Du'a) of Shica Isma'ili Muslims / Kassam, Tazim R.

4. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament / Killen, Patuda O'Connell

5. The Homemade Passover Haggadah / Ochs, Vanessa L.

6. Mormon Fast and Testimony Meetings / Riess, Jana Kathryn

Singing: Songs of Devotion, Praise, and Protest

7. Hanukkah Songs of the 1950s / Ashton, Dianne

8. Freedom Songs and the Civil Rights Movement / Harvey, Paul

9. Folk Music in the Catholic Mass / Oppenheimer, Mark

10. Buddhist Chanting in Soka Gakkai International / Seager, Richard Hughes

11. Contemporary Christian Worship Music / Ingersoll, Julie

Teaching: Learning How to Live Correctly

12. Teaching Morality in Race Movies / Weisenjeld, Judith

13. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Liberal Protestant Teaching / Lang, Bernhard

14. Reconciling Patriotism and Catholic Devotion: Catholic Children's Literature in Postwar America / Meagher, Timothy J.

15. Sex and Submission in the Spirit / Gardella, Peter

16. An Apache Girl's Initiation Feast / McNally, Michael D.

17. Taking or Receiving the Buddhist Precepts / Seager, Richard Hughes

Healing: Health, Happiness, and The Miraculous

18. Tongues and Healing at the Azusa Street Revival / Espinosa, Gastón

19. Navajo Healing Ceremonies / Porterjield, Amanda

20. The Power of Positive Thinking / Prentiss, Craig R.

21. Shamanism in the New Age / Laderman, Gary

22. Jewish Mourning Practices / Ochs, Vanessa L.

23. The Latter-day Saint Word of Wisdom / Riess, Jana Kathryn

Imagining: The Unseen World

24. Early Christian Radio and Religious Nostalgia / Goff, Philip

25. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Making of an American Myth / Prentiss, Craig R.

26. Spiritual Warfare in the Fiction of Frank Peretti / Gardella, Peter

27. Charismatic Renewal among Latino Catholics / Vásquez, Manuel A.

28. Visualizing Chenrezi in American Tibetan Buddhism / Seager, Richard Hughes

29. The Rite of Baptism in Haitian Vodou / McAlister, Elizabeth

Persuading: Witnessing, Controversies, and Polemics

30. Millions Now Living Will Never Die / Maclean, lain S.

31. Ordaining Women Rabbis / Nadell, Pamela S.

32. Mother India's Scandalous Swamis / Prothero, Stephen

33. The Wit and Wisdom of The Door / McClymond, Michael

34. Battling Spiritism and the Need for Catholic Orthodoxy / Vásquez, Manuel A.

INDEX

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780691188133

0691188130

OCLC:

1076461225