Critical issues in American religious history
By: Robert R. Mathisen.
Contributors: Mathisen, Robert R.
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 799
ISBN-13: 9781932792393
Subjects: United States -- Church history.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 795-796).
Table of contents: title: Interpreting religion in America; title: Religion in early America; title: The era of the great awakening; title: Religious America in the American Revolution; title: American religion in the middle period; title: American religion in the antebellum frontier West; title: Slavery and American religion; title: Religion and America's Civil War; title: The encounter between religion and science; title: Religion in industrializing America; title: Religion and American empire-building; title: Fundamentalism vs. modernism; title: American religious ferment during the depression era; title: American religion from World War II to Vietnam; title: Religion and the civil rights movement; title: Religion and the search for American stability.