Author: Jon Butler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0195333101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jon Butler begins by describing the state of religious affairs in both the Old and New Worlds on the eve of colonization and traces the progress of religion in the colonies through the time of the American Revolution. He covers Protestants, Catholics and Jews, as well as the Native American religious experiences.
Author: Jon Butler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the role of religion in early American life as well as the influence of various groups on American religion during the Colonial era.
Author: Patricia U. Bonomi Professor of History New York University (Emerita)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003-07-10
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0199729115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. Looking at the middle and southern colonies as well as at Puritan New England, Bonomi finds an abundance of religious vitality through the colonial years among clergy and churchgoers of diverse religious background. The book also explores the tightening relationship between religion and politics and illuminates the vital role religion played in the American Revolution. A perennial backlist title first published in 1986, this updated edition includes a new preface on research in the field on African Americans, Indians, women, the Great Awakening, and Atlantic history and how these impact her interpretations.
Author: Nicholas Griffiths
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780803270817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spiritual Encounters is a comparative and theoretically informed look at the religious interactions between Native and colonial European cultures throughout the Americas. Religion was one of the most contentious, dramatic, and complex arenas of confrontation between Natives and Europeans during the colonial era. This volume fully explores the significance of colonial religious encounters. Case studies, organized by theme, showcase previously unexamined sources and offer interpretations that shed new light on Native-European religious encounters in the New World. One group of studies examines the extent to which Native peoples internalized Christianity and the cultural mechanisms that enabled them to do so. Other chapters assess in detail the often uneasy relationship between Christianity and coexisting indigenous religious practices involving sorcery and healing. A third set of essays looks at the broader political and economic forces underlying Native-colonial religious encounters. An introduction and epilogue by the editors provide valuable summaries of the broad patterns characterizing the religious interactions between the West and the Other in the colonial Americas.
Author: Claude M Nwwlin
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781022894686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 'Philosophy and Religion in Colonial America', Claude M. Newlin offers a comprehensive survey of the intellectual landscape of early America. From the Puritan divines of New England to the rationalists of the Enlightenment, Newlin explores the complex interplay between philosophy and religion in shaping American culture and society. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Claude Milton Newlin
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frank Lambert
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-07-28
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1400825539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency. Lambert recognizes that two sets of spiritual fathers defined the place of religion in early America: what Lambert calls the Planting Fathers, who brought Old World ideas and dreams of building a "City upon a Hill," and the Founding Fathers, who determined the constitutional arrangement of religion in the new republic. While the former proselytized the "one true faith," the latter emphasized religious freedom over religious purity. Lambert locates this shift in the mid-eighteenth century. In the wake of evangelical revival, immigration by new dissenters, and population expansion, there emerged a marketplace of religion characterized by sectarian competition, pluralism, and widened choice. During the American Revolution, dissenters found sympathetic lawmakers who favored separating church and state, and the free marketplace of religion gained legal status as the Founders began the daunting task of uniting thirteen disparate colonies. To avoid discord in an increasingly pluralistic and contentious society, the Founders left the religious arena free of government intervention save for the guarantee of free exercise for all. Religious people and groups were also free to seek political influence, ensuring that religion's place in America would always be a contested one, but never a state-regulated one. An engaging and highly readable account of early American history, this book shows how religious freedom came to be recognized not merely as toleration of dissent but as a natural right to be enjoyed by all Americans.
Author: Claude M. Newlin
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780837101842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patricia U. Bonomi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A reevaluation of the role of religion in the lives of 18th century Americans.