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A Companion to American Religious History
Benjamin E. Park (Edited by), BE Park (Author)
9781119583660, Wiley
Hardback, published 4 February 2021
400 pages
25.9 x 18.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.953 kg
A collection of original essays exploring the history of the various American religious traditions and the meaning of their many expressions The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History explores the key events, significant themes, and important movements in various religious traditions throughout the nation’s history from pre-colonization to the present day. Original essays written by leading scholars and new voices in the field discuss how religion in America has transformed over the years, explore its many expressions and meanings, and consider religion’s central role in American life. Emphasizing the integration of religion into broader cultural and historical themes, this wide-ranging volume explores the operation of religion in eras of historical change, the diversity of religious experiences, and religion’s intersections with American cultural, political, social, racial, gender, and intellectual history. Each chronologically-organized chapter focuses on a specific period or event, such as the interactions between Moravian and Indigenous communities, the origins of African-American religious institutions, Mormon settlement in Utah, social reform movements during the twentieth century, the growth of ethnic religious communities, and the rise of the Religious Right. An innovative historical genealogy of American religious traditions, the Companion: Making the lessons of American religious history relevant to a broad range of readers, The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History is the perfect book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in American history courses, and a valuable resource for graduate students and scholars wanting to keep pace with current historiographical trends and recent developments in the field.
List of Contributors ix 1 The Centrality, Diversity, and Malleability of American Religion 1 Part I Colonialisms 7 2 Nemasket/Middleborough and Religious Diversity in Colonial New England 9 3 A View from the Philadelphia Barracks: Religion in the Mid‐Atlantic 25 4 Africana Religions in Early America 44 Part II Establishment 57 5 The Loyalist Church of England Clergy and the Politics of Martyrdom in the American Revolution 59 6 Freeborn Garrettson’s Revolution: Religion and the American War for Independence 71 7 The First Wall of Separation between Church and State: Slavery and Disestablishment in Late‐Eighteenth‐Century Virginia 87 8 Abraham Remembered: An African Captivity Tale in Early America 102 9 The White River Witch‐Hunt and Indigenous Peoples’ Negotiations with Missionaries in the Era of the Early Republic 114 10 The Shakers and the Perfecting Spirit in Early America 128 Part III Expansion 137 11 David Walker and Black Prophetic Religion 139 12 “Down with the Convent!”: Anti‐Catholicism and Opposition to Nuns in Antebellum America 150 13 Ecclesiology and the Varieties of Romanticism in American Christianity, 1825–1850 165 14 Being Haudenosaunee: Seeing Indigenous Ontology Under American Settler Colonialism 179 15 Mormons and Territorial Politics in the American Civil War Era 191 16 Black Christianity after Emancipation 206 Part IV Imperialism 223 17 In Search of a “Working Class Religion”: Religion, Economic Reform, and Social Justice 225 18 The Businessman’s Gospel: Making Business Christian 239 19 The Prohibition Crusade and American Moral Politics 252 20 Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Among Early Pentecostals 265 21 Religion and US Federal Indian Policy 276 22 “For the Good of Mankind”: Atomic Exceptionalism, Religion, and United States Empire in the Postwar Pacific 287 Part V Modernity 299 23 The Hate That Hate Produced: Representing Black Religion in the Twentieth Century 301 24 The Pentagon Exorcism: 1960s Counter‐Culture and the Occult Revival 317 25 Native American Christians and the Varieties of Modern Pentecostalism 329 26 Sex, Politics, and the Rise of the New Christian Right 341 27 Immigration and Religion Among Chinese Americans, 1965 to the Present 355 28 Modern Judaism and the Golden Age of Television 371 Index 383
Benjamin E. Park
Richard J. Boles
Rachel Wheeler
Jason R. Young
Peter W. Walker
Christopher Cannon Jones
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Jon F. Sensbach
Lori J. Daggar
Jennifer H. Dorsey
Christopher Cameron
Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
Brent S. Sirota
Christian Gonzales
Brent M. Rogers
Nicole Myers Turner
Janine Giordano Drake
Nicole C. Kirk
Joseph L. Locke
Arlene M. Sanchez‐Walsh
Sarah Dees
Carleigh Beriont
Vaughn A. Booker
Joseph P. Laycock
Angela Tarango
Emily Suzanne Johnson
Melissa May Borja
Jennifer Caplan
Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]
