A companion to American religious history / edited by Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, USA.
Contributor(s): Park, Benjamin E [editor.]
Language: English Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to American historyPublisher: Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781119583660; 9781119583707; 9781119583677Subject(s): United States -- Religion -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 200.973 LOC classification: BL2525Online resources: Full text is available at Wiley Online Library Click here to viewItem type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Contributors ix
1 The Centrality, Diversity, and Malleability of American Religion 1
Benjamin E. Park
Part I Colonialisms 7
2 Nemasket/Middleborough and Religious Diversity in Colonial New England 9
Richard J. Boles
3 A View from the Philadelphia Barracks: Religion in the Mid‐Atlantic 25
Rachel Wheeler
4 Africana Religions in Early America 44
Jason R. Young
Part II Establishment 57
5 The Loyalist Church of England Clergy and the Politics of Martyrdom in the American Revolution 59
Peter W. Walker
6 Freeborn Garrettson’s Revolution: Religion and the American War for Independence 71
Christopher Cannon Jones
7 The First Wall of Separation between Church and State: Slavery and Disestablishment in Late‐Eighteenth‐Century Virginia 87
Sarah Barringer Gordon
8 Abraham Remembered: An African Captivity Tale in Early America 102
Jon F. Sensbach
9 The White River Witch‐Hunt and Indigenous Peoples’ Negotiations with Missionaries in the Era of the Early Republic 114
Lori J. Daggar
10 The Shakers and the Perfecting Spirit in Early America 128
Jennifer H. Dorsey
Part III Expansion 137
11 David Walker and Black Prophetic Religion 139
Christopher Cameron
12 “Down with the Convent!”: Anti‐Catholicism and Opposition to Nuns in Antebellum America 150
Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
13 Ecclesiology and the Varieties of Romanticism in American Christianity, 1825–1850 165
Brent S. Sirota
14 Being Haudenosaunee: Seeing Indigenous Ontology Under American Settler Colonialism 179
Christian Gonzales
15 Mormons and Territorial Politics in the American Civil War Era 191
Brent M. Rogers
16 Black Christianity after Emancipation 206
Nicole Myers Turner
Part IV Imperialism 223
17 In Search of a “Working Class Religion”: Religion, Economic Reform, and Social Justice 225
Janine Giordano Drake
18 The Businessman’s Gospel: Making Business Christian 239
Nicole C. Kirk
19 The Prohibition Crusade and American Moral Politics 252
Joseph L. Locke
20 Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Among Early Pentecostals 265
Arlene M. Sanchez‐Walsh
21 Religion and US Federal Indian Policy 276
Sarah Dees
22 “For the Good of Mankind”: Atomic Exceptionalism, Religion, and United States Empire in the Postwar Pacific 287
Carleigh Beriont
Part V Modernity 299
23 The Hate That Hate Produced: Representing Black Religion in the Twentieth Century 301
Vaughn A. Booker
24 The Pentagon Exorcism: 1960s Counter‐Culture and the Occult Revival 317
Joseph P. Laycock
25 Native American Christians and the Varieties of Modern Pentecostalism 329
Angela Tarango
26 Sex, Politics, and the Rise of the New Christian Right 341
Emily Suzanne Johnson
27 Immigration and Religion Among Chinese Americans, 1965 to the Present 355
Melissa May Borja
28 Modern Judaism and the Golden Age of Television 371
Jennifer Caplan
Index 383
"The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History consists of roughly thirty original essays on critical themes and topics in American religious history. There will be three primary points of emphasis: the centrality of religion to American cultural, political, social, racial, gender, and intellectual history; the diversity of religious expressions across regions, races, and denominations; and the role of religion in eras of historical change. Though more microhistorical in approach, and historically bound in framework, chapters will glean broader lessons concerning the volume's larger themes and address questions typically asked in American history courses. The recent generation of scholars have produced a plethora of exciting and revisionist interpretations in the field, and this volume will condense and explain them for anew generation of readers. In a world still struggling to define the parameters of pluralism, this edited collection provides both a historical genealogy for the various traditions as well as meaning for its many expressions. A Companion to American Religious HIstory will serve as a resource for teachers, especially those who do not teach American religous history but who wish to expose their students to the significance, variety, and malleability of America's religious past"-- Provided by publisher.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BENJAMIN E. PARK is Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA. 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.
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