A Documentary History of Religion in America

Synopsis

Students And Scholars Have Long Turned To The Two-volume Documentary History Of Religion In America For Access To The Most Significant Primary Sources Relating To American Religious History. Published Here In A Single Volume For The First Time, The Work In This Fourth Edition Has Been Both Updated And Condensed, Allowing Instructors To More Easily Use The Material In One Semester. -- Chapter 1: The Old World And The New -- Mississippian Culture And Society -- New Spain -- New France -- England Anew -- Chapter 2: Americanizing The Ways Of Faith -- Religion And Social Order In The Coloniees -- Awakening The Colonies -- Religion And Revolution -- Aftermath Of Revolution: Religious Liberty Guaranteed -- Chapter 3: Evangelical Empire: Rise And Fall -- The Voluntary Principle -- Reviving The Nation -- Challenges Of A Religiously Plural Republic -- Progress And The Perfect Society -- Restorations And Expectations -- Human Rights And American Religion -- Chapter 4: Sectional Crisis And Reconstruction -- Debate And Schism Over Slavery -- The Civil War As A Religious Event -- Meditations On The Nation Under God -- After The War -- Chapter 5: A New Religious Landscape -- New Arrivals -- Redefining Women's Work -- The West -- A New World -- Abroad At Home -- Chapter 6: Making Progress In A Progressive Age? -- New Thought -- Reinventing The Old-time Religion -- Pursuing Justice -- Modernism/fundamentalism -- Religion And Society Between World Wars -- Chapter 7: Consensus And Conflict In The Postwar Era -- The World And Its Wars -- Searching For Christian Unity In Tri-faith America -- Fighting For Liberation -- Courts And Culture Wars -- Chapter 8: Into The New Millennium -- Pluralism And Politics -- Trauma And Transition -- Religion And National Upheaval. Edited By Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll & Heath W. Carter. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.