Author: Peter George ModePublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Frontier Spirit in American Christianity
Author: Peter George ModePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Frontier Spirit in American Christianity
Author: P. G. ModePublisher:
ISBN: 9780849018701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Frontier Spirit in American Christianity
Author: Peter George ModePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Democratization of American Christianity
Author: Nathan O. HatchPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300159560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic "The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism, and this book is the most important study of it ever published."—James Turner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Winner of the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic book prize, and the Albert C. Outler Prize In this provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, Nathan O. Hatch argues that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century—the Christian movement, Methodism, the Baptist movement, the black churches, and the Mormons—showing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated.
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY
Author: RONALD E. OSBORN Drierstock
Author: DrierstockPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
References on the Significance of the Frontier in American History
Author: Everett Eugene EdwardsPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Christianity on the Frontier
Author: John Alexander MackayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Religion in the Modern American West
Author: Ferenc Morton SzaszPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816522453
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
When Americans migrated west, they carried with them not only their hopes for better lives but their religious traditions as well. Yet the importance of religion in the forging of a western identity has seldom been examined. In this first historical overview of religion in the modern American West, Ferenc Szasz shows the important role that organized religion played in the shaping of the region from the late-nineteenth to late-twentieth century. He traces the major faiths over that time span, analyzes the distinctive response of western religious institutions to national events, and shows how western cities became homes to a variety of organized faiths that cast only faint shadows back east. While many historians have minimized the importance of religion for the region, Szasz maintains that it lies at the very heart of the western experience. From the 1890s to the 1920s, churches and synagogues created institutions such as schools and hospitals that shaped their local communities; during the Great Depression, the Latter-day Saints introduced their innovative social welfare system; and in later years, Pentecostal groups carried their traditions to the Pacific coast and Southern Baptists (among others) set out in earnest to evangelize the Far West. Beginning in the 1960s, the arrival of Asian faiths, the revitalization of evangelical Protestantism, the ferment of post-Vatican II Catholicism, the rediscovery of Native American spirituality, and the emergence of New Age sects combined to make western cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco among the most religiously pluralistic in the world. Examining the careers of key figures in western religion, from Rabbi William Friedman to Reverend Robert H. Schuller, Szasz balances specific and general trends to weave the story of religion into a wider social and cultural context. Religion in the Modern American West calls attention to an often overlooked facet of regional history and broadens our understanding of the American experience.
American Christianity: 1607-1820
Author: Hilrie Shelton SmithPublisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Significant documents, including letters, essays, memoirs, etc., selected to show the religious situation in America.