Chapter 8: Into the new millennium -- Religion and national upheaval. New Spain -- New France -- England anew -- Chapter 2: Americanizing the ways of faith -- Religion and social order in the coloniees -- Awakening the colonies -- Religion and revolution -- Aftermath of revolution: religious liberty guaranteed -- Chapter 3: Evangelical empire: rise and fall -- The voluntary principle -- Reviving the nation -- Challenges of a religiously plural republic -- Progress and the perfect society -- Restorations and expectations -- Human rights and American religion -- Chapter 4: Sectional crisis and reconstruction -- Debate and schism over slavery -- The Civil War as a religious event -- Meditations on the nation under God -- After the war -- Chapter 5: A new religious landscape -- New arrivals -- Redefining women's work -- The West -- A new world : abroad and at home -- Chapter 6: Making progress in a progressive age? -- New thought -- Reinventing the "old-time religion" -- Pursuing justice -- Modernism/Fundamentalism -- Religion and society between world wars -- Chapter 7: Consensus and conflict in the postwar era -- The world and its wars -- Searching for Christian unity in tri-faith America -- Fighting for liberation -- Courts and culture wars -- Chapter 8: Into the new millennium -- Pluralism and politics -- Trauma and transition -- Religion and national upheaval.
Summary:
With more than a hundred illustrations and a rich array of primary documents ranging from the letters and accounts of early colonists to tweets and transcripts from the 2016 presidential election, this volume remains an essential text for readers who want to encounter firsthand the astonishing scope of religious belief and practice in American history. Students and scholars have long turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to American religious history. Published here in a single volume for the first time, the work in this fourth edition has been both updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily use the material in one semester. -- Provided by publisher.
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