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 view
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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
Summary: "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.
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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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