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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... spiritual voices. To take a different example, in their concern to liberate all beings from suffering, Buddhists in the United States have reinterpreted traditional Buddhist teachings to suit American expectations about religious life ...
... spiritual voices. To take a different example, in their concern to liberate all beings from suffering, Buddhists in the United States have reinterpreted traditional Buddhist teachings to suit American expectations about religious life ...
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... spiritual life above worldly authority are long-standing traits that have often worked to complicate the Church's ties to wealth and political power. Furthermore, Americans have been in the vanguard of worldwide Catholic eflorts to ...
... spiritual life above worldly authority are long-standing traits that have often worked to complicate the Church's ties to wealth and political power. Furthermore, Americans have been in the vanguard of worldwide Catholic eflorts to ...
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... spirituality promoted through revivalism. In the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson shifted the context of religious experience from the Bible to nature, arguing that nature was the living expression of God's work and that to ...
... spirituality promoted through revivalism. In the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson shifted the context of religious experience from the Bible to nature, arguing that nature was the living expression of God's work and that to ...
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... spiritual traditions centered on devotion to the mystical presence of Christ in the sacraments and in the world. At ... spirituality found the Buddhist concept of the mind-stream, or Big Mind, familiar while being challenged and pushed ...
... spiritual traditions centered on devotion to the mystical presence of Christ in the sacraments and in the world. At ... spirituality found the Buddhist concept of the mind-stream, or Big Mind, familiar while being challenged and pushed ...
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... spiritual life had a courtly, sexual dimension. In a variety of different American religious traditions, liberals and conservatives have often split over feminism. While liberals endorsed particular forms of feminist theology as ...
... spiritual life had a courtly, sexual dimension. In a variety of different American religious traditions, liberals and conservatives have often split over feminism. While liberals endorsed particular forms of feminist theology as ...
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