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The American religious experience : a concise history / Lynn Bridgers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780742583535
  • 0742583538
  • 1299795447
  • 9781299795440
  • 0742550583
  • 9780742550582
  • 0742550591
  • 9780742550599
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: American Religious Experience : A Concise History.DDC classification:
  • 200.8996073 200/.89/96073
LOC classification:
  • BL625.2 .P56 2006
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Calvin in New England -- Piety in Pennsylvania -- John Wesley and the Methodists -- Jonathan Edwards, Congregationalism, and the Evangelical tradition -- The Amish and the Mennonites -- The Quakers and the Shakers -- Bacon, Swedenborg, and Transcendentalism -- Catholic--anti-Catholic -- American Judaism -- Anglican to Episcopal -- Lutherans, Germans, and Scandinavians -- Evolution of the Black Church -- Baptists and baptism -- Pentecostals and the Holiness Movement -- The California missions and the Hispanic Southwest -- Raids, ghosts, and renewal -- Mormon country -- Gold mountain -- Pluralism and periphery.
Summary: The American Religious Experience is an accessible and unique rendition of American religious history. Focusing on Christianity in America, it also integrates the inter-religious, inter-denominational and multi-cultural dimensions of American religious history. The book unfolds consistent tensions between dominant streams of American Christianity and groups relegated to the periphery - groups with roots in visionary traditions, emotionalized religious practice, or ethnic and racial perspectives.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)633352

Calvin in New England -- Piety in Pennsylvania -- John Wesley and the Methodists -- Jonathan Edwards, Congregationalism, and the Evangelical tradition -- The Amish and the Mennonites -- The Quakers and the Shakers -- Bacon, Swedenborg, and Transcendentalism -- Catholic--anti-Catholic -- American Judaism -- Anglican to Episcopal -- Lutherans, Germans, and Scandinavians -- Evolution of the Black Church -- Baptists and baptism -- Pentecostals and the Holiness Movement -- The California missions and the Hispanic Southwest -- Raids, ghosts, and renewal -- Mormon country -- Gold mountain -- Pluralism and periphery.

The American Religious Experience is an accessible and unique rendition of American religious history. Focusing on Christianity in America, it also integrates the inter-religious, inter-denominational and multi-cultural dimensions of American religious history. The book unfolds consistent tensions between dominant streams of American Christianity and groups relegated to the periphery - groups with roots in visionary traditions, emotionalized religious practice, or ethnic and racial perspectives.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index.

English.