Cover
About the pagination of this eBook
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chronology
Volume 1: Colonial Era to the Civil War
Thematic Essays
African Americans and Religion, Colonial Era to the Civil War
The Bible in America, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Domestic Life, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Religion and Economics, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Religion and Education, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Ethnic American Religious Beliefs and Practices, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Religion and Literature, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Native Americans and Religion, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Religion and Politics, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Women and Religion, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Entries
Adams, Samuel (1722–1803)
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Allen, Ethan (1738–1789)
Allen, Richard (1760–1831)
American Bible Society
The American Revolution
America’s Christian Origins
Anabaptists
Asbury, Francis (1745–1816)
Backus, Isaac (1724–1806)
Baptists, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Beecher, Lyman (1775–1863)
The Benevolent Empire
Boardman, William Edwin (1810–1886)
Boudinot, Elias (1740–1821)
Bradstreet, Anne (1612–1672)
Brainerd, David (1718–1747)
Calvert, Cecil (1605–1675)
Campbell, Alexander (1788–1866)
Carroll, Charles (1737–1832)
Carroll, John (1735–1815)
Cartwright, Peter (1785–1872)
Channing, William Ellery (1780–1842)
Chauncy, Charles (1705–1787)
The Civil War
Colonial American Religion
Colwell, Stephen (1800–1871)
Congregationalism
Cotton, John (1584–1652)
Davies, Samuel (1723–1761)
Deism
Disciples of Christ
Duffield, George (1794–1868)
Dutch Reformed
Dwight, Timothy (1752–1817)
Edwards, Jonathan (1703–1758)
Election of 1800
Eliot, John (1604–1690)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–1882)
Enlightenment’s Influence in America
Faith of the Founders
Finney, Charles (1792–1875)
The First Great Awakening
Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)
Frelinghuysen, Theodorus (1692–1747)
The German Reformed
Grimké, Angelina Emily (1805–1879)
Gurney, Joseph John (1788–1847)
Halfway Covenant
Handsome Lake (1735–1815)
Hicks, Elias (1748–1830)
Hodge, Charles (1797–1878)
Hopkins, Samuel (1721–1803)
Hutchinson, Anne (1591–1643)
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall” (1824–1863)
Jay, John (1745–1829)
Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)
Jesuits
Judson, Adoniram (1788–1850)
Langdon, Samuel (1723–1797)
Lay, Benjamin (1681–1759)
Lee, Ann (1736–1784)
Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)
Lovejoy, Elijah (1802–1837)
Makemie, Francis (ca. 1658–1708)
Mather, Cotton (1663–1728)
Mather, Increase (1639–1723)
Mayhew, Jonathan (1720–1766)
Mayhew, Thomas, Jr. (ca. 1620–1657)
McGready, James (1763–1817)
Missions to the Native Americans
Moravians
Mott, Lucretia (1793–1880)
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior (1711–1787)
Neolin (c. 1720s–c. 1770s?)
Nettleton, Asahel (1783–1844)
Nevin, John Williamson (1803–1886)
Occom, Samson (1723–1792)
Palmer, Phoebe (1807–1874)
Penn, William (1644–1718)
Predestination
Presbyterians, Colonial Era to the Civil War
Puritans
Quakers
Salem Witch Trials
Schlatter, Michael (1716–1790)
The Second Great Awakening
Seton, Elizabeth Ann (1774–1821)
Slavery
Smith, Henry Boynton (1815–1877)
Smith, Joseph (1805–1844)
Smohalla (ca. 1815–1895)
Sorin, Edward (1814–1893)
Stearns, Shubal (1706–1771)
Stiles, Ezra (1727–1795)
Stone, Barton (1772–1844)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811–1896)
Tappan, Arthur (1786–1865)
Taylor, Edward (1642–1729)
Taylor, Nathaniel William (1786–1858)
Tegahkouita, Catherine (1656–1680)
Temperance Movement
Tennent, Gilbert (1703–1764)
Tenskwatawa (ca. 1775–1836)
Thornwell, James Henley (1812–1862)
Transcendentalism
Trusteeism
Unitarianism
Voluntary Principle
Walther, Carl F. W. (1811–1887)
The War of 1812
Weld, Theodore (1803–1895)
Wheatley, Phillis (1753–1784)
Wheelock, Eleazar (1711–1779)
Whitefield, George (1714–1770)
Williams, Roger (1603–1683)
Winthrop, John (1588–1649)
Witherspoon, John (1723–1794)
Woolman, John (1720–1772)
Worcester, Samuel (1798–1859)
Wovoka (ca. 1856–1932)
Young, Brigham (1801–1877)
Primary Source Documents
Volume 2: Reconstruction to World War II
Thematic Essays
African Americans and Religion, Reconstruction to World War II
The Bible in America, Reconstruction to World War II
Catholicism, Reconstruction to World War II
Domestic Life, Reconstruction to World War II
Religion and Economics, Reconstruction to World War II
Religion and Education, Reconstruction to World War II
Judaism, Reconstruction to World War II
Religion and Politics, Reconstruction to World War II
Religion and Science, Reconstruction to World War II
Women and Religion, Reconstruction to World War II
Entries
Abbott, Lyman (1835–1922)
Americanist Controversy in the Catholic Church
Anti-Semitism
Baptists, Reconstruction to World War II
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813–1887)
Black Elk (ca. 1866–1950)
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831–1891)
Booth, Evangeline (1865–1950)
Briggs, Charles A. (1841–1913)
Brooks, Phillips (1835–1893)
Brownson, Orestes (1803–1876)
Bryan, William Jennings (1860–1925)
Bushnell, Horace (1802–1876)
Calvinism
Carus, Paul (1852–1919)
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Christian Science
Church of God in Christ
Church of the Nazarene
Clarke, William Newton (1841–1912)
Coffin, Henry Sloane (1877–1954)
Conwell, Russell (1843–1925)
Coughlin, Father Charles (1891–1979)
Crummell, Alexander (1819–1898)
Dabney, Robert (1820–1898)
Day, Dorothy (1897–1980)
Dispensationalism
Drexel, Katharine (1858–1955)
Dulles, John Foster (1888–1959)
Eddy, Mary Baker (1821–1910)
Election of 1928
Episcopalians, Reconstruction to World War II
Father Divine (George Baker) (1880–1965)
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
Foreign Missions, 1865–1945
Fosdick, Harry Emerson (1878–1969)
The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
Garfield, James Abram (1831–1881)
Garnet, Henry Highland (1815–1882)
Ghost Dance Movement
Gibbons, James Cardinal (1834–1921)
Gladden, Washington (1836–1918)
Gordon, A. J. (1836–1895)
Gospel Music
Grimké, Francis James (1850–1937)
Hecker, Isaac (1819–1888)
Holiness Movement
Ingersoll, Robert (1833–1899)
Ireland, John (1838–1918)
Keane, John Joseph (1839–1918)
Lutherans
Macartney, Clarence (1879–1957)
Machen, J. Gresham (1881–1937)
Mason, Charles (1864–1961)
Mathews, Shailer (1863–1941)
McCosh, James (1811–1894)
McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890–1944)
McQuaid, Bernard John (1823–1909)
Mears, Henrietta (1890–1963)
The Men and Religion Forward Movement
Methodists, Reconstruction to World War II
Millenarianism
Moody, Dwight (1837–1899)
Mormons
Mott, John R. (1865–1955)
Muhammad, Elijah (1897–1975)
Neo-Orthodoxy
New Thought
Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892–1971)
Noyes, John Humphrey (1811–1886)
Oakerhater, David Pendleton (ca. 1847–1931)
Okumura, Takie (1865–1951)
Payne, Daniel Alexander (1811–1893)
Pentecostalism
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908–1972)
Presbyterians, Reconstruction to World War II
Princeton Theological Seminary
Prohibition Movement
Ransom, Reverdy (1861–1959)
Rauschenbusch, Walter (1861–1918)
Revivalism
Riley, William Bell (1861–1947)
Russell, Charles Taze (1852–1916)
Ryan, John A. (1869–1945)
Sabbath Observance
The Salvation Army
Schaff, Philip (1819–1893)
Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
Scudder, Vida (1861–1954)
Settlement House Movement
Seventh-Day Adventists
Sheldon, Charles (1857–1946)
Slocum, John (1838–1897)
Smith, Hannah Whitall (1832–1911)
The Social Gospel
The Spanish-American War
Spellman, Francis Cardinal (1889–1967)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902)
Strong, Josiah (1847–1916)
Sunday, Billy (1862–1935)
Talmage, Thomas DeWitt (1832–1902)
Theological Liberalism
Theosophical Society
Tillich, Paul (1886–1965)
Turner, Henry McNeal (1834–1915)
Universalism
Waashat Religion
Wanamaker, John (1839–1922)
Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921)
White, Ellen (1827–1915)
Willard, Frances (1839–1898)
Wilson, Woodrow (1856–1924)
Wise, Isaac Mayer (1819–1900)
Wise, Stephen Samuel (1874–1949)
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
World’s Parliament of Religions
World War I
World War II
YMCA
YWCA
Primary Source Documents
Volume 3: World War II to the Present
Thematic Essays
African Americans and Religion, World War II to the Present
The Bible in America, World War II to the Present
Catholicism, World War II to the Present
Domestic Life, World War II to the Present
Religion and Economics, World War II to the Present
Religion and Education, World War II to the Present
Judaism, World War II to the Present
Religion and Politics, World War II to the Present
Religion and Science, World War II to the Present
Women and Religion, World War II to the Present
Entries
Abortion
Ali, Muhammad (1942–2016)
Al-Nonowy, Muhammad Bin Yahya (1966–)
American Civil Liberties Union
American Indian Religious Freedom Act
American Theravada Buddhists
Asian American Christianity
Assemblies of God
Athenagoras (Spyrou) (1886–1972)
Baptists, World War II to the Present
Bennett, John (1902–1995)
Bible Belt
Biblical Inerrancy
Black Theology
Blake, Eugene Carson (1906–1985)
Boteach, Shmuel (1966–)
Buddhism
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)
Carter, Jimmy (1924–)
Catholic Relief Services
The Charismatic Movement
Christian Reformed Church
Christianity and the Media since 1945
Church of the Brethren
Civil Religion
The Civil Rights Movement
Colson, Charles (1931–2012)
Cone, James (1936–2018)
Constantinides, Archbishop Michael (1892–1958)
Contemporary Christian Music
Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ)
Das, Bhagavan (1945–)
Death of God Theology
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Ecumenical Movement
Election of 1960
End-Times Interpretations
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Euthanasia
Evangelicalism
Evans, Tony (1949–)
Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
Falwell, Jerry (1933–2007)
Feminist Theology
Graham, Billy (1918–2018)
Henry, Carl F. H. (1913–2003)
Hinduism
Hispanic Christianity
Homosexuality
Hua, Hsuan (1918–1995)
Hubbard, L. Ron (1911–1986)
Iakovos, Archbishop (1911–2005)
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Islam
Jakes, Thomas Dexter (1957–)
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jesus People
King, Martin Luther Jr. (1929–1968)
Kushner, Harold (1935–)
Levy, Naomi (1962–)
Liberation Theology
Lindsell, Harold (1913–1998)
Lucado, Max (1955–)
Mainline Denominations
Marty, Martin (1928–)
Megachurches
Mennonites
Merton, Thomas (1915–1968)
Methodists, World War II to the Present
Mohammed, Warith Deen (1933–2008)
The Moral Majority
Murray, John Courtney (1904–1967)
Nation of Islam
National Association of Evangelicals
National Council of Churches
Native American Christianity
Neuhaus, Richard John (1936–2009)
New Theology
Nouwen, Henri (1932–1996)
O’Connor, Flannery (1925–1964)
O’Hair, Madalyn Murray (1919–1995)
Osteen, Joel (1963–)
Peale, Norman Vincent (1898–1993)
Percy, Walker (1916–1990)
Perkins, John M. (1930–)
Piper, John (1946–)
Presbyterians, World War II to the Present
Process Theology
The Prosperity Gospel
Rauf, Feisal Abdul (1948–)
Reagan, Ronald (1911–2004)
Reformed Denominations
The Religious Right
Renewal Movements in Mainline Denominations
Robertson, Pat (1930–)
Ruether, Rosemary Radford (1936–)
Saperstein, David (1947–)
Schaeffer, Francis (1912–1984)
Scientology
Secular Humanism
Sheen, Fulton (1895–1979)
Shoemaker, Samuel (1893–1963)
Skinner, Thomas (1942–1994)
Swindoll, Charles (1934–)
The Tea Party Movement
Televangelists
Transcendental Meditation
The Unification Church
University of Notre Dame
Van Til, Cornelius (1895–1987)
Vedanta Society
Wahhaj, Siraj (1950–)
Warren, Rick (1954–)
Webb, Imam Suhaib (1972–)
Wheaton College
Wicca
Wolpe, David (1958–)
World Vision
Yoder, John Howard (1927–1997)
Young Life
Zen Buddhism
Primary Source Documents
Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
