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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... leadership, and the potential for every priest to become a god. The Southern Baptist Convention is a conference of churches and church leaders whose purpose is only to guide, not legislate, the religious beliefs and practices of ...
... leadership, and the potential for every priest to become a god. The Southern Baptist Convention is a conference of churches and church leaders whose purpose is only to guide, not legislate, the religious beliefs and practices of ...
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... leaders of New England of persecuting others for conscience's sake. These leaders defended themselves by saying that they had come to America in order to have freedom to establish true Christianity, and that they were right not to allow ...
... leaders of New England of persecuting others for conscience's sake. These leaders defended themselves by saying that they had come to America in order to have freedom to establish true Christianity, and that they were right not to allow ...
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... leaders and their descendants. To return to the metaphor of American religious life as an ecosystem that has developed over time, one might say that people, ideas, and institutions rooted in the New England Puritan tradition dominated ...
... leaders and their descendants. To return to the metaphor of American religious life as an ecosystem that has developed over time, one might say that people, ideas, and institutions rooted in the New England Puritan tradition dominated ...
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... leaders discovered to their surprise, the enthusiasm with which Americans have attached themselves to particular religious has often been stimulated by the free and uncoerced nature of those attachments. The idea that freedom is good ...
... leaders discovered to their surprise, the enthusiasm with which Americans have attached themselves to particular religious has often been stimulated by the free and uncoerced nature of those attachments. The idea that freedom is good ...
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... leaders exerted a disproportionate amount of legal, professional, and cultural influence in the United States. Many of these cultural elites were broad-minded and concerned to make American society more just and enlightened. But at the ...
... leaders exerted a disproportionate amount of legal, professional, and cultural influence in the United States. Many of these cultural elites were broad-minded and concerned to make American society more just and enlightened. But at the ...
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