| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 849 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge History of Religions in America |
| Contents |
Editor's Introduction / Stephen J. Stein -- BACKGROUND ON RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS -- Native American Religion / Raymond D. Fogelson -- Roman Catholicism circa 1500 / Megan C. Armstrong -- Protestant Traditions in Western Europe on the Eve of North American Colonization / Robert D. Linder -- Religious Traditions in Great Britain on the Eve of Colonization / Peter Lake -- Some Notes on African Religious Traditions from the Fourteenth Century Onward / Jacob K. Olupona -- RELIGIONS IN THE POST-COLUMBIAN NEW WORLD -- Iroquoian Religion during the Seventeenth Century / Neal B. Keating -- Mississippian Religious Traditions / David H. Dye -- The Anasazi / Jace Weaver -- Spanish Catholicism in the Era of Exploration and Early Colonization / Pablo Garcia and Kathleen Ann Myers -- French Catholicism in the Era of Exploration and Early Colonization / Dominique Deslandres -- English, Dutch, and Swedish Protestantism in the Era of Exploration and Early Colonization / James D. Bratt -- RELIGIOUS PATTERNS IN COLONIAL AMERICA -- Spanish Catholicism in the Caribbean, New Spain, and the Northern Frontiers / Stafford Poole -- French Catholicism in New France / Luca Codignola -- Congregationalist Hegemony in New England, from the 1680s to the 1730s / Michael P. Winship -- The Middle Colonies, 1680-1730 / Thomas D. Hamm -- Religion in the Southern English Colonies, 1680s-1730s / Charles H. Lippy -- RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN BRITISH AMERICA -- Religious Ferment among Eastern Algonquians and Their Neighbors in the Eighteenth Century / Amy C. Schutt and Christopher Vecsey -- African Slave Religions, 1400-1790 / Sylvester A. Johnson -- Colonial Judaism / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Roman Catholicism in the English North American Colonies, 1634-1776 / Tricia T. Pyne -- Anglicanism and Its Discontents: Protestant Diversity and Disestablishment in British America / Daniel Vaca and Randall Balmer -- Protestant Evangelicalism in Eighteenth-Century America / Thomas S. Kidd -- Sectarian Communities: Religious Diversity in British America, 1730-1790 / Etta M. Madden -- Liberal Religious Movements and the Enlightenment / Leigh E. Schmidt -- Folk Magic and Religion in British North America / Richard Godbeer -- AMERICAN RELIGIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT -- Religion and Imperial Conflict / Jon Sensbach -- Evangelical Awakenings in the Atlantic Community / Richard P. Heitzenrater -- Religion and the American Revolution / Frank Lambert -- The Religious Landscape: From the Revolution to the New Nation / Patricia U. Bonomi -- Religion in Canada, 1759-1815 / Mark A. Noll -- From Religious Nationalism to Political Consciousness: The Bourbon Reforms in Spanish America, 1750-1790 / Ana María Díaz-Stevens and Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo -- THEMATIC ESSAYS -- Religious Thought: The Pre-Columbian Era to 1790 / E. Brooks Holifield -- Piety and Practice in North America to 1800 / Erik R. Seeman -- Sacred Music in Colonial America / Stephen A. Marini -- Religious Architecture / Peter W. Williams -- Religion and Visuality in America: Material Economies of the Sacred / David Morgan -- Religion and Race / Paul Harvey -- 851-900 -- Religions and Families in America: Historical Traditions and Present Positions / Kevin J. Christiano -- Religious History / Euan Kerr Cameron |
| Summary |
This history shows complex relationships among American religious communities as well as the growth of distinctive theological ideas and religious practices. The result of this development in North America is a rich religious culture that includes representatives of most of the world's religions. Volume 1 extends chronologically from prehistoric times until 1790, a date linked to the formation of the United States as a nation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 23, 2012) |
| Subject |
Religion.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stein, Stephen J., 1940-
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| ISBN |
1139016865 |
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9781139016865 |
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