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Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People

By Jon Butler

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA)
Year
1990
ISBN
0674056000, 9780674056008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11650404 bytes)
Pages
360\374
Time added
2021-07-05 19:11:55

Description

Charts the development of religion in America and traces the many branches of faith that have grown in the country's three-hundred-year history. Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Religion in the American Past 1. The European Religious Heritage 2. The Crisis of Christian Practice in America 3. Magic and the Occult 4. The Renewal of Christian Authority 5. Slavery and the African Spiritual Holocaust 6. The Plural Origins of American Revivalism 7. A Revolutionary Millennium? 8. Toward the Antebellum Spiritual Hothouse 9. Christian Power in the American Republic Conclusion: Lincoln and the Almost Chosen People Notes Index

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