This collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. INDICE: Note: Each chapter concludes with Further Reading. 1. APPROACHES TO AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY. Essays. 1. Philip Schaff, Alexis de Tocqueville,Democracy in America Vol. 1, "Indirect Influence of Religious Opinions upon Political Society." 2. Ann Braude, Women's History is American Religious History. 3. Roger Finke and Rodney Stark, Church Membership Has Increased ThroughoutAmerican History, Especially in the Most Demanding Groups. 2. EUROPEAN-INDIANENCOUNTERS. Documents. 1. Bernal Diaz del Castillo Describes Cortes' Replacement of Human Sacrifice with the Cult of the Virgin Mary, c. 1519. 2. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish Castaway, Becomes an Indian healer, 1542. 3. Joseph Jouvency, a Jesuit Priest, Discusses Death and Hell with Canadian Indians, 1610. 4. Roger Williams Explains Rhode Island Indians' Language and Religion, 1643. 5. Mary Jemison Describes the Five Feasts by Which the Seneca Marked theChanging Seasons, c.1750. 6. Tecaughretanego Explains Why the Great Spirit Sometimes Permits Men to Go Hungry Before Feeding Them, 1758. 7. John HeckwelderDescribes the Delaware Indians' View of Bear Spirits, c.1750. 8. John Muir Witnesses the Conversion of Thlinkit Indians to Christianity, c.1876. Essays. 1.Daniel K. Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Civilization. 2. Joel W. Martin, Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees Struggle for a New World. 3. RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE BRITISH COLONIES: 1607-1775. Documents. 1. John Winthrop Outlines His Plan for a Godly Settlement, 1630. 2. William Bradford Sees God's Mercy and Judgment in New England's Changing Fortunes, 1654. 3. Cotton Mather Advises John Richards on DetectingWitches, 1692. 4. Jonathan Edwards on the beginnings of revival. 5. Nathan Cole on hearing Whitfield. 6. Benjamin Franklin Explains His Religious Views in a Letter, 1756. 7. Charles Woodmason, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution, circa. 1770. Essays. 1. Perry Miller, The Puritans' Errand intothe Wilderness. 2. Annette Laing, Heathens and Infidels: African Christianization. 3. Christine Heryman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. 4 RELIGION AND REVOLUTION: 1775-1795. Documents. 1. Abraham Keteltas, sermon from 1777, "God Arising and Pleading His People's Cause." 2. Jonathan Boucher'sLoyalist Sermon Denounces the Revolution, 1775. 3. Anthony Benezet, Quaker, Denounces War, 1776. 4. Isaac Backus, History of New England Baptists. 5. Lucy Wight Meets Shaker Leader Mother Ann Lee, (c. 1780), 1826. 6. Thomas JeffersonEstablishes Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1786. 7. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, Federalist 51. Essays. 1. George Marsden, Religion andAmerican. 2. Garry Wills, Deists. 3. Stephen Marini, How the Revolution Stimulated New Religious Movements. 5. RELIGION IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC: 1790-1850. Documents. 1. Peter Cartwright, Autobiography, 1856. 2. Charles Grandison Finney Stirs Up Religious Emotions at Revival Meetings, 1835. 3. Joseph Smith Explains How an Angel Guided Him to Found the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), 1842. 4.Ralph Waldo Emerson Describes the "Over-Soul," 1841. 5. Anonymous Ex-Slave Sees the Ghost of Her Dead Master c.1850. 6. Henry Bibb, a Slave, Uses Conjuringto Prevent Harm and Attract Women, 1849. 7. Samuel Ringgold Ward Escapes fromSlavery and Becomes a Minister (1820), 1855. Essays. 1. Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith. 2. Albert J. Raboteau, The Slaves' Own Religion. 6. IMMIGRANTSAND REFORMERS. Documents. 1. Alexis de Tocqueville Sees Catholicism and Democracy as Compatible, 1835. 2. Maria Monk Shocks Protestant Readers with Allegations of Sex and Violence in a Nunnuery, 1836. 3. John Francis Maguire Recountsthe Suffering of Irish Catholic Immigrants (1846), 1887. 4. Benajmin Roth Warns His Emigrant Son Solomon About Moral and Religious Dangers in America, 1854. 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe Advocates Enlightened Observance of the Sabbath, 1853. 6. Angelina Grimke Uses the Bible to Justify Abolishing Slavery, 1838. 7. Frederick Douglass Compares Southern Slaveowners' Religion with That of Jesus,1845. 8. Thornton Stringfellow Argues That the Bible Is Pro-slavery, 1860. Essays. 1. Charles Morris, American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church. 2. Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Slaveholders and the Bible. 7. THE CIVIL WAR. Documents. 1. John Candler Gregg, union chaplain with the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 2. William W. Bennett, Narrative of the Great Revival in the Southern Armies. 3. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Witnesses the Religious Life of Black Soldiers, 1864. 4. George Barton Remembers a Pious Irish-American Nun Nursing the Wounded at Shiloh, 1863.5. Arthur Howard Noll, Doctor Quintard, Chaplain CSA. 6. Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address" and "Second Inaugural Address." 7. Isaac Lane, From Slave toPreacher Among the Freedmen. Essays. 1. James Moorehead, Civil War as Armageddon. 2. Daniel W. Stowell, Stonewall Jackson and the Providence of God." 3. Harry Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American CivilWar. 8. TEMPERANCE AND THE NEW IMMIGRATION. Documents. 1. Charles Sheldon, editorials in The Jesus Newspaper: The Christian Experiment of 1900 and its Lessons for Today. 2. Carry Nation, The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation. 3. Booth Tucker Describes the Salvation Army's Social and Gospel Work in Slums and Saloons, 1900. 4. Rosa, an Immigrant, Contrasts Her Italian Catholicism with the American Version, c. 1890. 5. Abraham Cahan Shows How American Business Life and Religious Pluralism Shattered a Russian Jewish Immigrant's Traditional Faith, 1916. 6. Anzia Yezierska Confronts an Orthodox Jewish Father over Changing Patterns of Religion and Women's Work, 1925. 7. Swami Vivekana
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