Cover
Title
Contents
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Topical Guide to Chapters
Introduction: Telling Stories
A. Oral Traditions
Chapter 1. The Varieties of Native American Religious Life
Chapter 2. The African Background of New World Religions
B. The Mediterranean Matrix
Chapter 3. The Jewish Tradition
Chapter 4. From the Religion of the Hebrews to the Restoration of Israel
Chapter 5. The Eastern Orthodox Tradition
Chapter 6. The Roman Catholic Tradition
Chapter 7. Western Catholicism from the Time of Constantine
C. The Reformation Era: The Sundering of Western Christendom
Chapter 8. The Lutheran Tradition
Chapter 9. The Anglican Tradition
Chapter 10. Calvinism and the Reformed Tradition
Chapter 11. The Radical Reformation and the Anabaptist Tradition
Part II: Early America: Europeans, Colonials, and Traditional Peoples before the Revolution
Chapter 12. Colonial Anglicans
Chapter 13. New England Puritans
Chapter 14. Presbyterians and Other Reformed Churches
Chapter 15. The Society of Friends (Quakers)
Chapter 16. John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism
Chapter 17. The Great Awakening and the Baptist Tradition
Chapter 18. The Origins of Modern Religious Liberalism
Chapter 19. Anabaptists and Pietists in Pennsylvania
Chapter 20. Jews and Catholics in Early America
Illustrations: Houses of Worship: From Old World to New
Chapter 21. Christian Missions to the North American Indians
Part III: Religious Community Formation in the New Republic
Chapter 22. The Revolution and the Constitution
Chapter 23. The Second Great Awakening(s)
Chapter 24. Moral Reform, Antislavery, and Civil War
Chapter 25. The Culture of Antebellum Evangelicalism
Chapter 26. Liturgical Protestantism: Lutherans and Episcopalians in Changing Worlds
Chapter 27. Religion in the Slave Community
Chapter 28. Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and Universalism
Chapter 29. New World Space and Time: Restorationist, Millennial, and Communitarian Movements
Chapter 30. New World Revelation: Joseph Smith
Part IV: The End of the Frontier and the Rise of the CIty
Chapter 31. Victorian Evangelicals
Chapter 32. Protestant Liberalism and the Social Gospel
Chapter 33. Anglican Renaissance
Chapter 34. Reactions to Modernity: Fundamentalism, Holiness, Pentecostalism
Chapter 35. Religion in the South
Chapter 36. American Catholicism: From Ethnic Pluralism to Institutional Unity
Chapter 37. Eastern Christianity in America
Chapter 38. Ethnic Diversity and Denominationalism in American Judaism
Chapter 39. Native American New Religions
Chapter 40. Black Nationalism and New Urban Religions
Illustrations: American Judaism
Chapter 41. Health, Wealth, and Metaphysics
Part V: The Twentieth Century and Beyond: Further Encounters with Modernity and Pluralism
Chapter 42. Neo-Orthodoxy and Ecumenism: The Foundations of “Mainline” Protestantism
Chapter 43. “Mainline” Protestantism in the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 44. Conservative Protestantism: Culture and Politics
Chapter 45. Mormons and the “Mainstream”
Chapter 46. Traditions and Structures in the American Jewish Community
Chapter 47. Jewish Identity and Jewish Culture in Modern America
Chapter 48. Vatican II and the End of the Catholic “Ghetto”
Chapter 49. Roman Catholic Education, Thought, and Culture
Chapter 50. The Religions of Spanish-Speaking Peoples
Chapter 51. African American Christianity: “Eyes on the Prize”
Chapter 52. Islam in the United States
Chapter 53. Asian Traditions and American Transformations
Chapter 54. Liberalism, Radicalism, and Secularism
Chapter 55. Popular Religion in New Keys
Conclusion: Culture Wars and Great Awakenings
Further Reading
Index
