A Companion to American Religious History

ISBN-13: 9781119583660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str.

Benjamin E. Park

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IntroductionThe Centrality, Diversity, and Malleability of American ReligionBenjamin ParkPart 1: ColonialismsNemasket/Middleborough and Religious Diversity in Colonial New EnglandRichard BolesA View from the Philadelphia Barracks: Religion in the Mid-AtlanticRachel WheelerAfricana Religions in Early AmericaJason YoungPart 2: EstablishmentThe Loyalist Church of England Clergy and the Politics of Martyrdom in the American RevolutionPeter WalkerFreeborn Garrettson's Revolution: Religion and the American War for IndependenceChristopher JonesThe First Wall of Separation between Church and State: Slavery and Disestablishment in Late-Eighteenth-Century VirginiaSarah Barringer GordonAbraham Remembered: An African Captivity Tale in Early AmericaJon SensbachThe White River Witch-Hunt and Indigenous Peoples' Negotiations with Missionaries in the Era of the Early RepublicLori DaggarThe Shakers and the Perfecting Spirit in Early AmericaJennifer DorseyPart 3: ExpansionDavid Walker and Black Prophetic ReligionChristopher CameronDown with the Convent!": Anti-Catholicism and Opposition to Nuns in Antebellum AmericaCassandra YacovazziEcclesiology and the Varieties of Romanticism in American Christianity, 1825-1850Brent SirotaBeing Haudenosaunee: Seeing Indigenous Ontology Under American Settler ColonialismChristian GonzalesMormons and Territorial Politics in the American Civil War EraBrent M. RogersBlack Christianity after EmancipationNicole Myers TurnerPart 4: ImperialismIn Search of a "Working Class Religion": Religion, Economic Reform, and Social JusticeJanine DrakeThe Businessman's Gospel: Making Business ChristianNicole KirkThe Prohibition Crusade and American Moral PoliticsJoseph LockeRace, Ethnicity and Gender Among Early PentecostalsArlene Sanchez-WalshReligion and U.S. Federal Indian PolicySarah Dees"For the Good of Mankind": Atomic Exceptionalism, Religion, and United States Empire in the Postwar PacificCarleigh BeriontPart 5: ModernityThe Hate that Hate Produced: Representing Black Religion in the Twentieth CenturyVaughn A. BookerThe Pentagon Exorcism: 1960s Counter-Culture and the Occult RevivalJoseph LaycockNative American Christians and the Varieties of Modern PentecostalismAngela TarangoSex, Politics, and the Rise of the New Christian RightEmily Suzanne JohnsonImmigration and Religion Among Chinese Americans, 1965 to the PresentMelissa BorjaModern Judaism and the Golden Age of TelevisionJennifer Caplan

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Benjamin E. Park is Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University, Texas. His articles and essays have been published in Church History, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of American Studies, Washington Post, and Newsweek, amongst others. He is the author of American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833 and Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier.