The American religious experience : a concise history / Lynn Bridgers
- Author
- Bridgers, Lynn, 1956-
- Published
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (268 pages)
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- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Calvin in New England -- Piety in Pennsylvania -- John Wesley and the Methodists -- Jonathan Edwards, Congregationalism, and the Evangelical tradition -- The Amish and the Mennonites -- The Quakers and the Shakers -- Bacon, Swedenborg, and Transcendentalism -- Catholic--anti-Catholic -- American Judaism -- Anglican to Episcopal -- Lutherans, Germans, and Scandinavians -- Evolution of the Black Church -- Baptists and baptism -- Pentecostals and the Holiness Movement -- The California missions and the Hispanic Southwest -- Raids, ghosts, and renewal -- Mormon country -- Gold mountain -- Pluralism and periphery.
- Summary
- The American Religious Experience is an accessible and unique rendition of American religious history. Focusing on Christianity in America, it also integrates the inter-religious, inter-denominational and multi-cultural dimensions of American religious history. The book unfolds consistent tensions between dominant streams of American Christianity and groups relegated to the periphery - groups with roots in visionary traditions, emotionalized religious practice, or ethnic and racial perspectives.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780742583535 (electronic bk.)
0742583538 (electronic bk.)
1299795447 (ebk)
9781299795440 (ebk)
0742550583
9780742550582
0742550591 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742550599 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index.
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