Critical issues in American religious history /
Mathisen, Robert R.
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press,
[2006]
Americans as a religious people experience both tension and indecision as they wrestle with a variety of critical issues every day. American society continually struggles with its religious past. The primary and secondary materials included in this volume track religious America's efforts to articulate its identity and destiny and implement its religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society. --From publisher's description.
Includes bibliographical references.
Americans as a religious people experience both tension and indecision as they wrestle with a variety of critical issues every day. American society continually struggles with its religious past. The primary and secondary materials included in this volume track religious America's efforts to articulate its identity and destiny and implement its religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society. --From publisher's description.
1. Interpreting religion in America -- Recovery of American religious history / Henry F. May -- Telling stories / Peter W. Williams -- History texts and why is there so little religion in the textbooks / Warren A. Nord -- 2. Religion in early America -- A French view of native Americans (1611) -- English America's first mass (1634) -- Anti-Catholicism (1641) -- Pennsylvania and the Quakers (1669) -- Trial of Margaret Brewster (1677) -- Slave conversion on the Carolina Frontier (1709) -- ESSAYS -- Black women and religion in the Colonial Period / Lillian Ashcraft Webb -- Exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church: Anti-popery and Colonial New England / Francis D. Cogliano -- Saints and sisters: Congregational and Quaker Women in the early Colonial Period / Mary Maples Dunn -- 3. The era of the Great Awakening -- DOCUMENTS -- Essay for reviving religion (1733) -- From the Journal of the Rev. Ebenezer Parkman (1742) -- Thoughts on the Revival of Religion (1742) -- Seasonal thoughts on the State of Religion (1743) -- "What a vile creature I am" (1744) -- Testimony of Harvard College against George Whitefield (1744) -- Millennium (1758) -- The impact of the great awakening (1769) -- ESSAYS -- Great awakening: revelation and reason / Cedric Cowing -- The Great Awakening as subversion and conspiracy / David S. Lovejoy -- Women and Revivalism: the Puritan and Wesleyan traditions / Martha T. Blauvelt and Rosemary Skinner Keller -- 4. Religious America in the American Revolution -- DOCUMENTS -- Discourse concerning unlimited submission (1750) -- Southern Anglican Loyalist (1770) -- A calm address to our American Colonies (1775) -- Election Sermon (1776) -- Isaac Backus's call for a Bill of Rights (1779,1783) -- ESSAYS -- Role of religion in the Revolution / William G. McLoughlin -- Visions of a Republican Millennium: an ideology of Civil Religion in the New Nation / Nathan O. Hatch -- American Revolution and the Religious History of the United States / Mark Noll -- 5. American religion in the middle period -- DOCUMENTS -- Rise of African American Churches (1792, 1816) -- Forming the American Bible Society (1816) -- Lyman Beecher and disestablishment (1818) -- The Church must take right ground (1835) -- Millerites and Millennialism (1836) -- Measures to promote revivals (1835) -- The anxious bench (1844) -- Human aliment and the wines of Scripture (1855) -- ESSAYS -- Promise of the Millennium / Steven Mintz -- Charles G. Finney / Robert R. Mathisen -- Adventism and the American experience / Jonathan M. Butler -- 6. American religion in the antebellum frontier West -- DOCUMENTS -- Frontier revivalism (1808) -- Methodist circuit preacher (1834) -- Narrative of the massacre of the wife and children of Thomas Baldwin (1836) -- First white women over the Rockies (1837) -- The need for Western Colleges (1843) -- The Mormon exodus announced (October 8,1845) -- Justification by Scripture (1846) -- Robert Baird on the principle of voluntarism (1856) -- ESSAYS -- Heritage of the popular denominations / R. Scott Miyakawa -- Religion and Spirituality / Ferenc M. Szasz and Margaret Connell Szasz -- Temples in the Forest / Robert F. Berkhofer.
7. Slavery and American religion -- DOCUMENTS -- View of the exertions lately made for the purpose of Colonizing the free people of colour (1817) -- A Catholic defense of Slavery (1840) -- Slavery and Methodist schism (1843) -- Slave religion (1849) -- Letters on Slavery (1852) -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July (1852) -- Slavery and Southern Presbyterian Secession (1861) -- Slave songs and Spirituals (1867) -- ESSAYS -- Religious life in the Slave community / Albert J. Raboteau -- Antislavery and the Evangelical movement / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Slavery and theology: the emergence of Black Christian consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America / Timothy L. Smith -- 8. Religion and America's Civil War -- DOCUMENTS -- Abraham Lincoln's letter to Joshua F. Speed (1855) -- An address to Christians throughout the world (1863) -- President Davis seeks God's aid and mercy (1864) -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural address (1865) -- Address at the raising of the Union Flag over Fort Sumter (1865) -- Horace Bushnell's reflections on the Civil War (1865) -- A confederate Chaplain recounts his experience of revivals 1863-1864 -- (Jan. 1867) -- ESSAYS -- Religion, the origins of Southern nationalism, and the coming of the Civil War / Mitchell Snay -- Yankee Protestants and the Civil War: From confusion to Crusade / James H. Moorhead -- Christian soldiers: the meaning of revivalism in the Confederate Army / Drew Gilpin Faust -- 9. The encounter between religion and science -- DOCUMENTS -- What is Darwinism (1874) -- Evolution (1884) -- Evolution and religion (1886) -- Cardinal Gibbons on Religion and Science (1889) -- Religion of Evolution (1891) -- Catholic reconciles evolution and Church Dogma (1896) -- Final effort of Theology (1896) -- ESSAYS -- Ape in the tree of Knowledge / Paul A. Carter -- Intellectual crisis of belief / James Turner -- Between Americanism and Modernism: John Zahm and Theistic evolution / R. Scott Appleby -- 10. Religion in industrializing America -- DOCUMENTS -- Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union (1883) -- Cardinal Gibbons defends the Knights of Labor (1887) -- Social Gospel as a unitive force (1890) -- Pope Leo XIII's "rerum Novarum" (1891) -- In His steps (1896) -- Race problem in a Christian State (1906) -- Christianity and the Social crisis (1907) -- ESSAYS -- American Protestantism at the crossroads / Susan Curtis -- Catholic revivalism: conversion and reform / Jay P. Dolan -- "Future golden day of the race" : Millennialis and Black Americans in the Nadir, 1877-1901 / Timothy E. Fulop -- 11. Religion and American empire-building -- DOCUMENTS -- Reaching Alaska's Natives (1878) -- A missionary declares China's Salvation (1883) -- Our country (1885) -- A Catholic and Protestant debate over the Philippines (1899, 1903) -- Boxer opposition to Christian Missionaries and converts (1900) -- March of the Flag (1903) -- ESSAYS -- Christian conquest of the World, 1890-1920 / Robert T. Handy -- God's mission and America's / William R. Hutchison -- Women missionaries and cultural conquest / Jane Hunter -- 12. Fundamentalism vs. modernism -- DOCUMENTS -- Bible and modern Criticism (1910-1915) -- Fundamentalism is very much alive (1921) -- Shall the fundamentalism win (1922) -- Christianity and Liberalism (1923) -- Fundamentalism and Modernism: two religions (1924) -- ESSAYS -- Tremors of controversy / George M. Marsden -- Introduction to controversy in the twenties Fundamentalism Modernism, and Evolution / Willard B. Gatewood -- Fundamentalist- modernist controversy 1918-1930 / Ferenc M. Szasz.
13. American religious ferment during the depression era -- DOCUMENTS -- Promotion of true religious unity (1928) -- Humanist Manifesto I (1933) -- I am a Rabbi's wife (1934) -- Niebuhr on the social struggle in America (1934) -- Coughlin attacks Roosevelt as Red (1936) -- Must we go to war (1937) -- ESSAYS -- No revival: in this depression it is different / Martin E. Marty -- Transitions in Judaism : the Jewish American Woman through the 1930's / Norma Fain Pratt -- A thriving popular movement / Joel A. Carpenter -- 14. American religion from World War II to Vietnam -- DOCUMENTS -- Uneasy Conscience of modern Fundamentalism (1947) -- Church and state in tension : school district of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp (1963) -- The problem of State Religion (1951) -- Shall women be ordained (1955) -- A Roman Catholic for President (1960) -- Excerpts from "The council opens" (1963) -- ESSAYS -- Frontiers of American Catholicism / Martin E. Marty -- Winning ordination for women in mainstream Protestant churches / Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Rise of the New Evangelicalism : Shock and adjustment / Mark Silk -- 15. Religion and the civil rights movement -- DOCUMENTS -- Ministry and integration: the greatest threat to segregation (1959) -- The mind of the Ku Klux Klan (1964) -- Keep your eyes on the prize (1964) -- Black Muslims as a Protest Movement (1964) -- White Protestantism and the Negro (1965) -- Martin Luther King explains nonviolent resistance (1967) -- Black Messiah (1968) -- ESSAYS -- Origins of activism, 1950-1963 / James F. Findlay -- Civil rights movement and the soul of America / Adam Fairclough -- High Priest of the anti-civil rights movement: the calling of Sam Bowers / Charles Marsh -- 16. Religion and the search for American stability -- DOCUMENTS -- Native American church, Peyote and People v. Woody (1964) -- Zen Buddhism in America (1976) -- Homosexuality and the Church (1978) --- Black Churches: a new agenda (1979) -- A Mormon response to the equal rights amendment (1979) -- Hispanics and the Catholic Church (1980) -- Feminism and traditional Judaism (1981) -- ESSAYS -- Traumatic years: American Religion and culture in the '60's and '70's / Sydney E. Ahlstrom -- Toward religious realignment / Robert Wuthnow -- Confused and helpless / Thomas C. Reeves -- Claiming Muslim space in America's pluralism / Yvonne Tazbeck Haddad -- Appendix: Additional resources on American Religious History.