Religions of the United States in practice
Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 1 explores faith through action from Colonial times through the nineteenth century. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people -- praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while other texts describe more spontaneous religious actions. Because religious practices also take place in the imagination, dreams, visions, and fictional accounts are also included. Accompanying each primary document is an essay that sets the religious practice in its historical and theological context -- making this volume ideal for classroom use and accessible to any reader. The introductory essays explain the various meanings of religious practices as lived out in churches and synagogues, in parlors and fields, beside rivers, on lecture platforms, and in the streets. Religions of the United States in Practice offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States. The history of religion in America is more than the story of institutions and famous people. This anthology presents a more nuanced story composed of the everyday actions and thoughts of lay men and women. - Publisher
Print Book, English, ©2001
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2001
2 volumes ; 25 cm
9780691009988, 9780691009995, 9780691010007, 9780691010014, 0691009988, 0691009996, 0691010005, 0691010013
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vol. 1. Praying : individual and communal worship. The Amidah in colonial American synagogues / Dianne Ashton ; Seventeenth century Puritan conversion narratives / Elizabeth Reis ; The Book of Common Prayer and eighteenth-century Episcopalians / Robert Bruce Mullin ; The green corn ceremony of the Muskogees / Joel W. Martin ; The way of holiness : the Friday meeting / A. Gregory Schneider ; Reception of novices into the Order of the Sisters of St. Benedict / Patricia O'Connell Killen
Singing : songs of devotion, praise, and protest. English hymnody in early America / Michael J. McClymond ; The 1842 hymnal of Penina Moise / Dianne Ashton ; Catholic song in the antebellum United States / Robert R. Grimes, S. J. ; African American spirituals / Paul Harvey ; Ojibwe funerary hymn singing / Michael D. Mc Nally ; Temperance songs and hymns / Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford
Teaching : learning how to live correctly. The celebration of marriage in the Dutch Reformed Church / Daniel James Meeter ; The visions of Plenty-coups / Joel W. Martin ; John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida community, and male continence / Michael J. McClymond ; Is life worth living? / Paul Jerome Croce ; In his steps : a social gospel novel / Janet C. Olson
Healing : health, happiness, and the miraculous. The spiritual meanings of illness in eighteenth-century New England / Kenneth P. Minkema ; Supernaturalism and healing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Grant Underwood ; Christian physiology and diet reform / Peter Gardella ; Sickness, death, and illusion in Christian Science / Craig R. Prentiss ; The miracles of St. Anthony of Padua / Timothy J. Meagher
Imagining: the unseen world. The life and death of Mother Marie de Saint Joseph / Julia Boss ; Possession, witchcraft, and the demonic in Puritan religious culture / Kenneth P. Minkema ; Speech of Sose-Há-Wã and the code of Handsome Lake / Matthew Dennis ; A Methodist dream of Heaven and homeland / A. Gregory Schneider ; African-American vision stories / Elizabeth Reis
Persuading : witnessing, controversies, and polemics. Native American visionary experience and Christian missions / Michael D. McNally ; American anti-Catholic pornography / Peter Gardella ; Christian doctrine of slavery / Paul Harvey ; Trance lectures in antebellum America / Anne Braude ; The cremation versus burial debate / Stephen Prothero. vol. 2. Praying : individual and communal worship. Lucy Smith and Pentecostal worship in Chicago / Wallace Best ; Lutheran family devotions / Betty DeBerg The daily prayer (Duʻa) of Shiʻa Ismaʻili Muslims / Tazim R. Kassam ; Benediction of the blessed sacrament / Patricia O'Connell Killen ; The homemade Passover haggadah / Vanessa L. Ochs ; Mormon fast and testimony meetings / Jana Kathryn Riess
Singing : songs of devotion, praise, and protest. Hanukkah songs of the 1950s / Dianne Ashton ; Freedom songs and the civil rights movement / Paul Harvey ; Folk music in the Catholic mass / Mark Oppenheimer ; Buddhist chanting in Soka Gakkai International / Richard Hughes Seager ; Contemporary Christian worship music / Julie Ingersoll
Teaching : learning how to live correctly. Teaching morality in race movies / Judith Weisenfeld ; Harry Emerson Fosdick and liberal protestant teaching / Bernhard Lang ; Reconciling patriotism and Catholic devotion : Catholic children's literature in postwar America / Timothy J. Meagher ; Sex and submission in the Spirit / Peter Gardella ; An Apache girl's initiation feast / Michael D. McNally ; Taking or receiving the Buddhist precepts / Richard Hughes Seager
Healing : health, happiness, and the miraculous. Tongues and healing at the Azusa street revival / Gastn Espinosa ; Navajo healing ceremonies / Amanda Porterfield ; The power of positive thinking / Craig R. Prentiss ; Shamanism in the New Age / Gary Laderman ; Jewish mourning practices / Vanessa L. Ochs ; The Latter-day Saint word of wisdom / Jana Kathryn Riess
Imagining : the unseen world. Early Christian radio and religious nostalgia / Phyllis Goff ; Martin Luther King Jr. and the making of an American myth / Craig R. Prentiss ; Spiritual warfare in the fiction of Frank Peretti / Peter Gardella ; Charismatic renewal among Latino Catholics / Manuel A. Vásquez ; Visualizing chenrezi in American Tibetan Buddhism / Richard Hughes Seager ; The rite of baptism in Haitian voodou / Elizabeth McAlister
Persuading : witnessing, controversies, and polemics. Millions now living will never die / lain S. Maclean ; Ordaining women rabbis / Pamela S. Nadell ; Mother India's scandalous swamis / Stephen Prothero ; The wit and wisdom of The Door / Michael McClymond ; Battling spiritism and the need for Catholic orthodoxy / Manuel A. Vásquez