Religion in America: The Basics

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Contents
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1. Introduction
	Approaches to the Study of Religion
	Studying Religion in America
	Further Reading
2. The History and Memory of Religion in America
	Church History and the Protestant Moral Establishment
	Contested Narratives in the Era of Church History
	The Challenge of American Religious History
	Public Memory and Civil Religion
	Further Reading
	3. Religion and Colonialism in Early America, 1400s to 1770s
	Native American Religions
	African Religions
	European Reformations
	Spanish Catholicism and Colonization
	French Catholicism and Colonization
	English Protestantism and Colonization
	The Great Awakening and Evangelical Protestantism
	Further Reading
4. Religion in a New Nation, 1770s to 1860s
	Faith, Reason, and Revolution
	Denominational Life and the Second Great Awakening
	Slavery, Abolitionism, and Civil War
	Religious Experimentation and New Religious Movements
	Immigration, Expansion, and Religious Diversity
	Further Reading
5. Religion in a Modernizing America, 1860s to 1920s
	Religion and Race after the Civil War
	White Protestant Alliances and Divisions
	European Immigration and Ethnic Diversity
	Asian and Native American Religions
	Further Reading
6. Religious Diversity in a Globalizing America, 1920s to 2000s
	The Great Depression and the Interwar Years
	World War II and the Judeo-Christian Tradition
	Social Discontent and Religious Reform
	White Christian Conservatism and the Religious Right
	New Immigration and Religious Pluralism
	Further Reading
7. Religion in America after 9/11
	National Tragedy and the Limits of Religious Unity
	Hope, Race, and Rage
	Religious Pluralism as an Ideal
	More Questions than Answers
	Further Reading
Index