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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... RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF jARENA LEE (I836) jarena Lee NATURE (I836) Ralph Waldo Emerson POEMS (I 863-I 864) Emily Dickinson THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: ITS CONSTITUTION, TENDENCIES, AND DESTINY (I865) Orestes Brownson OUR COUNTRY'S PLACE IN ...
... RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF jARENA LEE (I836) jarena Lee NATURE (I836) Ralph Waldo Emerson POEMS (I 863-I 864) Emily Dickinson THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: ITS CONSTITUTION, TENDENCIES, AND DESTINY (I865) Orestes Brownson OUR COUNTRY'S PLACE IN ...
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... experience. Anthropologists, psychologists, literary critics, and political scientists (to name just a few) study only discrete parts of our existence. The result is a rather arbitrary collection of disciplinary boundaries enshrined not ...
... experience. Anthropologists, psychologists, literary critics, and political scientists (to name just a few) study only discrete parts of our existence. The result is a rather arbitrary collection of disciplinary boundaries enshrined not ...
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... Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Through ... religious diversity. Randall Balmer is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American ... Experience (1985), was the first to place the revitalization of American ...
... Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Through ... religious diversity. Randall Balmer is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American ... Experience (1985), was the first to place the revitalization of American ...
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... religious history, this Introduction focuses on religious freedom, individual experience, family life, and social reform as four interlocking elements that have worked together over time to define virtually all of the particular religious ...
... religious history, this Introduction focuses on religious freedom, individual experience, family life, and social reform as four interlocking elements that have worked together over time to define virtually all of the particular religious ...
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... religious freedom, individual experience, family life, and social reform are pervasive. These commitments have shaped American religious history, influencing the development of particular faith traditions, each of which can be ...
... religious freedom, individual experience, family life, and social reform are pervasive. These commitments have shaped American religious history, influencing the development of particular faith traditions, each of which can be ...
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