Religions of the United States in practice
By: Colleen McDannell, editor.
Contributors: McDannell, Colleen.
Series: Princeton readings in religions
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: vol. 1. Praying-individual and communal worship. The Amidah in colonial American synagogues / Dianne Ashton. Seventeenth century Puritan conversion narratives / Elizabeth Reis ... The Green Corn Ceremony of the Muskogees / Joel W. Martin ...; title: Singing-songs of devotion, praise, and protest ... African American spirituals / Paul Harvey. Ojibwe funerary hymn singing / Michael D. McNally ...; title: Teaching-learning how to live correctly ... The visions of Plenty-coups / Joel W. Martin ... John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida community, and male continence / Michael J. McClymond ...; title: Healing-health, happiness, and the miraculous; title: Imagining-the unseen world ... Possession, witchcraft, and the demonic in Puritan religious culture / Kenneth P. Minkema. Speech of Sose-H-̀W ̃and the code of Handsome Lake / Matthew Dennis ... African-American vision stories / Elizabeth Reis; title: Persuading-witnessing, controversies, and polemics. Native American visionary experience and Christian missions / Michael D. McNally. American anti-Catholic pornography / Peter Gardella. Christian doctrine of slavery / Paul Harvey. Trance lectures in antebellum America / Anne Braude. ... vol. 2. Praying-individual and communal worship. Lucy Smith and Pentecostal worship in Chicago / Wallace Best ... The daily prayer (Duʻa) of Shiʻa Ismaʻili Muslims / Tazim R. Kassam ...; title: Singing-songs of devotion, praise, and protest ... Freedom songs and the civil rights movement / Paul Harvey. Folk music in the Catholic mass / Mark Oppenheimer. Buddhist chanting in Soka Gakkai International / Richard Hughes Seager ... Teaching morality in race movies / Judith Weisenfeld ... An Apache girl's initiation feast / Michael D. McNally. Taking or receiving the Buddhist precepts / Richard Hughes Seager; title: Healing-health, happiness, and the miraculous. Tongues and healing at the Azusa street revival / Gastn̤ Espinosa. Navajo healing ceremonies / Amanda Porterfield ...; title: Imagining-the unseen world. Early Christian radio and religious nostalgia / Phyllis Goff. Martin Luther King Jr. and the making of an American myth / Craig R. Prentiss ... Charismatic renewal among Latino Catholics / Manuel A. Vsquez. Visualizing chenrezi in American Tibetan Buddhism / Richard Hughes Seager. The rite of baptism in Haitian voodou / Elizabeth McAlister; title: Persuading-witnessing, controversies, and polemics ... Ordaining women rabbis / Pamela S. Nadell. Mother India's scandalous swamis / Stephen Prothero ...