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| Approaches to American Religious History | |
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| Essays | |
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| Democracy in America Vol. 1, �Indirect Influence of Religious Opinions upon Political Society.� | |
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| Women�s History is American Religious History | |
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| Church Membership Has Increased Throughout American History, Especially in the Most Demanding Groups | |
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| European-Indian Encounters | |
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| Bernal Diaz del Castillo Describes Cortes� Replacement of Human Sacrifice with the Cult of the Virgin Mary, c. 1519. 2. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish Castaway, Becomes an Indian healer, 1542 | |
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| Joseph Jouvency, a Jesuit Priest, Discusses Death and Hell with Canadian Indians, 1610 | |
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| Roger Williams Explains Rhode Island Indians� Language and Religion, 1643 | |
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| Mary Jemison Describes the Five Feasts by Which the Seneca Marked the Changing Seasons, c.1750 | |
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| Tecaughretanego Explains Why the Great Spirit Sometimes Permits Men to Go Hungry Before Feeding Them, 1758 | |
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| John Heckwelder Describes the Delaware Indians� View of Bear Spirits, c.1750 | |
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| John Muir Witnesses the Conversion of Thlinkit Indians to Christianity, c.1876 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Civilization | |
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| Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees Struggle for a New World | |
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| Religious Life in the British Colonies: 1607-1775 | |
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| Documents | |
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| John Winthrop Outlines His Plan for a Godly Settlement, 1630 | |
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| William Bradford Sees God�s Mercy and Judgment in New England�s Changing Fortunes, 1654 | |
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| Cotton Mather Advises John Richards on Detecting Witches, 1692 | |
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| Jonathan Edwards on the beginnings of revival | |
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| Nathan Cole on hearing Whitfield | |
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| Benjamin Franklin Explains His Religious Views in a Letter, 1756 | |
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| Charles Woodmason, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution, circa. 1770 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Puritans� Errand into the Wilderness | |
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| Heathens and Infidels: African Christianization | |
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| Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt | |
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| Religion and Revolution: 1775-1795 | |
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| Documents | |
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| Abraham Keteltas, sermon from 1777, �God Arising and Pleading His People�s Cause.� 2. Jonathan Boucher�s Loyalist Sermon Denounces the Revolution, 1775 | |
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| Anthony Benezet, Quaker, Denounces War, 1776 | |
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| Isaac Backus, History of New England Baptists | |
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| Lucy Wight Meets Shaker Leader Mother Ann Lee, (c. 1780), 1826 | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Establishes Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1786 | |
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| Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, Federalist 51 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Religion and American | |
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| Deists | |
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| How the Revolution Stimulated New Religious Movements | |
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| Religion in the Early Republic: 1790-1850 | |
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| Documents | |
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| Peter Cartwright, Autobiography, 1856 | |
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| Charles Grandison Finney Stirs Up Religious Emotions at Revival Meetings, 1835 | |
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| Joseph Smith Explains How an Angel Guided Him to Found the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), 1842 | |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson Describes the �Over-Soul,� 1841 | |
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| Anonymous Ex-Slave Sees the Ghost of Her Dead Master c.1850 | |
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| Henry Bibb, a Slave, Uses Conjuring to Prevent Harm and Attract Women, 1849 | |
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| Samuel Ringgold Ward Escapes from Slavery and Becomes a Minister (1820), 1855 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Awash in a Sea of Faith | |
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| The Slaves� Own Religion | |
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| Immigrants and Reformers | |
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| Documents | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville Sees Catholicism and Democracy as Compatible, 1835 | |
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| Maria Monk Shocks Protestant Readers with Allegations of Sex and Violence in a Nunnuery, 1836 | |
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| John Francis Maguire Recounts the Suffering of Irish Catholic Immigrants (1846), 1887 | |
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| Benajmin Roth Warns His Emigrant Son Solomon About Moral and Religious Dangers in America, 1854 | |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe Advocates Enlightened Observance of the Sabbath, 1853 | |
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| Angelina Grimke Uses the Bible to Justify Abolishing Slavery, 1838 | |
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| Frederick Douglass Compares Southern Slaveowners� Religion with That of Jesus, 1845 | |
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| Thornton Stringfellow Argues That the Bible Is Pro-slavery, 1860 | |
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| Essays | |
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| American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America�s Most Powerful Church | |
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| Slaveholders and the Bible. | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Documents | |
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| John Candler Gregg, union chaplain with the 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers | |
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| William W. Bennett, Narrative of the Great Revival in the Southern Armies | |
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| Thomas Wentworth Higginson Witnesses the Religious Life of Black Soldiers, 1864 | |
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| George Barton Remembers a Pious Irish-American Nun Nursing the Wounded at Shiloh, 1863 | |
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| Arthur Howard Noll, Doctor Quintard, Chaplain CSA | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, �Gettysburg Address� and �Second Inaugural Address.� 7. Isaac Lane, From Slave to Preacher Among the Freedmen | |
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| Essays | |
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| Civil War as Armageddon | |
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| Stonewall Jackson and the Providence of God.� | |
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| Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War. | |
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| Temperance and the New Immigration | |
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| Documents | |
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| Charles Sheldon, editorials in The Jesus Newspaper: The Christian Experiment of 1900 and its Lessons for Today | |
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| Carry Nation, The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation | |
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| Booth Tucker Describes the Salvation Army�s Social and Gospel Work in Slums and Saloons, 1900 | |
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| Rosa, an Immigrant, Contrasts Her Italian Catholicism with the American Version, c. 1890 | |
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| Abraham Cahan Shows How American Business Life and Religious Pluralism Shattered a Russian Jewish Immigrant�s Traditional Faith, 1916 | |
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| Anzia Yezierska Confronts an Orthodox Jewish Father over Changing Patterns of Religion and Women�s Work, 1925 | |
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| Swami Vivekananda Describes His Life as a Hindu Celebrity in America, 1893 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Madonna of 115th St | |
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| American Judaism: A History | |
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| Intellectual Controversies | |
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| Documents | |
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| Charles Hodge Denounces Darwin�s Theory of Evolution as Atheistic, 1874 | |
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| Lyman Abbott Argues That Christianity and Evolutionary Theory Are Compatible, 1892 | |
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| Harold Frederic�s Fictional Methodist Preacher Discovers His Ignorance of Biblical History, 1896 | |
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| Washington Gladden Explains Higher Criticism, 1894 | |
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| William Jennings Bryan Defends Biblical Infallibility, 1924 | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Finds Feminist Messages in Genesis, 1895 | |
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| George Herron Depicts Jesus as a Revolutionary Socialist, 1899 | |
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| W. E. B. DuBois, Jesus Christ in Texas | |
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| Essays | |
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| Darwin and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution | |
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| American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. | |
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| Adapting To Modernity and Complexity | |
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| Documents | |
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| Virginia Durr, Outside the Magic Circle | |
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| Amy Semple McPherson, This is That: Personal Experiences, Sermons and Writings | |
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| Clara Grillo Recalls Protestant-Catholic Tensions in Cleveland, c. 1920 | |
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| Jacob Sonderling, Immigrant Rabbi, Observes American Jewish life, c. 1930 | |
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| Sinclair Lewis Satirizes the Narrowness of Midwestern Baptists, 1927 | |
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| Mordecai Kaplan Defends Jews� Life in Two Civilizations, 1948 | |
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| Will Herberg Analyzes Religion and Assimilation, 1955 | |
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| Donald Thorman Assesses New Roles for Catholic Laity, 1962 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Jewish Food and Jewish Identity | |
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| Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism | |
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| Catholics and American Culture. | |
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| Religion and Protest Movements | |
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| Documents | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., Preaches on the Power of Love, 1963 | |
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| James Baldwin Becomes a Boy Preacher in Harlem (c. 1936), 1963 | |
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| Two Statements by Malcolm X: 1. God�s Judgment of White America (Dec. 1963) and 2. Letter From Mecca (April 1964) | |
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| National Conference of Black Churchmen Demands Equal Power, 1966 | |
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| Christianity Today Criticizes Black Americans� Intimidation of White Churches, 1969 | |
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| Tom Cornell, Catholic Worker Pacifism | |
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| Tina Bell joins an Anti-Abortion Demonstration, 1988 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Leadership | |
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| Urban Catholics and the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Religion and Counterculture | |
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| Documents | |
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| Jacob Needleman Discovers the Appeal of Eastern Religions, 1970 | |
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| Hal Lindsay Foresees the Millennial �Rapture,� 1970 | |
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| Eric Norman, Gods and Devils from Outer Space | |
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| Brad Steiger, The UFO Abductors | |
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| J. Stillson Judah Explains Why Hippies Join the Hare Krishnas, 1974 | |
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| Starhawk Advocates Witchcraft, 1979 | |
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| Carol Christ is Initiated into Goddess Worship, 1987 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Religion in America Since 1945: A History 2. J. Gordon Melton, Rise and Fall of the New Age Movement | |
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| New Immigrants and Religious Multiculturalism | |
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| Documents | |
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| Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola: A Voudou Priestess in Brooklyn | |
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| Charles Munzy Attends Vietnamese Funerals in Oklahoma City, 1989 | |
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| Richard Rodriguez Recalls His Hispanic-Catholic Childhood, 1981 | |
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| Kambiz GhaneaBassiri Explains Muslims� Mixed Feelings About American Culture, 1997 | |
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| Richard Wormser Describes Pressures on Muslim Teenagers in American High Schools, 1994 | |
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| Prema Kurien Explains Hindus� Adjustments to American life, 1998 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Dynamics of Islamic Identity in North America | |
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| Latinos and the New Immigrant Church | |
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| Contrasting Immigrant Buddhists and �White Buddhists.� | |
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| Religion, Politics, and the Constitution | |
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| Documents | |
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| Billy Graham Urges a Troubled Nation to Turn Back to God, 1965 | |
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| C. Stanley Lowell Defends His Fear of Catholics in 1960 | |
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| Joseph M. Hopkins Deplores the Supreme Court�s Decision Against School Prayers, 1963 | |
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| Evangelicals for Social Action Offer Guidance on Voting Biblically, 1980 | |
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| Langdon Gilkey Opposes Creation Science, 1985 | |
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| Christianity Today Describes Political Coalition-Building to Restore Religion in Schools, 1984 | |
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| Wilfred M. McClay Warns Against the Political Contamination of Religion, 1988 | |
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| Michael W. McConnell Fears for American Religious Freedom, 1990 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Supreme Court and the First Amendment | |
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| Fundamentalism and Politics. | |
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| Religion at the Turn of the Millennium: 1990-2010 | |
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| Documents | |
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| Gustav Niebuhr, Men Crowd Stadiums to Fulfill Their Souls | |
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| Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal | |
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| Editors of Christianity Today, Walking in Truth | |
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| Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson discussion on �700 Club� argue that the ACLU and abortionists must share blame for 9/11 attack | |
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| Frank Silecchia, The Cross at Ground Zero | |
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| Jeremiah Wright, Confusing God and Government | |
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| Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union | |
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| Essays | |
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| Islam in America Post 9/11 | |
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| A People Adrift | |
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| The Hindu Gods in a Split-Level World: The Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple in Suburban Washington, DC | |
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