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New territories, new perspectives : the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase /

New territories, new perspectives : the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase / edited with an introduction by Richard J. Callahan, Jr. - Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A reorienting view from the center of the country / by Richard J. Callahan, Jr. -- The religious landscape of the Louisiana Purchase / by Peter W. Williams -- Conflicting destinies : religion, sex, and violence in the Louisiana Purchase / by Amanda Porterfield -- Wide open spaces : the trail of tears, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and gaps in the national memory / by Michael J. Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. Lawless -- Vodou purchase : the Louisiana Purchase in the Caribbean world / by Paul Christopher Johnson -- Spirituality and resistance among African-Creoles / by John Stewart -- New Orleans as an American city : origins, exchanges, materialities, and religion / by Charles H. Long.

"Marking the first study to take the Louisiana Purchase as the focal point for considering development of American religious history, this collection of essays takes up the religious history of the region including perspectives from New Orleans and the Caribbean and the roots of Pentecostalism and Vodou"--Provided by publisher.


English.

9780826266262 0826266266 0826217842 9780826217844




1800-1899


Louisiana Purchase.
RELIGION--History.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Religious.
Louisiana Purchase


United States--Church history--19th century.
United States--History--1801-1809.
États-Unis--Histoire religieuse--19e siècle.
États-Unis--Histoire--1801-1809.
United States


Church history
History

BR525 / .N49 2008eb

200.973/09034