| Description |
xxiv, 637 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A collection of important primary source documents in American religious history"--P. xxi. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Colonial settlement to the 1730s. 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 ; To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- Diary / Samuel Sewall -- 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 ; Thoughts on the works of providence / Phillis Wheatley -- From The journal of John Woolman ; On silent worship / John Woolman -- From Journal / David Brainerd -- 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. Articles of faith ; 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 -- Sorrow songs ; Credo ; 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 -- Promised land / Mary Antin -- From Our country / Josiah Strong -- Meeting with Archbishop John Ireland / Alexis Toth -- Heathen invasion of America / Mabel Potter Daggett -- Ten religions and Christianity / James Freeman Clarke -- Hinduism as a religion ; 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 ; 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 -- Ways we worship / Avery Dulles -- From Seeking the heart of wisdom / Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield -- Eagle poem / Joy Harjo -- Spring song ; Light that came to Lucille Clifton ; 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. |
| Subject |
United States -- Religion -- Sources.
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United States. |
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Religion. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Added Author |
Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie), 1967-
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| ISBN |
9780195170450 |
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0195170458 |
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