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035    (OCoLC)994144474|z(OCoLC)981960532 
037    |bHarvard Univ Pr, C/O Triliteral Llc 100 Maple Ridge Dr, 
       Cumbreland, RI, USA, 02864-1769, (401)6584226|nSAN 631-
       8126 
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100 1  Mullen, Lincoln A.,|d1984-|eauthor. 
245 14 The chance of salvation :|ba history of conversion in 
       America /|cLincoln A. Mullen. 
264  1 Cambridge, Massachusetts :|bHarvard University Press,
       |c2017. 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    xii, 365 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-354) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction : Religion as choice -- Prayer : Protestant 
       converts and the sinner's prayer -- Gift : Cherokee 
       converts and the reception of missions -- Hope : African 
       American converts and the jubilee -- Kingdom : Mormon 
       converts and the primitive gospel -- Sincerity : Jewish 
       converts and resistance to missions -- Repose : Catholic 
       converts and the sect system -- Conclusion : "Maybes are 
       the essence of the situation". 
520    The Chance of Salvation offers a history of conversions in
       the United States which shows how religious identity came 
       to be a matter of choice. Shortly after the American 
       Revolution, people in the United States increasingly 
       encountered an expanded array of religious options. 
       Evangelical Protestants began an effort to convert 
       Americans, while developing new practices that emphasized 
       conversion as an immediate choice. Their missionary effort
       extended to Native American nations such as the Cherokee 
       in the Southeast, who received Christianity on their own 
       terms. Enslaved and newly freed African Americans likewise
       created a variety of Christian conversion that was 
       centered on religious hope and eschatological expectation.
       Mormons, drawing on earlier Protestant practices and 
       beliefs, enthusiastically proselytized for a new tradition
       that emphasized individual choice and free will. By 
       uncovering the way that religious identity is structured 
       as an obligatory decision, this book explains why 
       Americans change their religions so much, and why the 
       United States is both highly religious in terms of 
       religious affiliation and very secular in the sense that 
       no religion is an unquestioned default.--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Conversion|xChristianity|xHistory. 
650  0 Proselytizing|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Religious pluralism|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Christianity and other religions|zUnited States. 
650  7 Christianity.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00859599 
650  7 Conversion|xChristianity.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00877229 
650  7 Interfaith relations.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01353343 
650  7 Proselytizing.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01079381 
650  7 Religious pluralism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01094200 
651  0 United States|xChurch history. 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Church history.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411629 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
994    C0|bGPI 
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