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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... LIBERALISM (I923) j. Gresham Machen FROM UNION SQUARE TO ROME (I939) Dorothy Day THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN jEW (I948) Mordecai M. Kaplan “FOREWORD,” THE SACRED PIPE (I953) Black Elk 205 2I5 2I9 222 225 230 235 238 244 254 259 264 268 ...
... LIBERALISM (I923) j. Gresham Machen FROM UNION SQUARE TO ROME (I939) Dorothy Day THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN jEW (I948) Mordecai M. Kaplan “FOREWORD,” THE SACRED PIPE (I953) Black Elk 205 2I5 2I9 222 225 230 235 238 244 254 259 264 268 ...
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... liberal Protestant thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perry Miller taught American Literature at Harvard University from 1931 until his death in 1963. In The New England Mind (1939), Jonathan Edwards (1949) ...
... liberal Protestant thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perry Miller taught American Literature at Harvard University from 1931 until his death in 1963. In The New England Mind (1939), Jonathan Edwards (1949) ...
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... liberal and conservative Christians can be understood as disagreements about family values and their implications for individual experience, social reform, and the meaning of religious freedom, as can differences between liberal and ...
... liberal and conservative Christians can be understood as disagreements about family values and their implications for individual experience, social reform, and the meaning of religious freedom, as can differences between liberal and ...
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... liberal. As a result of the social upheaval connected with the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and countercultural rebellions of the sixties and seventies, the cultural influence of liberal Protestants came under attack and ...
... liberal. As a result of the social upheaval connected with the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and countercultural rebellions of the sixties and seventies, the cultural influence of liberal Protestants came under attack and ...
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... liberal Christians and Jews who found their own traditions recast in the context of American culture. In this and many other ways, nonProtestant traditions have contributed significantly to the meaning of religious freedom in the United ...
... liberal Christians and Jews who found their own traditions recast in the context of American culture. In this and many other ways, nonProtestant traditions have contributed significantly to the meaning of religious freedom in the United ...
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