A Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1877Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll For a good two decades teachers and students of American religious history have turned to the two-volume "Documentary History of Religion in America" for the most significant primary sources from the nation's founding to the present. Both volumes in this landmark work here appear in an updated and expanded third edition. Carefully refurbished by renowned historian of American religion Mark Noll, these rich sourcebooks contain original documents -- letters, sermons, court records, personal narratives, and more -- that chronicle the drama of American religious history. This third edition updates all of the bibliographical essays, brings the second volume up to the present, and incorporates other documents that reflect recent scholarly concerns, such as the religious dimensions of the Civil War and religious developments among women and people of color. From reviews of past editions-A richly variegated selection of short documents illustrative of the history of religion in America. . . . The best sourcebook available to contemporary students and general readers. |
Contents
A New Religious Landscape | xxiii |
1 Bound for the Promised Land | xxviii |
2 Womens Work? | 27 |
3 The West | 39 |
4 A New World Abroad and at Home | 53 |
Religion and Society Engaged | 79 |
1 Love and Justice | 85 |
2 War and Peace | 117 |
2 Science and Religion | 308 |
3 Studying and Reading the Bible | 339 |
4 ModernismFundamentalism | 377 |
5 Theological Aftermath | 405 |
Consensus and Conflict | 425 |
1 The World and Its Wars | 432 |
2 Society and Its Conflicts 19505 and 19605 | 470 |
3 The Nation and Its Churches | 495 |
3 Evangelization of the World | 134 |
4 New Structures | 158 |
Worlds Within and Beyond | 183 |
1 Private Religion | 189 |
2 New Thought and New Thoughts | 217 |
3 Society Out of Joint | 240 |
4 World Out of Time | 266 |
Religion and the Life of the Mind | 289 |
1 Philosophy and Religion | 294 |
4 Revivalism and Retreat | 545 |
E Pluribus Unum? | 561 |
1 Pluralism Plus | 570 |
2 LiberationAlienation | 594 |
3 LitigationDivision | 624 |
4 Religion and the Public Order | 665 |
5 Into the New Millennium | 695 |
Index | 733 |
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A Documentary History of Religion in America since 1877 Edwin S. Gaustad,Mark A. Noll No preview available - 2003 |