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Religious outsiders and the making of Americans /
In light of the curious compulsion to stress Protestant dominance in America's past, this book takes an unorthodox look at religious history in America. Rather than focusing on the usual mainstream Protestant churches--Episcopal, Congregationalist, Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran--Moore instea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1987.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Protestant unity and the American mission-the historiography of a desire
- Part one : Outsider religions, ethnicity, and American identity ; How to become a people : the Mormon scenario
- Managing Catholic success in a Protestant empire
- American Jews as an ordinary minority
- Part two : The progressive's despair-religions for average Americans ; Christian Science and American popular religion
- Premillennial Christian views of God's justice and American injustice
- The Protestant majority as a lost generation : a look at fundamentalism
- Black culture and Black churches : the quest for an autonomous identity
- Civil and uncivil religions : describing religious pluralism.