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03488aam a2200481 i 4500 001 DD16918CF11D11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170208t20172017maua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017003962 020 $a 0674975626 020 $a 9780674975620 035 $a (OCoLC)994144474 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d HLS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a BR517 $b .M85 2017 082 00 $a 248.2/40973 $2 23 100 1 $a Mullen, Lincoln A., $d 1984- $e author. 245 14 $a The chance of salvation : $b a history of conversion in America / $c Lincoln A. Mullen. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xii, 365 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a The Chance of Salvation offers a history of conversions in the United States which shows how religious identity came to be a matter of choice. Shortly after the American Revolution, people in the United States increasingly encountered an expanded array of religious options. Evangelical Protestants began an effort to convert Americans, while developing new practices that emphasized conversion as an immediate choice. Their missionary effort extended to Native American nations such as the Cherokee in the Southeast, who received Christianity on their own terms. Enslaved and newly freed African Americans likewise created a variety of Christian conversion that was centered on religious hope and eschatological expectation. Mormons, drawing on earlier Protestant practices and beliefs, enthusiastically proselytized for a new tradition that emphasized individual choice and free will. By uncovering the way that religious identity is structured as an obligatory decision, this book explains why Americans change their religions so much, and why the United States is both highly religious in terms of religious affiliation and very secular in the sense that no religion is an unquestioned default.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : Religion as choice -- Prayer: Protestant converts and the sinner's prayer -- Gift: Cherokee converts and the reception of missions -- Hope: African American converts and the jubilee -- Kingdom: Mormon converts and the primitive gospel -- Sincerity: Jewish converts and resistance to missions -- Repose: Catholic converts and the sect system -- Conclusion: "Maybes are the essence of the situation". 650 0 $a Conversion $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Church history. 650 0 $a Proselytizing $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Religious pluralism $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Christianity and other religions $z United States. 650 7 $a Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859599 650 7 $a Conversion $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00877229 650 7 $a Interfaith relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353343 650 7 $a Proselytizing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01079381 650 7 $a Religious pluralism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01094200 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Church history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411629 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 3 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909045427.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210021051.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20190523010021.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD16918CF11D11E79D0FC10F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search