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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... Native Americans, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Wiccans have all claimed freedom of religious expression as their right, while conservative Protestants have often wanted to limit the definition of religion to certain ...
... Native Americans, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Wiccans have all claimed freedom of religious expression as their right, while conservative Protestants have often wanted to limit the definition of religion to certain ...
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... Native Americans have often defined their uneasy relationship to mainstream American society in terms of a religious understanding of family that encompasses ancestral spirits who inhabit Native lands. In recent years, this enlarged ...
... Native Americans have often defined their uneasy relationship to mainstream American society in terms of a religious understanding of family that encompasses ancestral spirits who inhabit Native lands. In recent years, this enlarged ...
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... Native Americans, and for his condemnation of the tendency in many of his fellow Puritans to assume their moral superiority over Native Americans and God-given right to Indian land. This tendency of the Puritan elite to cast itself as a ...
... Native Americans, and for his condemnation of the tendency in many of his fellow Puritans to assume their moral superiority over Native Americans and God-given right to Indian land. This tendency of the Puritan elite to cast itself as a ...
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... Native Americans often defined themselves against the Protestant establishment that attempted to dominate them. At the same time, they, too, pressed to extend the meaning of religious freedom and its implications. Hindus and Buddhists ...
... Native Americans often defined themselves against the Protestant establishment that attempted to dominate them. At the same time, they, too, pressed to extend the meaning of religious freedom and its implications. Hindus and Buddhists ...
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... Native Americans. It was not until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 that Native Americans won a firm and explicit guarantee of legal protection for their exercise of religious freedom. From the last decades of the ...
... Native Americans. It was not until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 that Native Americans won a firm and explicit guarantee of legal protection for their exercise of religious freedom. From the last decades of the ...
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