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Critical issues in American religious history

Title
Critical issues in American religious history / Robert R. Mathisen.
Publication
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Mathisen, Robert R.
Description
xix, 799 pages; 23 cm
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 795-796).
Contents
Ch. 1. Interpreting religion in America -- Ch. 2. Religion in early America : how inclusive would religion be in early America? -- Ch. 3. The era of the great awakening : what was the meaning of the great awakening? -- Ch. 4. Religious America in the American Revolution : how religious was the American Revolution? -- Ch. 5. American religion in the middle period : what would be the role of religion in the early republic? -- Ch. 6. American religion in the antebellum frontier west : how did the frontier west shape American religion? -- Ch. 7. Slavery and American religion : how did slavery coexist with religion in antebellum America? -- Ch. 8. Religion and America's Civil War : how did religion impact the Civil War? -- Ch. 9. The encounter between religion and science : how did religion in America respond to the "new" voice of science? -- Ch. 10. Religion in industrializing America : how did the factory and the city influence American religion? -- Ch. 11. Religion and American empire-building : how did religion influence the emergence of America as a world power? -- Ch. 12. Fundamentalism vs. modernism : what were the factors that divided Protestantism a century ago? -- Ch. 13. American religious ferment during the depression era : how did American religion respond to the secular challenges of the depression period? -- Ch. 14. American religion from World War II to Vietnam : how would American religion deal with the pressures of the post-World War II period? -- Ch. 15. Religion and the civil rights movement : how did religion in America contribute to the rise of the civil rights movement? -- Ch. 16. Religion and the search for American stability : how did American religion restructure at the close of the millennium?
ISBN
  • 1932792392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781932792393
LCCN
2006016973
OCLC
  • ocm69423260
  • SCSB-5291354
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Columbia University Libraries