The Writing Of American Religious History

Author : Thomas A. Tweed
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520917989

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Retelling U.S. Religious History by Thomas A. Tweed Pdf

This collection marks a turning point in the study of the history of American religions. In challenging the dominant paradigm, Thomas A. Tweed and his coauthors propose nothing less than a reshaping of the way that American religious history is understood, studied, and taught. The range of these essays is extraordinary. They analyze sexual pleasure, colonization, gender, and interreligious exchange. The narrators position themselves in a number of geographical sites, including the Canadian border, the American West, and the Deep South. And they discuss a wide range of groups, from Pueblo Indians and Russian Orthodox to Japanese Buddhists and Southern Baptists.

Author : Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300100124

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A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. Ahlstrom Pdf

This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century's choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day. Praise for the earlier edition: ?An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language.”?B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World ?The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition.”?Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review ?An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor.”?America ?The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority.”?Christianity Today ?No one writing or thinking hereafter about America's past will be able to ignore Ahlstrom's magisterial account of the religious element.”?American Historical Review

Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher : De Gruyter Saur
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Protestant churches
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018284013

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The Writing of American Religious History by Martin E. Marty Pdf

Author : Edwin S. Gaustad,Leigh Schmidt
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062467812

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The Religious History of America by Edwin S. Gaustad,Leigh Schmidt Pdf

A Dynamic Account of Religion's Central Role in American History

Author : Julius H. Bailey
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506408040

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Down in the Valley by Julius H. Bailey Pdf

African American religions constitute a diverse group of beliefs and practices that emerged from the African diaspora brought about by the Atlantic slave trade. Traditional religions that had informed the worldviews of Africans were transported to the shores of the Americas and transformed to make sense of new contexts and conditions. This book explores the survival of traditional religions and how African American religions have influenced and been shaped by American religious history. The text provides an overview of the central people, issues, and events in an account that considers Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Islam, Pentecostal churches, Voodoo, Conjure, Rastafarianism, and new religious movements such as Black Judaism, the Nation of Islam, and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. The book addresses contemporary controversies, including President Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright, and it will be valuable to all students of African American religions, African American studies, sociology of religion, American religious history, the Black Church, and black theology.

Author : Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310586180

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America's Religious History by Thomas S. Kidd Pdf

Religion, race, and American history. America's Religious History is an up-to-date, narrative-based introduction to the unique role of faith in American history. Moving beyond present-day polemics to understand the challenges and nuances of our religious past, leading historian Thomas S. Kidd interweaves religious history and key events from the larger story of American history, including: The Great Awakening The American Revolution Slavery and the Civil War Civil rights and church-state controversy Immigration, religious diversity, and the culture wars Useful for both classroom and personal study, America's Religious History provides a balanced, authoritative assessment of how faith has shaped American life and politics.

Author : Lynn Bridgers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742550591

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The American Religious Experience by Lynn Bridgers Pdf

The American Religious Experience offers a short, accessible introduction to American religious history by an award-winning writer. Recognizing the inter-denominational, inter-religious and multi-cultural perspectives that all contribute to the American religious landscape, this book explores the tension between the central, dominant streams of American Christianity and those groups relegated to the periphery. On the edges of the American mainstream we find the histories of groups rooted in visionary traditions, emotionalized forms of religious practice, and ever-expanding ethnic and racial perspectives. The complexity of the religious scene in the United States now, ongoing tensions between identity and diversity, and the many voices that inform American religious practice today grow directly out of the dynamic history that unfolds in these pages.

Author : Edward L. Queen,Stephen R. Prothero,Gardiner H. Shattuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religious biography
ISBN : OCLC:1144498147

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Encyclopedia of American Religious History by Edward L. Queen,Stephen R. Prothero,Gardiner H. Shattuck Pdf

Author : John B. Boles
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0820322970

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Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History by John B. Boles Pdf

Invoking the strong ties they sense between the courses of their lives and their careers, the sixteen historians of religion who have contributed to Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History share their thoughts and motivations. In these highly personal essays, both pioneering and promising young scholars discuss their work and interests as they recall how the circumstances of their upbringing and education steered them toward religious history. They tell of their own time and place and of their growing awareness of how religion ties into larger social issues: gender, class, and, most notably, race. Indeed, one essay begins, "I was asked to write about why I came to study religion in the South. It was then I realized that it was because my grandfather had been lynched." Lutheran, Jewish, Catholic, Methodist, and Episcopal viewpoints are represented as, of course, are Baptist. Some contributors have stood in the pulpit; others at least commenced their higher education with that aim. While some contributors were born and reared, and now work in the Bible Belt, others are outsiders--physically, philosophically, or both. Some came from intellectual traditions; others were the first in their family to attend college. Despite their common interest in its history, southern religion is anything but an intellectual abstraction for the contributors to this book. It is a potent force, and here sixteen men and women offer themselves as proof of its power to shape lives.

Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0822324490

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African American Religious History by Milton C. Sernett Pdf

This is a 2nd edition of the 1985 anthology that examines the religious history of African Americans.

Author : John Frederick Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 082032289X

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Religion and the American Nation by John Frederick Wilson Pdf

This lively survey ranges across several centuries of change in the ways historians have thought and written about religion in America. In particular, John F. Wilson is concerned with how historians have perceived religion's relationship to the political organization of our country. He begins by establishing the genesis of religion as a specialized area of American history in the nineteenth century, and then discusses religious history's development through the early 1970s. Along the way he considers topics ranging from the "long shadow" the Puritans have cast over our comprehension of religion in American history to the ascendancy of such institutions as the University of Chicago as systematizing forces in religious scholarship. Wilson then discusses how scholars, since the early 1970s, have sought to ground their accounts of American religious trends and events in ways that either avoid or transcend references to Puritanism. The rise of comparative religious histories, Wilson notes, has been the welcome outcome. Moving into the present, Wilson explores a range of behaviors, if not beliefs, that might be understood as religious aspects of American life, and looks at how the spiritual or religious dimensions of American cultural life have been expressed in gnosticism, the mass media, and consumerism. One commentator, Wilson notes, suggested that there are no longer any religions as such in America today, but only religious "brands." Wilson himself sees America as a place where there is room for Old World traditions and new spiritual initiatives, a modern nation remarkably hospitable to ancient preoccupations.

Author : Walter H. Conser,Sumner B. Twiss
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 082031918X

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Religious Diversity and American Religious History by Walter H. Conser,Sumner B. Twiss Pdf

The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, Muslim, and Native American traditions. Chapters on religion and the South, religion and gender, indigenous sectarian religious movements, and the metaphysical tradition round out the collection. The contributors examine the past, present, and future of American religion, first orienting readers to historiographic trends and traditions of interpretation in each area, then providing case studies to show their vision of how these areas should be developed. Full of provocative insights into the complexity of American religion, this volume helps us better understand America's religious history and its future challenges and directions.

Author : Kathleen M. Sands
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300245370

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America’s Religious Wars by Kathleen M. Sands Pdf

How American conflicts about religion have always symbolized our foundational political values When Americans fight about “religion,” we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core political values. The Constitution treats religion as something to be confined behind a wall, but in public communications, the Framers treated religion as the foundation of the American republic. Ever since, Americans have translated disagreements on many other issues into an endless debate about the role of religion in our public life. Built around a set of compelling narratives—George Washington’s battle with Quaker pacifists; the fight of Mormons and Catholics for equality with Protestants; Teddy Roosevelt’s concept of land versus the Lakota’s concept; the creation-evolution controversy; and the struggle over sexuality—this book shows how religion, throughout American history, has symbolized, but never resolved, our deepest political questions.

Author : Harry S. Stout,D. G. Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198027201

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New Directions in American Religious History by Harry S. Stout,D. G. Hart Pdf

The eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized both where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come. The essays are organized according to four general themes: places and regions, universal themes, transformative events, and marginal groups and ethnocultural "outsiders." They address a wide range of specific topics including Puritanism, Protestantism and economic behavior, gender and sexuality in American Protestantism, and the twentieth-century de-Christianization of American public culture. Among the contributors are such distinguished scholars as David D. Hall, Donald G. Matthews, Allen C. Guelzo, Gordon S. Wood, Daniel Walker Howe, Robert Wuthnow, Jon Butler, David A. Hollinger, Harry S. Stout, and John Higham. Taken together, these essays reveal a rapidly expanding field of study that is breaking out of its traditional confines and spilling into all of American history. The book takes the measure of the changes of the last quarter-century and charts numerous challenges to future work.

Author : Robert R. Mathisen
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781932792393

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Critical Issues in American Religious History by Robert R. Mathisen Pdf

Americans as a religious people experience both tension and indecision as they wrestle with a variety of critical issues every day. American society continually struggles with its religious past. The primary and secondary materials included in this volume track religious America's efforts to articulate its identity and destiny and implement its religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society.