Religion in American History : A Reader

Introduction

Part I: The Colonial Period

1. The Spiritual Crisis of European Colonization -- Calvin Martin, "The European
Impact on the Culture of a Northeastern Algonquian Tribe: An Ecological
Interpretation"

2. Did the Puritans Start it All? -- Perry Miller, "Errand Into the Wilderness"

3. William Penn and the English Origins of American Religious Pluralism -- Edmund S.
Morgan, "The World and William Penn"

4. Document: Christianity Shapes American Slavery -- Thomas Bacon, " A Sermon to
Maryland Slaves, 1749"

5. Debate: "The Great Awakening" - Fact or Fiction? -- Harry S. Stout, "Religion,
Communications, and the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution", and Jon
Butler, "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative
Fiction"

6. The Challenge of a Woman's Religion -- Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, "The
Spiritual Pilgrimage of Sarah Osborn (1714-1796)"

Part II: The Nineteenth Century

7. Immigrants and Religion in America -- Jay P. Dolan, "The Immigrants and Their
Gods: A New Perspective in American Religious History"

8. Female Language in the American Religious Experience -- Barbara Welter, "The
Feminization of American Religion"

9. The Rise of an American Original: Mormonism -- Gordon S. Wood, "Evangelical
America and Early Mormonism"

10. What Religious Pluralism Meant -- R. Laurence Moore, "Insiders and Outsiders in
American Historical Narrative and American History"

11. Documents and Debate: On Whose Side? God, Slavery and the Civil War
Frederick Douglass, "Address on 'Evangelical Flogging'", and George D.
Armstrong, "The Christian Doctrine of Slavery: God's Work in God's Way

12. The Occult in the American Religious Tradition -- Mary Farrell Bednarowski,
"Women in Occult America"

13. Indians, Missions, and Cultural Conflict -- Raymond J. DeMallie, "The Lakota
Ghost Dance: An Ethnohistorical Account"

14. Religion and Politics -- Robert P. Swierenga, "Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in
the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures"

15. The Creation of an African-American Preaching Style -- William E. Montgomery,
"The Preachers"

16. The Rise of American Fundamentalism -- George M. Mardsen "Fundamentalism
as an American Phenomenon: A Comparison with English Evangelicalism"

Part III: The Twentieth Century

17. Religion and Sociology -- Bryan Wilson, "Secularization: The Inherited Model"

18. Commercial Culture and American Christianity -- Leigh Eric Schmidt, "The Easter
Parade: Piety, Fashion, and Display"

19. Debate: 1920-1940: Dark Ages of American Protestantism? -- Robert T. Handy,
"The American Religious Depression, 1925-35", and Joel A. Carpenter,
"Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929-1942"

20. Judaism and the American Experience -- Jonathon D. Sarna, "Seating and the
American Synagogue"

21. The Unspeakable Relationship: Religion and Bigotry in America -- Leonard
Dinnerstein, "Antisemitism in the Depression Era (1933-1939)"

22. Catholicism, Gender, and Modern Miracles -- Robert A. Orsi, "'He Keeps Me
Going': Women's Devotion to Saint Jude Thaddeus and the Dialectics of Gender in
American Catholicism, 1929-1965"

23. Martin Luther King and the Secular Power of Religious Rhetoric -- Hortense J.
Spillers, "Martin Luther King and the Style of Black Sermon"

24. Debate and Documents: Religion, Society, and Politics in Modern Times -- Joseph
A. Johnson, Jr. "Jesus the Liberator", U.S. Catholic Bishops, "A Pastoral
Message: Economic Justice for All and Jerry Falwell, "The Imperative of Moral
Involvement"