From the beginning of European settlement to the effects of political independence
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From the beginning of European settlement to the effects of political independence
（The Helm Information literary sources & documents series, . American religion : literary sources & documents ; v. 1）
Helm Information, c1998
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Includes chronology (p. 76-94) and bibliographical references (p. 95-124)
Contents of Works
- Good newes from Virginia / Alexander Whitaker
- Wonder working providence of Sion's saviour / Edward Johnson
- The triumphs of the reformed religion in America / Cotton Mather
- Some thoughts concerning the revival of religion in New England / Jonathan Edwards
- The United States elevated to glory and honor / Ezra Stiles
- The mayflower compact
- The Charlestown church compact
- The half-way covenant
- Charter of privileges for the province and counties of Pennsylvania / William Penn
- A letter to Mr. Williams / John Cotton
- Mr. Cottons letter, examined and answered / Roger Williams
- Survey of the summe of church discipline / Thomas Hooker
- The Cambridge platform
- A discourse about civil government in a new plantation whose design is religion / John Davenport
- Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith, and an union in the church of God by love, importunately pressed / Cotton Mather
- New England judged, not by man's, but the spirit of the lord / George Bishop
- Remarkable preservation / Increase Mather
- Sorcery 1695–1738 / Ezra Michener
- An astronomical diary / Nathaniel Ames
- A treatise on magic / Frederick Quitman
- A letter / Fray Francisco Corbera
- Letters to the provincial / Fray Francisco de Vargas
- Question whether God is not angry with the country for doing so little towards the conversion of the Indians? / Solomon Stoddard
- Some account of the conduct of the religious society of friends towards the Indian tribe / Aborigines committee of the meeting for sufferings
- An exhortation & caution to friends concerning buying or keeping of Negroes / George Keith
- After baptizatus : or, The Negro turn'd Christian / Anthony Hill
- Two sermons preached to a congregation of Black slaves / Thomas Bacon
- A letter / Samuel Davies
- Letter to Elias Boudinot in relation to the testimony of Quakers against Negro slavery / Samuel Allinson
- Letters of Dutch ministers from New Netherlands / Johannes Megapolensis and Samuel Drissius
- The charitable Samaritan, a sermon / Ezechiel Carré
- Organization / Ezra Michener
- A just and cleere refutation of a false and scandalous pamphlet entitled Babylons fall in Maryland, &c / John Langford
- The coming of the Acadians / Thomas Hutchinson
- The diary of John Comer / John Comer
- A letter / Conrad Beissel
- Some account of the principles of the Moravians / Gilbert Tennent
- Exchange of letters between the Jewish congregation of newport and George Washington / George Washington & others
- The acts of Dr. Bray's visitation held at Annapolis in Mary-land / Thomas Bray
- An account of the state of the church in North America / George Keith and others
- Observations on the charter and conduct of the S. P. G. / Jonathan Mayhew
- A review of Dr. Mayhew's remarks / East Apthorp
- A letter / Dr. Burton
- Presbytery and school
- Problems of growth
- The great awakening / Joseph Tracy
- George Whitefield's journals / George Whitefield
- The distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God / William Cooper
- The late religious commotions in New England considered / Charles Chauncy or William Rand
- Confessions and retractions / James Davenport
- The snare broken / Jonathan Mayhew
- Religious liberty an invaluable blessing / Amos Adams
- Government corrupted by vice, and recovered by righteousness / Samuel Langdon
- War / Ezra Michener
- A letter / Charles Inglis
- The church's flight into the wilderness / Samuel Sherwood
- An address to the members of the protestant episcopal church of Maryland / William Smith
- Reason the only oracle of man / Ethan Allen
- The journal of the Francis Asbury / Francis Asbury
- The principles of civil union and happiness considered and recommended / Elizur Goodrich
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This set offers a wide range of primary source material spanning several centuries of religious experience in the United States. The material is grouped thematically and chronologically with a critical apparatus which includes a substantial introductory essay giving an overview of the subject, a chronology, and bibliographies.
Table of Contents
- Volume I From the beginnings of European settlement to the effects of political independence: colonists as a chosen people
- the covenant idea - Maylower compact, the Charleston Church compact, half-way covenant, William Penn
- Church organization, discipline and dissent
- popular beliefs
- Christianity and Native Americans
- Christianity and African-Americans
- religious pluralism - growth and tensions
- colonical Anglicanism and Presbyterianism
- the Great awakening
- religion and revolution
- some effects of revolution. Volume II Religion in the new nation - revolution to reconstruction: the separation of Church and state
- development of religious rationalism
- the voluntary principle in operation
- the second great awakening and revivals
- religion and antebellum reform
- outside the Protestant mainstream
- religion and Romantic culture
- Native American religion
- religion, the Civil War and reconstruction. Part III Modern American religion since the late-19th century: scene setting - urban revivalism and immigrant religiosity
- new immigrants - Catholicism
- new immigrants - Judaism
- religion in urban industrial society
- moral behaviour and political action - religion and prohibition
- faith in a changing world
- new thought and therapeutic religion
- black Churches and sects
- religion and race relations
- Eastern religions in America
- modern evangelicism, radical and conservative Christianity.
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