Author: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the JewsPublisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report of the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews
Author: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the JewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report
Author: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the JewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Author: Jacob Rader MarcusPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814321881
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
The third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920, beginning with the Jews, slavery, and the Civil War, and concluding with the rise of Reform Judaism as well as the increasing spirit of secularization that characterized emancipated, prosperous, liberal Jewry before it was confronted by a rising tide of American anti-Semitism in the 1920s.
Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
Author: The Chance of Salvation
Author: Lincoln A. MullenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674983149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have often thought that people’s faith determines their eternal destinies. The result is that Americans switch religions more often than any other nation. The Chance of Salvation traces the history of the distinctively American idea that religion is a matter of individual choice. Lincoln Mullen shows how the willingness of Americans to change faiths, recorded in narratives that describe a wide variety of conversion experiences, created a shared assumption that religious identity is a decision. In the nineteenth century, as Americans confronted a growing array of religious options, pressures to convert altered the basis of American religion. Evangelical Protestants emphasized conversion as a personal choice, while Protestant missionaries brought Christianity to Native American nations such as the Cherokee, who adopted Christianity on their own terms. Enslaved and freed African Americans similarly created a distinctive form of Christian conversion based on ideas of divine justice and redemption. Mormons proselytized for a new tradition that stressed individual free will. American Jews largely resisted evangelism while at the same time winning converts to Judaism. Converts to Catholicism chose to opt out of the system of religious choice by turning to the authority of the Church. By the early twentieth century, religion in the United States was a system of competing options that created an obligation for more and more Americans to choose their own faith. Religion had changed from a family inheritance to a consciously adopted identity.
Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
Author: American Jewish Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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