ABSTRACT
This set offers a wide range of primary source material spanning several centuries of religious experience in the United States. The material is grouped thematically and chronologically with a critical apparatus which includes a substantial introductory essay giving an overview of the subject, a chronology, and bibliographies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Volume I: From the Beginning of European Settlement to the Effects of Political Independence
part
Colonists as a Chosen People
part
The Covenant Idea
part
Church Organization, Discipline, and Dissent
part
Popular Beliefs
part
Christianity and Native Americans
part
Christianity and African-Americans
part
Religious Pluralism: Growth and Tensions
part
Colonial Anglicanism and Presbyterianism
part
The Great Awakening
part
Religion and Revolution
part
Some Effects of Revolution
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Volume II: Religion in the New Nation: Revolution to Reconstruction
part
The Separation of Church and State
part
The Development of Religious Rationalism
part
The Voluntary Principle in Operation
part
The Second Great Awakening and Revivals
part
Religion and Antebellum Reform
part
Outside the Protestant Mainstream
part
Religion and Romantic Culture
part
Native American Religion
part
Religion, The Civil War, and Reconstruction
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Volume III: Modern American Religion since the late Nineteenth Century
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Scene Setting: Urban Revivalism and Immigrant Religiosity
part
New Immigrants: Catholicism
part
New Immigrants: Judaism
part
Religion in Urban Industrial Society
part
Moral Behaviour and Political Action: Religion and Prohibition
part
Faith in a Changing World
part
New Thought and Therapeutic Religion
part
Black Churches and Sects
part
Religion and Race Relations
part
Eastern Religions in America
part
Modern Evangelism, Radical and Conservative Christianity
