Introducing American Religion
– the eBook
by Charles H. Lippy
Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
Chapter 1: Religious Diversity in the Age of Colonial Conquest
- Native American understanding of religion
- Key elements in African tribal religions
- Diversity within European Christianity
- European Christian misunderstanding of tribal religious expression
- Judaism and Islam in the age of colonial conquest
Chapter 2: European Settlers Increase Religious Diversity
- The Spanish and French bring Catholicism to North America
- Varieties of Protestantism in the first English colonies
- The religious mosaic of early New England
Chapter 3: The Expanding Religious Culture of English Colonial America
- The importance of the middle colonies
- William Penn's experiment in religious diversity
- Maryland and the Carolinas create more diversity
- The impact of the Evangelical surge and the Enlightenment
Chapter 4: Religion in an Age of Revolution
- Religious challenges in the late colonial period
- The impact of the American Revolution on religious life
- Legal moves in the era of independence assure religious diversity
- The denominations and the explosion of diversity
Chapter 5:
- Early English colonists, Native Americans, and African slaves
- Evangelical missionary efforts among African Americans and Native Americans
- Revolution and revitalization
Chapter 6: Evangelical America
- Evangelicalism's harvest time: the frontier camp meeting
- Revivalism cements the evangelical style on American Protestantism
- Evangelical Protestants and the erosion of Calvinism
- The evangelical vision of a moral society
Chapter 7: Religious Experimentation Brings More Diversity
- Recapturing original Christianity
- Bringing heaven to earth
- The adventist impulse
Chapter 8: Catholic and Jewish Growth Stretch Diversity
- Catholics in the new American nation
- Immigration spurs rapid Catholic expansion
- Catholic doubts about America amid nativist backlash
- Jews find a home in America
- Ethnicity's impact on American religion
Chapter 9: The Impact of Civil War and Regionalism
- Debates about slavery spur regional religious consciousness
- The Civil War as a moral and religious event
- Region's impact in larger perspective
- Other facets of religion and region
Chapter 10: Immigrants, Industries, and Cities
- The United States becomes an urban, industrial nation
- Immigrants and in-migrants reshape traditions
- Diverse Protestant responses to an urbanizing America
- Ethnicity, gender, and reform in urban America
Chapter 11: Other Dimensions of Urbanizing America
- American religions encounter world religions
- Gender issues add new dimensions to American religion
- New currents among Native American tribal religions
- Bible conferences and summer retreats offer relief from urban life
Chapter 12: Modernity Brings More Change
- New intellectual approaches challenge traditional thought
- Fundamentalism's impact on American Protestantism
- Other intellectual currents bring more variety in belief
- Pentecostal stirrings enrich religious life
Chapter 13: Reaction and Retreat
- Prohibition as social reform and as a reaction to diversity
- Growing intolerance reflects fears of a pluralistic culture
- The vision of a reborn Klan
- Communications media move in new directions
Chapter 14: Quests for Unity amid Diversity
- Depression and another world war complicate religious life
- A righteous nation confronts “godless” communism
- Other efforts to promote common identity
- Cracks start to erode the veneer of unity
Chapter 15: The “New Pluralism” of the Later Twentieth Century
- New religious movements spark interest and fear
- The new immigration and growing religious pluralism
- The courts wrestle with pluralism
- Pluralism's impact on spirituality and worship
Chapter 16: The Many Faces of Pluralism in Postmodern America
- Postmodernism brings other dimensions of pluralism
- A resurgent evangelicalism brings more diversity
- Public issues reveal moral differences
- The many, changing faces of religious pluralism
- Online Archives, Libraries, and Electronic Resources
- Online Audio Resources
- Glossary
- Resources