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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... significant topic in American history, and bring new, exciting scholarship to students in a compact, accessible format. The series is designed to complement textbooks and other general. American Religious History: Series Editor's Preface.
... significant topic in American history, and bring new, exciting scholarship to students in a compact, accessible format. The series is designed to complement textbooks and other general. American Religious History: Series Editor's Preface.
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... significance of ordinary life. As perhaps their most outstanding characteristic of all, Americans have tended to look to religion as an instrument of world progress and as a means to unprecedented and even revolutionary social change ...
... significance of ordinary life. As perhaps their most outstanding characteristic of all, Americans have tended to look to religion as an instrument of world progress and as a means to unprecedented and even revolutionary social change ...
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... significance of the nuclear family as a primary context for religious life. At the same time, Hindus and Buddhists have inspired many Americans with the wisdom of their ancient traditions, and with their relevance as antidotes to some ...
... significance of the nuclear family as a primary context for religious life. At the same time, Hindus and Buddhists have inspired many Americans with the wisdom of their ancient traditions, and with their relevance as antidotes to some ...
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... significantly to the meaning of religious freedom in the United States and to its historical development as a cherished American ideal. Not only Jews, whose own traditions supported it, but Catholics, whose Church officially opposed it ...
... significantly to the meaning of religious freedom in the United States and to its historical development as a cherished American ideal. Not only Jews, whose own traditions supported it, but Catholics, whose Church officially opposed it ...
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... significant cultural developments to emerge out of American revivalism was the exchange between Anglo Protestant and African traditions. Torn away from the protection of African deities, and from the traditional cultures devoted to ...
... significant cultural developments to emerge out of American revivalism was the exchange between Anglo Protestant and African traditions. Torn away from the protection of African deities, and from the traditional cultures devoted to ...
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