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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... colonies and the United States in all its fullness. Unfortunately, much of that scholarship, published in specialized monographs and journals, remains inaccessible to undergraduates. Consequently, instructors often face choices that are ...
... colonies and the United States in all its fullness. Unfortunately, much of that scholarship, published in specialized monographs and journals, remains inaccessible to undergraduates. Consequently, instructors often face choices that are ...
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... colonies prohibited, or tried to prohibit, forms of religious worship that did not conform to Puritan belief. Quakers were persecuted in seventeenth-century Massachusetts and, after the American Revolution, even the elite Church of ...
... colonies prohibited, or tried to prohibit, forms of religious worship that did not conform to Puritan belief. Quakers were persecuted in seventeenth-century Massachusetts and, after the American Revolution, even the elite Church of ...
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