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
Description: Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 1 explores faith through action from Colonial times through the nineteenth century. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people -- praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while other texts describe more spontaneous religious actions. Because religious practices also take place in the imagination, dreams, visions, and fictional accounts are also included. Accompanying each primary document is an essay that sets the religious practice in its historical and theological context -- making this volume ideal for classroom use and accessible to any reader. The introductory essays explain the various meanings of religious practices as lived out in churches and synagogues, in parlors and fields, beside rivers, on lecture platforms, and in the streets. Religions of the United States in Practice offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States. The history of religion in America is more than the story of institutions and famous people. This anthology presents a more nuanced story composed of the everyday actions and thoughts of lay men and women. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 Sos̀e-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. Vs̀quez.  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...