In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.Series Editor's Preface.
About the Contributors.
Introduction.
Part I: Historical Essays.
1. Errand Into the Wilderness. (Perry Miller).
2. Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combination, and American Religious History. (Catherine L. Albanese).
3. Shouting Methodists. (Ann Taves).
4. Protestantism as Establishment. (William R. Hutchison).
5. American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity. (Randall Balmer).
6. Catholicism and American Culture: Strategies for Survival. (Jay P. Dolan).
7. Conservative Judaism. (Gerson D. Cohen).
8. Introduction, The Faces of Buddhism in America. (Charles S. Prebish).
9. Striving for Muslim Women's Human Rights – Before and Beyond Beijing: An African American Perspective. (Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons).
Part II: Primary Documents.
10. A Model of Christian Charity (1630). (John Winthrop).
11. Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (1637).
12. A Key into the Language of America (1643). (Roger Williams).
13. Poems (1640–1665). (Anne Bradstreet).
14. The Nature of True Virtue (1765). (Jonathan Edwards).
15. Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779). (Thomas Jefferson).
16. The Code of Handsome Lake (Ca.1800). (Edward Cornplanter).
17. What a Revival of Religion Is (1834). (Charles Grandison Finney).
18. The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836). (Jarena Lee).
19. Nature (1836). (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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