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American Religious History (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.

Healing in the History of Christianity
Amanda Porterfield

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing. In the second century, St. Ignatius was the first to describe the eucharist as the medicine of immortality. Prudentius, a 4th-century poet and Christian apologist, celebrated the healing power of St. Cyprian's tongue. Bokenham, in his 15th-century Legendary, reported the healing power of milk from St. ...

The Transformation of American Religion: The Story of a Late-Twentieth-Century Awakening
Amanda Porterfield

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

As recently as a few decades ago, most people would have described America as a predominantly Protestant nation. Today, we are home to a colorful mix of religious faiths and practices, from a resurgent Catholic Church and a rapidly growing Islam to all forms of Buddhism and many other non-Christian religions. How did this startling transformation take place? A great many factors contributed to this transformation, writes Amanda Porterfield in ...

Modern Christianity to 1900: A People's History of Christianity

Fortress Press, 2007

After the Reformation, Christians found themselves living amidst wars of religion, Enlightenment, and colonization. This volume explores the spread of Christianity to lands outside Europe and the Middle East, the new pluralism within Christianity, and the incredible transformation of the Americas and of Christianity in the Americas, including the advent of Evangelical, African American, and Asian Christianities. Includes 50 ...

Church History: Studies in Christianity & Culture (Vol 75, Number 3: Sep 2006)

American Society of Church History, FSU, 2006

Journal--Volume 75, Number 3: Sep 2006.

Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 0009-6407, Vol. 76:No. 3 2007:Sep
Amanda Porterfield John Corrigan

American Society of Church History, 2007

The central purpose of the American Society of Church History, founded in 1888, is the scholarly study of the history of Christianity and its relationship to surrounding cultures in all periods, locations and contexts. Through publications conferences, awards, research support, and other means, the Society encourages the study of the Christian church and faith, its figures and movements, in institutional and non-institutional settings.

Church History Vol. 75 No. 4 December 2006: Studies in Christianity & Culture
Wendy Love Anderson, Thomas J. Little, Pamela E. Klassen, Nancy R. Heisey, et al. Nicole Kelly

American Soc. of Church History, 2006

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Church History: Studies in Christianity & Culture [Vol. 76 No. 2 - June 2007]
John and Amanda Porterfield Corrigan

American Society of Chruch History, 2007

The Power of Religion: A Comparative Introduction
Amanda Porterfield

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

The Power of Religion is an engaging introduction to six religious traditions--Native American religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism--which recognizes the diversity of religious belief and offers both comparative and historical analysis. Genuinely accessible to undergraduates and general readers, it shows how various forms of these traditions are lived out in practice, experience, and community, presenting religions as ...

Church History: Studies in Christianity & Culture [Vol. 76 No. 1 - March 2007]
John and Amanda Porterfield Corrigan

American Society of Chruch History, 2007

Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (Religion in America)
Amanda Porterfield

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century, enabling them not only to disseminate religious principles but also to break into public life and create expanded opportunities for themselves and other women. No institution was more closely associated with women missionaries that Mount Holyoke College. This book examines Mount Holyoke founder Mary Lyon ...

Myth: An entry from MACM's Contemporary American Religion
Amanda Porterfield

MACM, 1999

More than 500 articles cover the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs.

Women and Religion in Early America 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions.: An article from: ...
Amanda Porterfield

American Society of Church History, 2000

This digital document is an article from Church History, published by American Society of Church History on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1165 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Women and Religion in Early ...

Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism (Religion in America)
Amanda Porterfield

Oxford University Press, USA, 1991

A synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, Porterfield's book combines insightful analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed examinations of historical records showing the changing patterns of church membership and domestic life. She finds that by conflating marriage as a trope of grace with marriage as a social construct, Puritan ministers invested relationships between husbands and wives with religious meaning. ...

Religious Studies. (Book Reviews).(Religion and Public Life in Canada: Historical and Comparative ...
Amanda Porterfield

Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, 2002

This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 984 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details ...

The Protestant Experience in America (The American Religious Experience)
Amanda Porterfield

Greenwood Press, 2006

Protestants have been the dominant religious group since the colonial period, and they remain a vibrant and influential cultural force in the United States. But the term "Protestant" encompasses people with a vast range of beliefs, backgrounds, politics, and experiences, and this books provides an accessible introduction to this complex situation. The Protestant Experience in America lays out the history of Protestants in America, the core ...

Religion on Campus

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Conrad Cherry, Betty A. DeBerg, ...

The University of North Carolina Press, 2001

How do American Students Feel about Religion?
How do American students feel about the subject of religion? Do they feel it still has significance in their lives? Do they actively participate in religious activities? Are they becoming less and less active in religion and more and more secular as each year passes? Conrad Cherry, Amamda Porterfield, and Betty Deberg selected four colleges to conduct a study about religious attitudes in America ...

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