Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
House documents
Author: Biographical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delaware County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Westfield (Mass.)The Chance of Salvation
Author: Lincoln A. MullenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674975626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Chance of Salvation offers a history of conversions in the United States which shows how religious identity came to be a matter of choice. Shortly after the American Revolution, people in the United States increasingly encountered an expanded array of religious options. Evangelical Protestants began an effort to convert Americans, while developing new practices that emphasized conversion as an immediate choice. Their missionary effort extended to Native American nations such as the Cherokee in the Southeast, who received Christianity on their own terms. Enslaved and newly freed African Americans likewise created a variety of Christian conversion that was centered on religious hope and eschatological expectation. Mormons, drawing on earlier Protestant practices and beliefs, enthusiastically proselytized for a new tradition that emphasized individual choice and free will. By uncovering the way that religious identity is structured as an obligatory decision, this book explains why Americans change their religions so much, and why the United States is both highly religious in terms of religious affiliation and very secular in the sense that no religion is an unquestioned default.--
The Lancaster Bar
Author: Undergraduate Study
Author: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, College
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
pt. 1-3. Descendants of Daniel, James and Joshua Brainerd, sons of Daniel and Hannah (Spencer) Brainerd
Author: Lucy Abigail BrainardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Author: Harvard University
Author: Harvard University