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Religion in American History
. Ed(S): Butler, Jon; Stout, Harry S.
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Description for Religion in American History
Paperback. Offering a selection of classic and recent scholarship, this reader presents a portrait of religion's fate across four centuries of the American experience. Topics include American-Indian religion, women, Catholics, Protestants and fundamentalism, Judaism and political activism. Editor(s): Butler, Jon; Stout, Harry S. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAC; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 779.
Offering a rich selection of classic and recent scholarship, this reader presents an extraordinary portrait of religion's fate across four centuries of the American experience. Its essays cover major issues in American history and religion, including American Indian religion, women, Catholics, Protestants and fundamentalism, Judaism, political activism, Mormons, religious assimilation, and religious bigotry. Selected debates encourage readers to test conflicting interpretations about religion's impact on American history, and original documents trace religion's influence on slavery, race, and politics from the colonial era to the late 20th century. Religion in American History serves as a one-volume tour through America's tumultuous, varied, and often misunderstood religious past.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195097764
SKU
V9780195097764
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About . Ed(S): Butler, Jon; Stout, Harry S.
Jon Butler is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990), The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society (1990), Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order: The English Churches in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1730 (1978), and numerous articles and essays. Harry S. Stout is Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity at Yale University and the John B. Madden Master of Berkeley College. He is the general editor of OUP's Religion and America Series and co-editor of New Directions in American Religious History (OUP, 1997). He is author of The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (OUP, 1986), and co-editor of Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience (OUP, 1988), and Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture (OUP, 1993).
Reviews for Religion in American History
"A rich collection of documents and interpretative essays that provides an excellent window on the pluralistic reality of the American religious experience."
R. Emmott Curran, Georgetown University "An interesting, provocative, and highly readable treatment of various expressions of American religion from an historical perspective. Written by two esteemed scholars in the field, this book will cause historians of American religion to reconsider some of their long-held presuppositions and conclusions."
Lewis V. Baldwin, Vanderbilt University "Excellent selection of essays on American religious themes. I find it extremely useful for both graduate and undergraduate courses."
Rev. Thomas J. Shelley, Fordham University "A rich panoply of important articles and source documents on key issues, movements, changes of mind and leadership in the history of American religion."
Paul Bushnell, Illinois Wesleyan University "An excellent selection of essays on religion in America and a convenient, one-volume edition for more extensive research in American History survey courses."
Dan O'Bryan, Sierra Nevada College "Nice collection. Good balance. Excellent introductions....Should find wide use."
Greald M. Schnabel, Bemidji State University "Quite a useful volume
includes a number of hard-to-find essays. Well selected."
David Hein, Hood College "Very attractive and well thought out collection."
Timothy Miller, University of Kansas "Excellent sourcebook for history of religion in America and its influence on American cultural ethos."
Glenn Kreider, The Criswell College
R. Emmott Curran, Georgetown University "An interesting, provocative, and highly readable treatment of various expressions of American religion from an historical perspective. Written by two esteemed scholars in the field, this book will cause historians of American religion to reconsider some of their long-held presuppositions and conclusions."
Lewis V. Baldwin, Vanderbilt University "Excellent selection of essays on American religious themes. I find it extremely useful for both graduate and undergraduate courses."
Rev. Thomas J. Shelley, Fordham University "A rich panoply of important articles and source documents on key issues, movements, changes of mind and leadership in the history of American religion."
Paul Bushnell, Illinois Wesleyan University "An excellent selection of essays on religion in America and a convenient, one-volume edition for more extensive research in American History survey courses."
Dan O'Bryan, Sierra Nevada College "Nice collection. Good balance. Excellent introductions....Should find wide use."
Greald M. Schnabel, Bemidji State University "Quite a useful volume
includes a number of hard-to-find essays. Well selected."
David Hein, Hood College "Very attractive and well thought out collection."
Timothy Miller, University of Kansas "Excellent sourcebook for history of religion in America and its influence on American cultural ethos."
Glenn Kreider, The Criswell College