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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
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