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Author Olmstead, Clifton E.

Title History of religion in the United States.

Publication Info. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1960.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  209.73 OLMSTEAD    Check Shelf
Description 628 pages ; 24 cm
Contents The European heritage -- The Spanish and French missions -- The rise and progress of colonial Anglicanism -- The Puritan adventure in New England -- Religious minorities in the English colonies -- The transplanting of continental Protestantism -- The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians -- The Great Awakening -- The aftermath of the revival -- Religion in the Revolutionary era -- The churches in a period of reorganization -- Western expansion and the Second Awakening -- The great missionary enterprise -- Christian contributions to education -- Conflicts in religious thought and practice -- Immigration and the changing religious scene -- The emergence of religious cults and movements -- Evangelism and social reform -- The churches and the slavery controversy -- The house divided -- Denominational consolidation and expansion -- Americanism and the immigrant faiths -- Christian idealism in national life -- Social religion in modern America -- The churches and crusading internationalism -- Religious cults since the Civil War -- Movements toward Christian unity -- The retreat to normalcy -- Religion in an era of crisis.
Subject United States -- Religion.
United States -- Church history.
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