Title: Religion in the American experience: the pluralistic style.
Authors: Handy, Robert T.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Year: 1972
Subjects: United States Religion Sources.; United States Religion Sources.
Contents: Puritan bulwarks against pluralism -- Problems of southern establishments -- A Presbyterian accepts pluralism -- Methodist growth under Asbury's guidance -- A Catholic minority in a Protestant society -- The manifold transplantations of Lutheranism -- The growth of the Catholic Church in the nineteenth century -- Jews in America: a mid-nineteenth-century summary -- Judaism transformed by later immigration -- Eastern orthodoxy in a western land -- The great awakening -- The second great awakening -- Crusading for a Christian America -- The builder of modern revivalism -- The church and slavery: a southern view -- The church and slavery: a northern view -- Controversy over evolution -- Conflict over biblical criticism -- Religion among American Indians: two accounts -- Joseph Smith: a new revelation and a new church -- Alexander Campbell and the Disciples of Christ -- William Miller and the Adventists -- Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science -- New thought for a new age -- Black Protestantism as indigenous religious expression -- An evangelical interpretation of the religious situation, 1893 -- The social gospel as a unitive force -- The Lutheran search for unity -- A Jew speaks to Christians -- Social idealism and interfaith cooperation -- Cooperation among conservatives -- The spread of the ecumenical spirit -- Quests for justice and peace.