Modern American religion since the late nineteenth century

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Modern American religion since the late nineteenth century

edited and with an introduction by David Turley

(The Helm Information literary sources & documents series, . American religion : literary sources & documents ; v. 3)

Helm Information, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • From Church to opera house : a change of tactics / Delavan Leonard Pierson
  • The reporter's conversion / Dwight L. Moody
  • The new immigration : churches / Peter Roberts
  • American priests for Italian missions / John T. MacNicholas
  • The American mission of Frances Xavier Cabrini / James J. Walsh
  • The poles / Peter Roberts
  • Perils—Romanism / Josiah Strong
  • The catholic publication society / Walter Elliott
  • Church, state and school / Joseph V. Tracy
  • The American nationality / Anton Walburg
  • Testem benevolentiae / Pope Leo XIII
  • The church and the republic / Cardinal James Gibbons
  • The spirit of the ghetto / Hutchins Hapgood
  • Living Judaism / Leo Jung
  • The Jewish reform movement in the United States / David Philipson
  • The problem of religious education / Solomon Schechter
  • The duty of American Jews / Louis Lipsky
  • Palestinian or American Judaism? / Kaufmann Kohler
  • This is my God / Herman Wouk
  • Perils—wealth / Josiah Strong
  • Accumulation of riches / Gerald Heuver
  • The knights of labor / Carndinal James Gibbons
  • Social realization of democracy / George D. Herron
  • What to do / Walter Rauschenbusch
  • The industrial revolution / Washington Gladden
  • The teaching of the Catholic Church / John A. Ryan
  • Judaism and the industrial crisis / Sidney E. Goldstein
  • The workingman's alienation from the church / H. Francis Perry
  • Great central parishes and their neighborhood ministries / Ross W. Sanderson
  • Messages to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union / Frances E. Willard
  • Public life and social reform / James Cannon Jr
  • The church and temperance / Walter Elliott
  • Pressure politics : the story of the Anti-saloon league / Peter Odegard
  • The gospel for an age of doubt / Henry Van Dyke
  • The inspiration of the bible / William Jennings Bryan
  • Science and religion / Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • The Kentucky campaign against the teaching of evolution / Alonzo W. Fortune
  • The social gospel / John Horsch
  • Why Temple Baptist Church withdraws from the Northern Baptist Convention / J. Frank Norris
  • Radicalism and religious disinterestedness / Reinhold Niebuhr
  • A fundamentalist sermon by a modernist preachers / Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Science and health / Mary Baker Eddy
  • Christian healing and the people's idea of God / Mary Baker Eddy
  • The new alinement of life / Ralph Waldo Trine
  • Doorways to a new life for you / Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton
  • The function of the Negro church / W. E. B. Du Bois
  • The changing church / Charles S. Johnson
  • Middle class religion / Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake
  • Hoodoo in America / Zora Neale Hurston
  • ‘There goes God!'The story of father divine and his angels / Claude McKay
  • The Moorish Science Temple / Arthur Huff Fauset
  • Methodists' opinions on segregation / Dwight L. Culver
  • Race and racial tension in the church / T. B. Maston
  • Pilgrimage to nonviolence / Martin Luther King
  • The Voodoo cult [Nation of Islam] among Negro migrants in Detroit / Erdmann Doane Beynon
  • The Black revolution / Malcolm X
  • Letters from abroad / Malcolm X
  • We are God's chosen people / Albert B. Cleage Jr
  • The source of Black theology / James H. Cone
  • Black power / Martin Luther King
  • Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii / Kiyoshi K. Kawakami
  • Institutional religion and the children of Asian immigrants / William Carlson Smith
  • What Vedanta means to me / Dorothy F. Mercer
  • Beat Zen, square Zen, Zen / Alan Watts
  • The real threat of the moonies / Harvey Cox
  • We need revival / Billy Graham
  • Radio—‘The lengthened reach' / Torrey Johnson and Robert Cook
  • Declaration at St. Louis of the assemblies of God / William W. Menzies
  • The People's Temple and commitment to change / John V. Moore
  • Consensus society! Consensus church? / Philip Berrigan
  • Letter from a Baltimore jail / Philip Berrigan
  • Letter to the weathermen / Daniel Berrigan
  • The Chicago declaration, 1973 / Erling Jorstad
  • God's own network : the T.V. kingdom of Pat Robertson / Dick Dabney
  • Jerry Falwell on Armageddon / Grace Halsell

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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