American religions : a documentary history / [compiled by] by R. Marie Griffith.

This is a collection of primary source documents in American religious history.

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Online Access:	Table of contents Table of contents Klappentext
Other Authors:	Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie), 1967-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	United States > Religion > Sources. États-Unis > Religion > Sources. Religion. United States. USA. Geschichte Quelle. Sources.

Table of Contents:

Colonial settlement to the 1730s.
The bull Sublimis Deus.
Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford.
Spirituall milk for Boston babes in either England / John Cotton.
A model of Christian charity / John Winthrop.
Sleeping at sermons is a great and a dangerous evil / Increase Mather.
To my dear children ; and, To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet.
Diary / Samuel Sewall.
The examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson.
A narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson / Mary Rowlandson.
Letter to the Indians / William Penn.
Letter to the Town of Providence on the limits of religious liberty / Roger Williams.
A persuasive to moderation to church dissenters, in prudence and conscience / William Penn.
From Wonders of the invisible world / Cotton Mather
Revival, revolution, and the Enlightenment, 1740-1800.
From Some thoughts concerning the present revival of religion in New-England / Jonathan Edwards.
From Seasonable thoughts on the state of religion in New-England / Charles Chauncy.
I Cor. 14 v. 40, Let all things be done decently and in order / Charles Woodmason.
A plain account of Christian perfection / John Wesley.
On being brought from Africa to America ; On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield ; and, Thoughts on the works of providence / Phillis Wheatley.
From The journal of John Woolman ; and, On silent worship / John Woolman.
From Journal / David Brainerd.
The petition of the Philadelphia Synagogue to Council of Censors of Pennsylvania.
A bill for establishing religious freedom / Thomas Jefferson.
Memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments / James Madison.
From An alphabetical compendium of the various sects which have appeared in the world from the beginning of the Christian era to the present day / Hannah Adams
From new republic to divided nation, 1800-65.
The articles of faith ; and, Revelation / Joseph Smith.
Harvard Divinity School address / Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Letters / Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton.
From Memoirs / Charles Grandison Finney.
Instructions to the priest-monk Theophan / Innocent Veniaminov.
From The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee / Jarena Lee.
From Narrative of the life of an American slave / Frederick Douglass.
Appeal to the Christian women of the South / Angelina Emily Grimké.
Essay on slavery and abolitionism / Catharine E. Beecher.
From The Christian doctrine of slavery / George D. Armstrong.
From Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville.
From America / Philip Schaff
Science, immigration, and consumer capitalism, 1865-1920.
Evolution / James Woodrow.
From Acres of diamonds / Russell Herman Conwell.
From A theology for the social gospel / Walter Rauschenbusch.
Pittsburgh Platform.
From In tune with the infinite / Ralph Waldo Trine.
The sorrow songs ; Credo ; and, A litany of Atlanta / W.E.B. Du Bois.
From Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / Black Elk.
The promised land / Mary Antin.
From Our country / Josiah Strong.
Meeting with Archbishop John Ireland / Alexis Toth.
The heathen invasion of America / Mabel Potter Daggett.
The ten religions and Christianity / James Freeman Clarke.
Hinduism as a religion ; and, Farewell / Swami Vivekananda.
From The varieties of religious experience / William James
From fundamentalism to civil rights, 1920-65.
Shall the fundamentalists win? / Harry Emerson Fosdick.
From The irony of American history / Reinhold Niebuhr.
From God in search of man / Abraham Joshua Heschel.
From New seeds of contemplation / Thomas Merton.
From The long loneliness / Dorothy Day.
From Dharma bums / Jack Kerouac.
What we may learn from India ; and, Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman meet with Mahatma Gandhi / Howard Thurman.
Letter from Birmingham City Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letters from abroad / Malcolm X.
From Protestant-Catholic-Jew / Will Herberg
Multiplicity, pluralism, and conflict after 1965.
From Beyond God the Father / Mary Daly.
Christian theological mediocrity / Cornel West.
Gay friendship : a thought experiment in Catholic moral theology / Stanley Hauerwas.
The ways we worship / Avery Dulles.
From Seeking the heart of wisdom / Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield.
Eagle poem / Joy Harjo.
Spring song ; The light that came to Lucille Clifton ; and, Testament / Lucille Clifton.
From Stranger at the gate / Mel White.
From The name / Franklin Graham.
Letter to Franklin Graham from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Danger and grace : Sept. 11 and America's religious moment / Richard Rodriguez.
From Habits of the heart / Robert N. Bellah.
Religious expression in public schools / U.S. Department of Education.
From Democracy and tradition / Jeffrey L. Stout.

American religions : a documentary history / [compiled by] by R. Marie Griffith.

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