American Religious HistoryAmanda Porterfield John Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 352 pages In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion. |
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... AMERICA Charles S. Prebish STRIVING FOR MUSLIM WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS - BEFORE AND BEYOND BEIJING: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons PRIMARY DOCUMENTS A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY (I630) john Winthrop EXAMINATION ...
... AMERICA Charles S. Prebish STRIVING FOR MUSLIM WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS - BEFORE AND BEYOND BEIJING: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons PRIMARY DOCUMENTS A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY (I630) john Winthrop EXAMINATION ...
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... African American and immigrant Muslims. This identification of basic elements of American religious life does not mean that a rigid boundary exists between religion in the United States and religion elsewhere, or that American ...
... African American and immigrant Muslims. This identification of basic elements of American religious life does not mean that a rigid boundary exists between religion in the United States and religion elsewhere, or that American ...
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... African American Baptists, Methodists, and later Pentecostals strongly identified with biblical stories of God's relationship with people of Israel. God's deliverance of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt was a message of hope for many ...
... African American Baptists, Methodists, and later Pentecostals strongly identified with biblical stories of God's relationship with people of Israel. God's deliverance of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt was a message of hope for many ...
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... American revivalism was the exchange between Anglo Protestant and African traditions. Torn away from the protection of African deities, and from the traditional cultures devoted to these deities and their worship, Africans in the New ...
... American revivalism was the exchange between Anglo Protestant and African traditions. Torn away from the protection of African deities, and from the traditional cultures devoted to these deities and their worship, Africans in the New ...
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