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Communities of dissent : a history of alternative religions in America /

Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the relationships between religion and race, class, gende...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, Stephen J., 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Talking about religious outsiders
  • Early dissenters and popular religion
  • Peace movements in colonial America
  • Communitarians living on the margins
  • Apocalyptic traditions: watching and waiting for the end
  • Healers and occultists: women of spiritual means
  • Sectarians in the city
  • Twentieth-century sects and cults.