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[First edition]. |
| Description |
174 pages ; 18 cm. |
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Anchor books ; A294
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| Contents |
Part I. The colonial state churches. The Latin church -- English Christendom -- New England -- An example of Puritan statecraft: the Christian Indian villages -- Religion in the proprietary colonies -- The Great Awakening -- The rise of dissent -- Part II. The new nation. Statistics on church membership -- Mass evangelism -- The breakup of the New England standing order -- Restitution on the frontier -- Unitarianism: a permanent minority -- The revival churches -- The problem of church discipline -- The spread of the New England way -- |
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Part III. The Civil War and aftermath. Division in the churches -- Popular piety -- The Middle West as a Puritan power -- Sectionalism in the churches: a form of culture-religion -- The advance of the Christian Negroes -- A softened evangelism -- Mormonism -- Christian Science -- Jehovah's Witnesses -- The "Native American church" -- Positivism and pietism -- The triumph of home missions -- Part IV. American religion at floodtide -- European Metropolis and American Frontier -- The Great Plains -- The rise of secular higher education -- Pluralism on campus -- Experiments in religion in higher education -- The decline of standards of membership -- Protestant use of state power: anti-evolution laws and prohibition -- Protestant culture-religion -- |
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Part V. Mid-century encounter. John R. Mott and the flowering of foreign missions -- A crisis in Christian discipline: racial discrimination -- A crisis in evangelism: the rise of the city -- Late bloomers: Lutherans and Mennonites -- Defensive protestantism -- Catholic growth and nativist reaction -- Jewry leaves the ghetto -- "Post-Protestant" America -- The American religion: a popular heresy -- Protestant "moralism" -- The recovery of the tragic note -- The rediscovery of the dialogue. |
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Also issued online. |
| Subject |
United States -- Church history.
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United States -- Religion.
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Sects -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin), 1917-2009. From State church to pluralism. [1st ed.] Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, 1962 (OCoLC)588852050 |
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