Religious Outsiders And The Making Of Americans

Author : R. Laurence Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195363999

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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.

Author : Robert Laurence Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:252557151

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Author : Robert Laurence Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195098389

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Selling God by Robert Laurence Moore Pdf

In a sweeping colourful history that spans over two centuries of American culture, Moore examines the role of religion in America as it appropriated (and was appropriated by) commercial culture. He reveals the centrality of religion, and the marketplace, in American popular culture.

Author : Thomas C. Hunt,James C. Carper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135629304

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Religion and Schooling in Contemporary America by Thomas C. Hunt,James C. Carper Pdf

With articles dealing with denomination, law, public policy and financing this anthology grants an evenhanded view of the impact of religion on our nation's public schools.

Author : Edwin Scott Gaustad,Mark A. Noll,Heath W. Carter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802873583

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A Documentary History of Religion in America by Edwin Scott Gaustad,Mark A. Noll,Heath W. Carter Pdf

Students and scholars have long turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to American religious history. Published here in a single volume for the first time, the work in this fourth edition has been both updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily use the material in one semester. --

Author : Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725230897

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African Americans and the Bible by Vincent L. Wimbush Pdf

Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the Bible courses through black society and culture like blood through veins. Despite the enormous recent interest in African American religion, relatively little attention has been paid to the diversity of ways in which African Americans have utilized the Bible. African Americans and the Bible is the fruit of a four-year collaborative research project directed by Vincent L. Wimbush and funded by the Lilly Endowment. It brings together scholars and experts (sixty-eight in all) from a wide range of academic and artistic fields and disciplines--including ethnography, cultural history, and biblical studies as well as art, music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of visions, rhetorics, and ideologies known as the Bible. As such, the book is less about the meaning(s) of the Bible than about the Bible and meaning(s), less about the world(s) of the Bible than about how worlds and the Bible interact--in short, about how a text constructs a people and a people constructs a text. It is about a particular sociocultural formation but also about the dynamics that obtain in the interrelation between any group of people and sacred texts in general. Thus African Americans and the Bible provides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.

Author : Luther S. Luedtke
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807843709

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Making America by Luther S. Luedtke Pdf

In this richly interdisciplinary work twenty-eight of the nation's leading critics and scholars offer a comprehensive exploration of American society and culture. Each outstanding in his or her own field, the contributors address "America" from a diversit

Author : Peter C. Phan,Jonathan Ray
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620329436

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Understanding Religious Pluralism by Peter C. Phan,Jonathan Ray Pdf

Our contemporary world is fast becoming religiously diverse in a variety of ways. Thanks to globalization and migration, to mention only two current worldwide trends, people of diverse and sometimes mutually hostile faiths are now sharing neighborhoods and encountering one another's religious traditions on a daily basis. For scholars in religious studies and theology the issue to be examined is whether religious diversity is merely the result of historical development and social interaction, or whether it is inherent in the object of belief--part of the very structure of faith and our attempts to understand and express it. The essays in this volume range from explorations of the impact of religious diversity on religious studies to examples of interfaith encounter and dialogue, and current debates on Christian theology of religion. These essays examine not only the theoretical issues posed by religious pluralism to the study of religion and Christian theology but also concrete cases in which religious pluralism has been a bone of contention. Together, they open up new vistas for further conversation on the nature and development of religious pluralism.

Author : Edwin S. Gaustad,Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0802822290

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A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877 by Edwin S. Gaustad,Mark A. Noll Pdf

A richly variegated selection of short documents illustrative of the history of religion in America. The best source-book available to contemporary students and general readers.

Author : Mary Farrell Bednarowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253114464

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New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America by Mary Farrell Bednarowski Pdf

"Bednarowski is especially good at elucidating the theological daring of these new American religions.... [She] demonstrates in a very few pages how... theology and group adherence made the individual count, a configuration simultaneously American, un-American, and important." -- Jon Butler "The cultural confrontation with these `new religions' is very real and usually very misinformed. Bednarowski has gone to great lengths to dispel the ignorance." -- The Christian Century "A groundbreaking study." -- Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture Organized as a series of theological conversations about ultimate questions, this book offers a guide to the answers these six religions offer. Drawing heavily on sources from the movements themselves, it presents a balanced comparative account of the emerging theological systems of America's new religions.

Author : Peter W. Williams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252097706

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America's Religions by Peter W. Williams Pdf

A classroom perennial and comprehensive guide, 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.

Author : Patrick Allitt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780231121552

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Religion in America Since 1945 by Patrick Allitt Pdf

Discusses the Cold War, communism, Eisenhower, the civil rights movement, African-Americans and religion, Mormons, Vietnam, Catholics, feminism, cults, creationism and evolution, American Islam, home schooling, abortion, homosexuality and religion, and the Christian Right.

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400837243

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America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity by Robert Wuthnow Pdf

Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United States as a Christian society. How are we adapting to the new diversity? Do we casually announce that we "respect" the faiths of non-Christians without understanding much about those faiths? Are we willing to do the hard work required to achieve genuine religious pluralism? Award-winning author Robert Wuthnow tackles these and other difficult questions surrounding religious diversity and does so with his characteristic rigor and style. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity looks not only at how we have adapted to diversity in the past, but at the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding today. Drawing from a new national survey and hundreds of in-depth qualitative interviews, this book is the first systematic effort to assess how well the nation is meeting the current challenges of religious and cultural diversity. The results, Wuthnow argues, are both encouraging and sobering--encouraging because most Americans do recognize the right of diverse groups to worship freely, but sobering because few Americans have bothered to learn much about religions other than their own or to engage in constructive interreligious dialogue. Wuthnow contends that responses to religious diversity are fundamentally deeper than polite discussions about civil liberties and tolerance would suggest. Rather, he writes, religious diversity strikes us at the very core of our personal and national theologies. Only by understanding this important dimension of our culture will we be able to move toward a more reflective approach to religious pluralism.

Author : Thomas A. Fudge
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773482490

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Daniel Warner and the Paradox of Religious Democracy in Nineteenth-century America by Thomas A. Fudge Pdf

Author : Charles L. Cohen,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199931903

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Gods in America by Charles L. Cohen,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

Religous pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape. Gods in America brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explain the historical roots of these phenomena and assess their impact on modern American society.