A Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1877

by Gaustad, Edwin S.

• ISBN13: 9780802822307
• ISBN10: 0802822304
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	xix
Preface to the Second Edition	xx
Preface to the First Edition	xxi
Illustrations	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxvi
CHAPTER SEVEN A New Religious Landscape	1	(86)
1. Bound for the Promised Land	6	(29)
The Ocean's Bounty	6	(7)
Europe	6	(4)
Asia	10	(3)
Roman Catholicism	13	(11)
Education	13	(4)
Ethnicity	17	(4)
Liberty	21	(3)
Judaism	24	(11)
Education	24	(5)
Organization	29	(6)
2. Women's Work?	35	(12)
Pulpit	35	(4)
Society	39	(4)
Academy	43	(4)
3. The West	47	(14)
Western Indians	47	(5)
Pierre Jean De Smet and the Sioux	47	(3)
Sheldon Jackson, John Brady, and Alaskas Natives	50	(2)
"Western Orthodoxy": Russia in America	52	(6)
Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska	52	(4)
Russian Orthodoxy in Western America	56	(2)
"Western" Orient: Asia in Hawaii	58	(3)
4. A New World - Abroad and at Home	61	(26)
Empire or Republic: Spanish-American War	61	(6)
For Republic	61	(1)
For Empire	62	(2)
"The Philippine Question"	64	(3)
A New Enthusiasm for Mission	67	(4)
Missionary Review of the World	67	(2)
Women Missionary Mobilization	69	(2)
World's Parliament of Religions	71	(7)
Hinduism	71	(2)
Buddhism	73	(3)
Islam	76	(2)
The Uses of Diversity	78	(6)
Census of 1890	78	(1)
African-American Expansion	79	(1)
American Dream	80	(4)
Suggested Reading	84	(3)
CHAPTER EIGHT Religion and Society Engaged	87	(106)
1. Love and Justice	93	(32)
Redeeming the City	93	(11)
Josiah Strong	93	(1)
Washington Gladden	94	(3)
John Lancaster Spalding	97	(1)
Samuel S. Mayerberg	98	(4)
In His Steps	102	(2)
Redeeming the Factory	104	(10)
Frederic Dan Huntington	104	(2)
James Cardinal Gibbons	106	(3)
Walter Rauschenbusch	109	(2)
Pastoral Letter, 1920	111	(1)
Commission on Social Justice, 1928	112	(2)
Redeeming the Land	114	(11)
Walter Rauschenbusch	114	(3)
Edward McGlynn	117	(2)
Richard T. Ely	119	(2)
George D. Herron	121	(1)
John A. Ryan	122	(3)
2. War and Peace	125	(17)
Ploughshares to Swords: World War I	125	(7)
"To Love Is to Hate"	125	(3)
The Madness of Men	128	(3)
"The Lessons of War"	131	(1)
Peace and Disarmament	132	(10)
Church Peace Union	132	(2)
Kirby Page and the Churches	134	(4)
Frank Buchman and Moral Re-Armament	138	(4)
3. Evangelization of the World	142	(26)
Protestant Empire Revived	142	(6)
John R. Mott	142	(2)
Robert E. Speer	144	(3)
E. Stanley Jones	147	(1)
American Catholicism's New Era	148	(7)
Missionary Conference, 1908	148	(4)
Maryknoll, 1911	152	(3)
The Disinherited Abroad	155	(9)
Black Baptists, 1903	155	(3)
Mormons, 1904	158	(4)
Persecuted Witnesses, 1934	162	(2)
Missions Reevaluated	164	(4)
W.H.P. Faunce	164	(1)
William E. Hocking	165	(3)
4. New Structures	168	(25)
Comforting the Afflicted	168	(10)
Salvation Army	168	(4)
The "Y" Movement	172	(2)
Society of St. Vincent de Paul	174	(2)
Jewish Welfare Board	176	(2)
Gathering the Divided	178	(5)
Federal Council and Christian Cooperation	178	(2)
National Catholicism	180	(1)
Cooperative Judaism	181	(2)
Drying Out the Republic	183	(5)
Billy Sunday	183	(2)
Anti-Saloon League	185	(3)
Suggested Reading	188	(5)
CHAPTER NINE Worlds Within and Beyond	193	(110)
1. Private Religion	199	(28)
Inspirational Reading: Lives of Jesus	199	(7)
The Greatest Story Ever Told	199	(3)
The Nazarene	202	(2)
The Robe	204	(2)
Bible Reading and Daily Meditation	206	(5)
Advice to Catholic Girls	206	(3)
A Protestant "Book of Hours"	209	(2)
The Inner Life	211	(6)
Prayer	211	(1)
Mysticism	212	(2)
Contemplation	214	(3)
One Day in Seven	217	(4)
"Remember the Sabbath Day"	217	(2)
"And on the First Day of the Week ..."	219	(2)
Popular Preaching	221	(6)
G. Campbell Morgan	221	(1)
George W. Truett	222	(1)
Francis J. McConnell	223	(2)
Henry S. Coffin	225	(2)
2. New Thought and New Thoughts	227	(25)
Theosophy and New Thought	227	(7)
H.P. Blavatsky	227	(3)
Warren Felt Evans	230	(2)
Ralph Waldo Trine	232	(2)
Institutions of New Thought	234	(8)
Christian Science	234	(3)
Unity School of Christianity	237	(2)
Church of Religious Science	239	(3)
Peace and Prosperity	242	(3)
Acres of Diamonds	242	(1)
You Can Win	243	(2)
Psychology and Religion	245	(7)
Emmanuel Movement	245	(2)
Physicians of the Soul	247	(3)
What Spiritual Healing Is	250	(2)
3. Society Out of point	252	(26)
Unsafe for Democracy	252	(16)
American Protective Association and Immigration	252	(4)
The Klans Americanism	256	(7)
Rum and Rome	263	(5)
Unsure of Capitalism	268	(10)
Economic Disaster	268	(4)
Christian Love	272	(3)
Political Realism	275	(3)
4. World Out of Time	278	(25)
Revivalism	278	(6)
Dwight L. Moody	278	(3)
Sam Jones	281	(1)
Billy Sunday	282	(2)
Millennialism	284	(7)
Jehovah's Witnesses	284	(2)
Foursquare Gospel	286	(2)
Dispensationalism	288	(3)
Holiness and Pentecostalism	291	(7)
Doctrine	291	(3)
Experience	294	(3)
Cure of Souls	297	(1)
Suggested Reading	298	(5)
CHAPTER TEN Religion and the Life of the Mind	303	(136)
1. Philosophy and Religion	308	(14)
William James	308	(4)
Josiah Royce	312	(2)
Alfred North Whitehead	314	(3)
John Dewey	317	(2)
George Santayana	319	(3)
2. Science and Religion	322	(31)
Confrontation	322	(11)
John W. Draper	322	(2)
John Wesley Powell	324	(3)
T. DeWitt Talmage	327	(3)
James Cardinal Gibbons	330	(3)
Mediation	333	(10)
Joseph Le Conte	333	(3)
James McCosh	336	(2)
B.B. Warfield	338	(3)
John Augustine Zahm	341	(2)
Litigation: The Scopes Trial	343	(10)
Clarence Darrow	344	(2)
William Jennings Bryan	346	(2)
Kirtley F. Mather	348	(2)
Bryan	350	(3)
3. Studying and Reading the Bible	353	(38)
Text and Context	353	(11)
"Bibles with the Bible"	353	(3)
Origins of the New Testament	356	(2)
"A Jewish Interpretation"	358	(2)
"The New Approach"	360	(4)
Reactions and Results	364	(13)
Protestant Trials	364	(6)
Catholic Concerns	370	(2)
Biblical Societies and Studies	372	(5)
New Bible Translations	377	(14)
Bible Translations Explained	377	(9)
Bible Translations Illustrated	386	(5)
4. Modernism/Fundamentalism	391	(28)
Roman Catholicism	391	(10)
Battle of the Bishops	391	(5)
Rome Speaks - and Is Spoken To	396	(5)
Protestantism	401	(5)
Christianity and Liberalism	401	(3)
The Faith of Modernism	404	(2)
Judaism	406	(13)
Reform Platforms	406	(6)
Conservative Approaches	412	(7)
5. Theological Aftermath	419	(20)
Neo-Orthodoxy	419	(7)
H. Richard Niebuhr	419	(3)
Paul Tillich	422	(4)
Neo-Thomism	426	(6)
The French Philosophers	426	(5)
An American Perspective	431	(1)
Neo-Fundamentalism: Evangelical Responsibility	432	(4)
Suggested Reading	436	(3)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Consensus and Conflict	439	(136)
1. The World and Its Wars	446	(38)
Legacy of World War II	446	(6)
Hiroshima	446	(3)
Holocaust	449	(3)
Zionism and the State of Israel	452	(11)
"Let Sovereignty Be Granted"	452	(2)
"Zionism in America"	454	(3)
"Fighting for Israel"	457	(1)
"After Zionism"	458	(5)
Fighting Communism: Hot Wars and Cold	463	(10)
Cold War	463	(2)
Vietnam	465	(5)
Cold War Ended	470	(3)
War in the Gulf	473	(11)
Desert Storm, 1991	473	(5)
Iraqi Freedom, 2003	478	(6)
2. Society and Its Conflicts, 1950's and 1960's	484	(25)
Communism and the Churches	484	(6)
"Reds and Our Churches"	484	(3)
"I Protest"	487	(3)
Civil Rights and the Churches	490	(8)
Martin Luther King, Jr.	490	(4)
Black Manifesto, 1969	494	(2)
Response to Racism and Manifesto	496	(2)
Politics and Religion - 1960's	498	(6)
"A Roman Catholic for President?"	498	(3)
"It Is My Job to Face It ..."	501	(3)
Moral Responsibility and Religion	504	(5)
The Great Society	504	(2)
The Betrayed Society	506	(3)
3. The Nation and Its Churches	509	(50)
The Ecumenical Age	509	(14)
National Council and World Council	509	(5)
Consultation on Church Union/Churches Uniting in Christ	514	(2)
The Lausanne Covenant	516	(7)
Strife in the Denominations	523	(12)
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod	523	(5)
The Southern Baptist Convention	528	(7)
Vatican II and Beyond	535	(17)
"Pope Johns "Revolution"'	535	(4)
Liturgical Renewal	539	(4)
Religious Liberty	543	(4)
Ecumenism Outlined	547	(2)
Ecumenism Practiced	549	(3)
Eastern Orthodoxy and American Culture	552	(7)
Ethnicity and Religion	552	(3)
Elusive Unity	555	(2)
At the Start of a New Century	557	(2)
4. Revival and Retreat	559	(16)
Postwar Revivalism: Billy Graham	559	(4)
Theological Retreat	563	(6)
Peace and Positive Thoughts	563	(3)
The Death of God	566	(2)
Religious Humanism	568	(1)
Suggested Reading	569	(6)
CHAPTER TWELVE E Pluribus ... Unum?	575	(172)
1. Pluralism Plus	584	(24)
The Far East and the Near East in America	584	(12)
Buddhism	584	(6)
Islam	590	(6)
Fatal Movements	596	(7)
Jonestown	596	(4)
Branch Davidians	600	(3)
Neopaganism: The Circle	603	(5)
2. Liberation/Alienation	608	(30)
African-Americans	608	(5)
Liberation Theology	608	(2)
Muslim Theology	610	(3)
Hispanics	613	(7)
Unity in Pluralism	613	(3)
A Pastoral Plan	616	(2)
Hispanic Evangelicals	618	(2)
Native Americans	620	(3)
Indian Religious Freedom Act, 1978	620	(1)
Ecclesiastical Support	621	(2)
Women	623	(15)
Judaism	623	(5)
Mormonism	628	(3)
Roman Catholicism	631	(3)
Conservatives	634	(4)
3. Litigation/Division	638	(41)
Education	638	(11)
Prayer and Meditation	638	(2)
A Conservative Court and Separation	640	(2)
Equal Access as "Free Exercise"	642	(7)
Religious Freedom Restoration	649	(6)
Religious Freedom Constrained	649	(2)
Religious Freedom Restoration Act	651	(2)
Judicial Setback	653	(2)
Contraception and Abortion	655	(17)
Contraception: Humanae Vitae	655	(5)
Abortion: The Courts, 1973, 1989, 1992	660	(6)
Abortion: The Churches, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1996	666	(6)
Homosexuality and the Churches	672	(7)
4. Religion and the Public Order	679	(30)
Religious Dimensions of Public Life	679	(11)
Religious Belief and Public Morality	679	(3)
A Reformulated "Christian America"?	682	(3)
Religion and the Ballot, 1996	685	(2)
Religion and the Ballot, 2000	687	(3)
Presidents	690	(11)
Jimmy Carter	690	(4)
Ronald Reagan	694	(2)
Bill Clinton	696	(4)
George W. Bush	700	(1)
September 11, 2001	701	(8)
5. Into the New Millennium	709	(38)
Institutional Religion	709	(8)
Promise Keepers	709	(2)
The Black Church	711	(3)
Willow Creek	714	(3)
Drawing Boundaries	717	(6)
Lakota Nation	717	(3)
Jewish Students at Yale	720	(3)
Y2K and Beyond	723	(5)
Trauma within Catholicism	728	(6)
Crisis	728	(3)
Voice of the Faithful	731	(3)
Theology in the New Century	734	(6)
Mormons	734	(2)
Mestizaje	736	(4)
Suggested Reading	740	(7)
Index	747