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Preface | |
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Preliminary Considerations | |
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Introduction: Religious America: Diversity and Freedom | |
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Studying and Describing Religion | |
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Why Study Religion? | |
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Studying Religion as a Part of the Humanities | |
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Describing Religion | |
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Popular Religion | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Religion in the Life of the United States | |
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Disestablishment and the Constitution | |
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By the Numbers: Data on Religious America | |
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Religion after 9-11 | |
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Civil Religion and Beyond | |
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Religion on Campus | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Conflict and Controversy | |
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Sexual Misconduct by the Clergy | |
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Gays and Lesbians in Communities of Faith | |
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Religion and Violence After 9-11 | |
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Religious Expression in a Religiously Diverse Culture | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Christianity in the United States-Commonality and Diversity | |
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The Waning Influence of Mainline Protestantism and the New Evangelical Majority | |
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Christian Faith and Practice: Overview | |
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Protestant Christianity | |
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Mainline Protestantism | |
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Denominational Distinctiveness | |
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Evangelicals: The New Center in American Protestantism | |
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Women in Protestantism | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Christianity in American Culture: Diverse Themes | |
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Evangelical Christianity in American Culture: Three Cases | |
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Megachurches | |
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The Religious-Political Right | |
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Separatist Fundamental Christians | |
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Holiness Christians | |
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Pentecostal Christianity | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Catholic Christianity: Sacramental Community | |
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The Distinctiveness of Catholic Christianity | |
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Additional Distinctive Catholic Beliefs | |
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Catholic Worship: Word and Sacrament | |
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Catholic Lifestyles in the United States | |
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The Church as a Social Institution | |
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The Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965 | |
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Who Are American Catholics? | |
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Women in the Catholic Church | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Ethnic Diversity in Christianity: Two Examples | |
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Ethnic Christianity | |
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity | |
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States | |
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African American Christianity | |
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The Changing Face of Ethnic Christianity | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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American-Born Christianities | |
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Overview | |
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Latter-day Saints | |
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Christian Scientists | |
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Seventh-day Adventists | |
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Jehovah's Witnesses | |
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An American Innovation | |
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Community and Reassurance | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Expanding Diversity | |
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Living a Jewish Life in the United States | |
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Who Is a Jew? | |
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A Brief Historical Note | |
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Jews and Christians | |
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Principal Beliefs and Practices of Jewish People | |
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One Judaism, Several Expressions | |
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Jewish Women | |
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Holocaust, Memory, and Religiousness | |
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Anti-Semitism | |
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Into the Future | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Muslims in the United States: A Growing Minority | |
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Islam, and Islam in the United States | |
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Muhammad | |
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The Qur'an | |
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Beliefs | |
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The Five Pillars of Islam | |
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Muslims in the United States | |
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Muslim College Students | |
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Muslim Organizations | |
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Muslima: Muslim Women in America | |
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Islam and Black Americans | |
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Into the Future | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Humanism and the Unitarian Universalists | |
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What Is Humanism? | |
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Humanism in the United States | |
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Humanist Organizations | |
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Atheism and Agnosticism | |
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Unitarian Universalists | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Hindus and Buddhists: Asia Comes to America | |
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Hinduism and Hindus in the United States | |
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American Buddhists and Buddhism | |
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The Call of the Orient | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Other Religious and Spiritual Movements | |
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The Religions of the Native Americans | |
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The New Age Movement | |
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The Self-Help Movement and Twelve-Step Programs | |
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Feminist Wicca | |
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The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches | |
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Religion on the Web | |
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Satanism | |
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Christian Identity | |
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Questions and Activities for Review, Discussion, and Writing | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Relevant World Wide Web Sites | |
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Epilogue: Community and Communication | |
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Index | |