Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans

Name: Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans
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ISBN: 9780195051889

ISBN-10: 0195051882

ISBN-13: 9780195051889

Edition: 1986

Authors: R. Laurence Moore

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Throughout history, the reality of America's diverse religious life has continually been subordinated to the themes of Protestant unity and dominance. At the centre of this study are seven religious groups that are usually accorded a secondary influence on American culture: the Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists, Millennialists, 20th-century Protestant Fundamentalists, and the black churches. Through these groups Moore boldly shows that the conventional distinctions between what is "mainstream" and what is "marginal" in American culture are largely strategical fictions created by historians and historical actors, and that many of these "outside" groups in fact embody values that…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/3/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.20" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction: Protestant Unity and the American Mission--The Historiography of a Desire



Outsider Religions, Ethnicity, and American Identity



How To Become a People: The Mormon Scenario



Managing Catholic Success in a Protestant Empire



American Jews as an Ordinary Minority



The Progressive's Despair--Religions for Average Americans



Christian Science and American Popular Religion



Premillennial Christian Views of God's Justice and American Injustice



The Protestant Majority as a Lost Generation--A Look at Fundamentalism



Black Culture and Black Churches--The Quest for an Autonomous Identity


Postscript: Civil and Uncivil Religions--Describing Religious Pluralism


Notes


Index