America Religions and Religion

by Albanese, Catherine L.

• ISBN13: 9780534504571
• ISBN10: 0534504574
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Foreward. Preface to the First and Second Editions. Preface to the Third Edition. Introduction: The Elephant in the Dark. Part One: THE MANYNESS OF RELIGIONS IN AMERICA. A. The Original Cast. 1. Original Manyness: Native American Traditions. 2. Israel in a Promised Land: Jewish Religion and Peoplehood. 3. Bread and Mortar: The Presence of Roman Catholicism. 4. Word From the Beginning: American Protestant Origins and the Liberal Tradition. 5. Restoring an Ancient Future: The Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind. 6. Black Center: African-American Religion and Nationhood. B. Newmade in America. 7. Visions of Paradise Planted: Nineteenth-Century New Religions. 8. Homesteads of the Mind: Belief and Practice in Metaphysics. C. 9. East is West: Eastern Peoples and Eastern Religions. 10. Regional Religion: A Case Study of Religion in Appalachia. 11. Fundamentals of the New Age: An Epilogue on Present-Day Pluralism. Part Two: THE ONENESS OF RELIGION IN AMERICA. 12. Public Protestantism: Historical Dominance and the One Religion of the United States. 13. Civil Religion: Millennial Politics and History. 14. Cultural Religion: Millenial Explorations of Dominance and Innocence. Conclusion: Many Centers Meeting. Index.

Table of Contents

Foreward

Preface to the First and Second Editions

Preface to the Third Edition

Introduction: The Elephant in the Dark

Part One: THE MANYNESS OF RELIGIONS IN AMERICA

A

The Original Cast

1. Original Manyness: Native American Traditions

2. Israel in a Promised Land: Jewish Religion and Peoplehood

3. Bread and Mortar: The Presence of Roman Catholicism

4. Word From the Beginning: American Protestant Origins and the Liberal Tradition

5. Restoring an Ancient Future: The Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind

6. Black Center: African-American Religion and Nationhood

B

Newmade in America

7. Visions of Paradise Planted: Nineteenth-Century New Religions

8. Homesteads of the Mind: Belief and Practice in Metaphysics

C

9. East is West: Eastern Peoples and Eastern Religions

10. Regional Religion: A Case Study of Religion in Appalachia

11. Fundamentals of the New Age: An Epilogue on Present-Day Pluralism

Part Two: THE ONENESS OF RELIGION IN AMERICA

12. Public Protestantism: Historical Dominance and the One Religion of the United States

13. Civil Religion: Millennial Politics and History

14. Cultural Religion: Millenial Explorations of Dominance and Innocence

Conclusion: Many Centers Meeting

Index