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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... 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 Christians, Jews, Muslims ...
... 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 Christians, Jews, Muslims ...
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... immigrants brought more Asian Buddhists and Buddhist teachers to the United States. The growing presence of Buddhist people and ideas opened the way for new developments within Buddhism as well as within American culture. Buddhist ...
... immigrants brought more Asian Buddhists and Buddhist teachers to the United States. The growing presence of Buddhist people and ideas opened the way for new developments within Buddhism as well as within American culture. Buddhist ...
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... immigrants and their descendants in the process of assimilating to American culture. For example, the German American Protestants who founded St. Paul's Church in nineteenth-century Chicago celebrated the male relationships at the core ...
... immigrants and their descendants in the process of assimilating to American culture. For example, the German American Protestants who founded St. Paul's Church in nineteenth-century Chicago celebrated the male relationships at the core ...
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