Major Problems In American Religious History

by Allitt,Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780495912439
• ISBN10: 0495912433
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780395964194
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

This collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.

Table of Contents

Approaches to American Religious History

Essays

Democracy in America Vol. 1, ôIndirect Influence of Religious Opinions upon Political Society.ö

WomenÆs History is American Religious History

Church Membership Has Increased Throughout American History, Especially in the Most Demanding Groups

European-Indian Encounters

Documents

Bernal Diaz del Castillo Describes CortesÆ Replacement of Human Sacrifice with the Cult of the Virgin Mary, c. 1519. 2. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish Castaway, Becomes an Indian healer, 1542

Joseph Jouvency, a Jesuit Priest, Discusses Death and Hell with Canadian Indians, 1610

Roger Williams Explains Rhode Island IndiansÆ Language and Religion, 1643

Mary Jemison Describes the Five Feasts by Which the Seneca Marked the Changing Seasons, c.1750

Tecaughretanego Explains Why the Great Spirit Sometimes Permits Men to Go Hungry Before Feeding Them, 1758

John Heckwelder Describes the Delaware IndiansÆ View of Bear Spirits, c.1750

John Muir Witnesses the Conversion of Thlinkit Indians to Christianity, c.1876

Essays

The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Civilization

Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees Struggle for a New World

Religious Life in the British Colonies: 1607-1775

Documents

John Winthrop Outlines His Plan for a Godly Settlement, 1630

William Bradford Sees GodÆs Mercy and Judgment in New EnglandÆs Changing Fortunes, 1654

Cotton Mather Advises John Richards on Detecting Witches, 1692

Jonathan Edwards on the beginnings of revival

Nathan Cole on hearing Whitfield

Benjamin Franklin Explains His Religious Views in a Letter, 1756

Charles Woodmason, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution, circa. 1770

Essays

The PuritansÆ Errand into the Wilderness

Heathens and Infidels: African Christianization

Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt

Religion and Revolution: 1775-1795

Documents

Abraham Keteltas, sermon from 1777, ôGod Arising and Pleading His PeopleÆs Cause.ö 2. Jonathan BoucherÆs Loyalist Sermon Denounces the Revolution, 1775

Anthony Benezet, Quaker, Denounces War, 1776

Isaac Backus, History of New England Baptists

Lucy Wight Meets Shaker Leader Mother Ann Lee, (c. 1780), 1826

Thomas Jefferson Establishes Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1786

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, Federalist 51

Essays

Religion and American

Deists

How the Revolution Stimulated New Religious Movements

Religion in the Early Republic: 1790-1850

Documents

Peter Cartwright, Autobiography, 1856

Charles Grandison Finney Stirs Up Religious Emotions at Revival Meetings, 1835

Joseph Smith Explains How an Angel Guided Him to Found the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), 1842

Ralph Waldo Emerson Describes the ôOver-Soul,ö 1841

Anonymous Ex-Slave Sees the Ghost of Her Dead Master c.1850

Henry Bibb, a Slave, Uses Conjuring to Prevent Harm and Attract Women, 1849

Samuel Ringgold Ward Escapes from Slavery and Becomes a Minister (1820), 1855

Essays

Awash in a Sea of Faith

The SlavesÆ Own Religion

Immigrants and Reformers

Documents

Alexis de Tocqueville Sees Catholicism and Democracy as Compatible, 1835

Maria Monk Shocks Protestant Readers with Allegations of Sex and Violence in a Nunnuery, 1836

John Francis Maguire Recounts the Suffering of Irish Catholic Immigrants (1846), 1887

Benajmin Roth Warns His Emigrant Son Solomon About Moral and Religious Dangers in America, 1854

Harriet Beecher Stowe Advocates Enlightened Observance of the Sabbath, 1853

Angelina Grimke Uses the Bible to Justify Abolishing Slavery, 1838

Frederick Douglass Compares Southern SlaveownersÆ Religion with That of Jesus, 1845

Thornton Stringfellow Argues That the Bible Is Pro-slavery, 1860

Essays

American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built AmericaÆs Most Powerful Church

Slaveholders and the Bible.

The Civil War

Documents

John Candler Gregg, union chaplain with the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers

William W. Bennett, Narrative of the Great Revival in the Southern Armies

Thomas Wentworth Higginson Witnesses the Religious Life of Black Soldiers, 1864

George Barton Remembers a Pious Irish-American Nun Nursing the Wounded at Shiloh, 1863

Arthur Howard Noll, Doctor Quintard, Chaplain CSA

Abraham Lincoln, ôGettysburg Addressö and ôSecond Inaugural Address.ö 7. Isaac Lane, From Slave to Preacher Among the Freedmen

Essays

Civil War as Armageddon

Stonewall Jackson and the Providence of God.ö

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War.

Temperance and the New Immigration

Documents

Charles Sheldon, editorials in The Jesus Newspaper: The Christian Experiment of 1900 and its Lessons for Today

Carry Nation, The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation

Booth Tucker Describes the Salvation ArmyÆs Social and Gospel Work in Slums and Saloons, 1900

Rosa, an Immigrant, Contrasts Her Italian Catholicism with the American Version, c. 1890

Abraham Cahan Shows How American Business Life and Religious Pluralism Shattered a Russian Jewish ImmigrantÆs Traditional Faith, 1916

Anzia Yezierska Confronts an Orthodox Jewish Father over Changing Patterns of Religion and WomenÆs Work, 1925

Swami Vivekananda Describes His Life as a Hindu Celebrity in America, 1893

Essays

Madonna of 115th St

American Judaism: A History

Intellectual Controversies

Documents

Charles Hodge Denounces DarwinÆs Theory of Evolution as Atheistic, 1874

Lyman Abbott Argues That Christianity and Evolutionary Theory Are Compatible, 1892

Harold FredericÆs Fictional Methodist Preacher Discovers His Ignorance of Biblical History, 1896

Washington Gladden Explains Higher Criticism, 1894

William Jennings Bryan Defends Biblical Infallibility, 1924

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Finds Feminist Messages in Genesis, 1895

George Herron Depicts Jesus as a Revolutionary Socialist, 1899

W. E. B. DuBois, Jesus Christ in Texas

Essays

Darwin and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution

American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon.

Adapting To Modernity and Complexity

Documents

Virginia Durr, Outside the Magic Circle

Amy Semple McPherson, This is That: Personal Experiences, Sermons and Writings

Clara Grillo Recalls Protestant-Catholic Tensions in Cleveland, c. 1920

Jacob Sonderling, Immigrant Rabbi, Observes American Jewish life, c. 1930

Sinclair Lewis Satirizes the Narrowness of Midwestern Baptists, 1927

Mordecai Kaplan Defends JewsÆ Life in Two Civilizations, 1948

Will Herberg Analyzes Religion and Assimilation, 1955

Donald Thorman Assesses New Roles for Catholic Laity, 1962

Essays

Jewish Food and Jewish Identity

Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism

Catholics and American Culture.

Religion and Protest Movements

Documents

Martin Luther King, Jr., Preaches on the Power of Love, 1963

James Baldwin Becomes a Boy Preacher in Harlem (c. 1936), 1963

Two Statements by Malcolm X: 1. GodÆs Judgment of White America (Dec. 1963) and 2. Letter From Mecca (April 1964)

National Conference of Black Churchmen Demands Equal Power, 1966

Christianity Today Criticizes Black AmericansÆ Intimidation of White Churches, 1969

Tom Cornell, Catholic Worker Pacifism

Tina Bell joins an Anti-Abortion Demonstration, 1988

Essays

Leadership

Urban Catholics and the Civil Rights Movement

Religion and Counterculture

Documents

Jacob Needleman Discovers the Appeal of Eastern Religions, 1970

Hal Lindsay Foresees the Millennial ôRapture,ö 1970

Eric Norman, Gods and Devils from Outer Space

Brad Steiger, The UFO Abductors

J. Stillson Judah Explains Why Hippies Join the Hare Krishnas, 1974

Starhawk Advocates Witchcraft, 1979

Carol Christ is Initiated into Goddess Worship, 1987

Essays

Religion in America Since 1945: A History 2. J. Gordon Melton, Rise and Fall of the New Age Movement

New Immigrants and Religious Multiculturalism

Documents

Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola: A Voudou Priestess in Brooklyn

Charles Munzy Attends Vietnamese Funerals in Oklahoma City, 1989

Richard Rodriguez Recalls His Hispanic-Catholic Childhood, 1981

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri Explains MuslimsÆ Mixed Feelings About American Culture, 1997

Richard Wormser Describes Pressures on Muslim Teenagers in American High Schools, 1994

Prema Kurien Explains HindusÆ Adjustments to American life, 1998

Essays

The Dynamics of Islamic Identity in North America

Latinos and the New Immigrant Church

Contrasting Immigrant Buddhists and ôWhite Buddhists.ö

Religion, Politics, and the Constitution

Documents

Billy Graham Urges a Troubled Nation to Turn Back to God, 1965

C. Stanley Lowell Defends His Fear of Catholics in 1960

Joseph M. Hopkins Deplores the Supreme CourtÆs Decision Against School Prayers, 1963

Evangelicals for Social Action Offer Guidance on Voting Biblically, 1980

Langdon Gilkey Opposes Creation Science, 1985

Christianity Today Describes Political Coalition-Building to Restore Religion in Schools, 1984

Wilfred M. McClay Warns Against the Political Contamination of Religion, 1988

Michael W. McConnell Fears for American Religious Freedom, 1990

Essays

The Supreme Court and the First Amendment

Fundamentalism and Politics.

Religion at the Turn of the Millennium: 1990-2010

Documents

Gustav Niebuhr, Men Crowd Stadiums to Fulfill Their Souls

Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal

Editors of Christianity Today, Walking in Truth

Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson discussion on ô700 Clubö argue that the ACLU and abortionists must share blame for 9/11 attack

Frank Silecchia, The Cross at Ground Zero

Jeremiah Wright, Confusing God and Government

Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union

Essays

Islam in America Post 9/11

A People Adrift

The Hindu Gods in a Split-Level World: The Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple in Suburban Washington, DC

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