Critical issues in American religious history
Robert R. Mathisen (Other)
American society continually struggles with its religious past. The primary and secondary materials included in this volume track religious America's efforts to articulate its identity and destiny and implement its religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society.
Print Book, English, 2006
2. rev. ed View all formats and editions
Baylor University Press, Waco, Tex, 2006
XIX, 799 S.
9781932792393, 1932792392
255500907
Interpreting religion in America -- Religion in early America -- The era of the great awakening -- Religious America in the American Revolution -- American religion in the middle period -- American religion in the antebellum frontier West -- Slavery and American religion -- Religion and America's Civil War -- The encounter between religion and science -- Religion in industrializing America -- Religion and American empire-building -- Fundamentalism vs. modernism -- American religious ferment during the depression era -- American religion from World War II to Vietnam -- Religion and the civil rights movement -- Religion and the search for American stability. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 795-796)