Religion in the new nation : revolution to reconstruction
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Religion in the new nation : revolution to reconstruction
（The Helm Information literary sources & documents series, . American religion : literary sources & documents ; v. 2）
Helm Information, c1998
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Contents of Works
- Bill for establishing religious freedom in Virginia / Thomas Jefferson
- A memorial and remonstrance / James Madison
- A door opened for equal Christian liberty / Isaac Backus
- The voluntary principle / Robert Baird
- The age of reason / Thomas Paine
- First annual report of the executive committee of the American Unitarian Association
- Universalists / A. B. Grosch
- Evidences of christianity concluded / Abner Kneeland
- The voluntary principle developed in home missions / Robert Baird
- Sunday schools and other societies / Robert Baird
- The Baptists / F. A. Cox and J. Hoby
- Remarks upon ministerial education / Charles G. Finney
- Account of a revival / Andrew Reed and James Matheson
- Camp-meeting / Frances Trollope
- On religious meetings, women and reform / Theodore Weld
- Revivals, & tc. / An English Layman
- Foreign immigration as an obstacle to the voluntary system / Robert Baird
- Remarks on the disposition which now prevails to form associations and to accomplish all objects by organized masses / William Ellery Channing
- Letter on the penitentiary system of Pennsylvania / Roberts Vaux
- Religion and the pure principles of morality / Maria W. Stewart
- Address to the citizens of the United States of America on the subject of slavery from the yearly meeting of the religious society of friends
- Diary entry / Thomas P. Cope
- Letter to the editor of the Christian witness / William Lloyd Garrison
- Confessions / John Humphrey Noyes
- Discourse on woman / Lucretia Mott
- From a letter / Elias Hicks
- Shakers / Thomas Brown
- The Matthias delusion / Sojourner Truth
- Second advent believers / N. Southard
- The secret of Swedenborg / Henry James Sr
- Latter day Saints / Joseph Smith
- The Mormon religion / Sir Richard Burton
- Practical religion / James Talmage
- Pioneers to eternity : Norwegians on the prairie / Eugene Boe
- Diary entry / Thomas P. Cope
- The African church / Andrew Reed and James Matheson
- The divinity school address / Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sunday / Henry David Thoreau
- Transcendental wild oats / Louisa May Alcott
- Recent recollections of the Anglo-American church / An English Layman
- Account of the Northern Cheyennes concerning the messiah superstition / George B. Grinnell
- The doctine of the Ghost dance / James Mooney
- The sun dance of the Hekandika Shoshone / E. Adamson Hoebel
- Our national sins / James Thornwell
- The crisis of our national disease / Henry W. Bellows
- The battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe
- Proclamation national fast day : meditation on the divine will / Abraham Lincoln
- The church and slavery / R. L. Stanton
- An account of a meeting of Black religious leaders with the secretary of war and the comannder of the military division of Mississippi
- The marriage ceremony / Elizabeth Botume
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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