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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Amanda Porterfield. 6 PART II I0 I4 I5 I7 CATHOLICISM AND AMERICAN CULTURE: STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL jay P. Dolan CONSERVATIVE jUDAISM Gerson D. Cohen “INTRODUCTION,” THE FACES OF BUDDHISM IN AMERICA Charles S. Prebish STRIVING FOR MUSLIM ...
Amanda Porterfield. 6 PART II I0 I4 I5 I7 CATHOLICISM AND AMERICAN CULTURE: STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL jay P. Dolan CONSERVATIVE jUDAISM Gerson D. Cohen “INTRODUCTION,” THE FACES OF BUDDHISM IN AMERICA Charles S. Prebish STRIVING FOR MUSLIM ...
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... American culture and intellectual life. Charles S. Prebish is Professor of Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University and coeditor of the journal of Buddhist Ethics. His books, The Luminous Passage (1999) and The Faces of Buddhism ...
... American culture and intellectual life. Charles S. Prebish is Professor of Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University and coeditor of the journal of Buddhist Ethics. His books, The Luminous Passage (1999) and The Faces of Buddhism ...
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... Buddhism, and possibly more forms of Judaism than anywhere else in the world. It is also home to more new religions and to more new forms of religious hybridization than anywhere else. In studying American religious history, it is ...
... Buddhism, and possibly more forms of Judaism than anywhere else in the world. It is also home to more new religions and to more new forms of religious hybridization than anywhere else. In studying American religious history, it is ...
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... America. This originally Protestant emphasis on family life as the best context for religious life has shaped the development of American Catholicism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, contributing to the democratization of all three traditions ...
... America. This originally Protestant emphasis on family life as the best context for religious life has shaped the development of American Catholicism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, contributing to the democratization of all three traditions ...
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... Buddhism as well as within American culture. Buddhist practices became more democratic and informal than they were in Asia, and Buddhist ideas became more flexible, especially as they were adapted to American forms of psychotherapy.
... Buddhism as well as within American culture. Buddhist practices became more democratic and informal than they were in Asia, and Buddhist ideas became more flexible, especially as they were adapted to American forms of psychotherapy.
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