American Religious History (eBook)

Amanda Porterfield (Herausgeber)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-69281-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Amanda Porterfield is Professor in the Religious Studies Program at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Feminine Spirituality in America (1980), Female Piety in New England (1992), The Power of Religion (1998), and The Transformation of American Religion (2001).

Inhalt

Series Editor's Preface.

About the Contributors.

Introduction.

Part I: Historical Essays.

1. Errand Into the Wilderness. (Perry Miller).

2. Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combination,
and American Religious History. (Catherine L. Albanese).

3. Shouting Methodists. (Ann Taves).

4. Protestantism as Establishment. (William R. Hutchison).

5. American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity. (Randall
Balmer).

6. Catholicism and American Culture: Strategies for Survival.
(Jay P. Dolan).

7. Conservative Judaism. (Gerson D. Cohen).

8. "Introduction," The Faces of Buddhism in America. (Charles S.
Prebish).

9. Striving for Muslim Women's Human Rights - Before and
Beyond Beijing: An African American Perspective. (Gwendolyn Zoharah
Simmons).

Part II: Primary Documents.

10. A Model of Christian Charity (1630). (John Winthrop).

11. Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (1637).

12. A Key into the Language of America (1643). (Roger
Williams).

13. Poems (1640-1665). (Anne Bradstreet).

14. The Nature of True Virtue (1765). (Jonathan Edwards).

15. Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779). (Thomas
Jefferson).

16. The Code of Handsome Lake (Ca.1800). (Edward
Cornplanter).

17. What a Revival of Religion Is (1834). (Charles Grandison
Finney).

18. The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836).
(Jarena Lee).

19. Nature (1836). (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

20. Poems (1863-1864). (Emily Dickinson).

21. The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and
Destiny (1865). (Orestes Brownson).

22. Our Country's Place in History (1869). (Isaac M. Wise).

23. Pre-Existence of Our Spirits (1872). (Orson Pratt).

24. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875). (Mary
Baker Eddy).

25. A Function of the Social Settlement (1899). (Jane
Addams).

26. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). (William
James).

27. The Scofield Reference Bible (1909).

28. Christianity and Liberalism (1923). (J. Gresham Machen).

29. From Union Square to Rome (1939). (Dorothy Day).

30. The Future of the American Jew (1948). (Mordecai M.
Kaplan).

31. "Foreword," The Sacred Pipe (1953). (Black Elk).

32. "Sunflower Sutra" (1955) and "Kaddish" (1958). (Allen
Ginsberg).

33. Nonviolence and Racial Justice (1957). (Martin Luther King,
Jr.).

34. God's Judgment of White America (1963). (Malcolm X).

35. "Preface," The Protestant Establishment (1964): E. Digby
Baltzell.

36. Religious Freedom (1966). ( John Courtney Murray).

37. Beyond God the Father (1973). (Mary Daly).

38. Ceremony (1977). (Leslie Marmon Silko).

39. "American Indian Religious Freedom," Public Law 95-341
(1978).

40. Sexism and God-Talk (1983). (Rosemary Radford Ruether).

41. The Voice of Sarah (1990). (Tamar Frankiel).

42. Thoughts Without a Thinker (1995). (Mark Epstein).

43. Active Faith (1996). (Ralph Reed).

Index.

Rezensionen

"Porterfield calls attention to certain continuing touchstones
underlying all the enormous variety of patterns and traits in major
religious traditions and movements, each shaped by cultural
modifiers. This is a 'reader' with an interpretive point, an
abundant and lively but directed collection." Rowland A.
Sherrill, Indiana University / Purdue University

"This collection of well-chosen primary sources and essays by
major scholars illuminates the diversity of the American religious
experience in its historical development as well as its
contemporary manifestations. It will undoubtedly become a
widely-used resource in teaching about American religious history."
Peter W. Williams, Miami University

"Porterfield has skillfully constructed this wide-ranging
collection of historical essays and documents to demonstrate how
the American religious experience has manifested over time both an
amazing diversity and an underlying thematic unity." Ava
Chamberlain, Wright State University

"I enjoyed reading this book; I found the selections interesting
and challenging and I believe students would as well. Porterfield
has written her introductions to each section fairly and with
integrity. This is a fine reader, with the potential to raise
important questions about both religious history and personal
belief." H-Net Reviews

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: coherent • Country • differences • Documents • Editor • Essays • freedom • Geschichte • Guarantee • historical reader • History • History of Religion • institutional • legal • nine • outstanding • Picture • prolific • Religionsgeschichte • Religionssoziologie • Religious • religious diversity • respect • Sociology • Sociology of Religion • Soziologie • States • tendency • thirty • United
• ISBN-10: 0-470-69281-2 / 0470692812
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69281-3 / 9780470692813