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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... missions. Transcendentalists carried forward the investment in the authority of individual conscience that first brought Puritans to America, as did many seekers of metaphysical truth and proponents of social justice. Both Catholics and ...
... missions. Transcendentalists carried forward the investment in the authority of individual conscience that first brought Puritans to America, as did many seekers of metaphysical truth and proponents of social justice. Both Catholics and ...
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... mission to make America a light to all nations. Why were their plans not working out more smoothly? Was God really behind their endeavor? Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this uneasiness about the idea of America's role ...
... mission to make America a light to all nations. Why were their plans not working out more smoothly? Was God really behind their endeavor? Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this uneasiness about the idea of America's role ...
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