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Religion in American Life A Short History [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (History)
  • Author:  Butler, Jon, Wacker, Grant, Balmer, Randall
  • Author:  Butler, Jon, Wacker, Grant, Balmer, Randall
  • ISBN-10:  0195158245
  • ISBN-10:  0195158245
  • ISBN-13:  9780195158243
  • ISBN-13:  9780195158243
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Pages:  568
  • Pages:  568
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2003
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2003
  • SKU:  0195158245-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0195158245-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 101441020
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Accessible and wide-ranging,Religion in American Lifeilluminates the rich spiritual heritage central to nearly every event in American history. Jon Butler begins by describing the state of religious affairs in both the Old and New Worlds on the eve of colonization. He traces the progress of religion in the colonies through the time of the American Revolution, covering all the religious groups in the colonies: Protestants, Jews, Catholics, as well as the unique religious experiences of Native Americans and African Americans
Grant Wacker continues the story with a fascinating look at the ever-shifting religious landscape of 19th-century America. He focuses on the rapid growth of evangelical Protestants-Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and others-and their competition for dominance over religions such as Catholicism and Judaism, which continued to increase with large immigrant arrivals from Ireland, Eastern Europe, and other countries.
The 20th century saw massive cultural changes. Randall Balmer discusses the effects industrialization, modernization, and secularization had on new and established religions. He examines Protestants, Hindus, Jews, New Age believers, Mormons, Buddhists, Roman Catholics, and many more, providing a clear look into the kaleidoscope of religious belief in modern-day America

The three authors' distinct voices come through in their respective sections. And as one ends his century, and the next takes the baton as if a relay race, they overlap on some events and give them different emphases....This is not a Christian history, though that faith naturally predominates. The homage to minorities strikes a good balance, and is not the forced multiculturalism seen in some textbooks....For a weekend reader who feels beind on a half millennia of American faith adventures, they can be brought up to speed in a fortnight, and certainly before the Apocalypse. -- Larry Witham,Washington Times


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