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The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat....

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A Political History of the Bible in America

By Paul D. Hanson

"Biblica l history, enriched by many religious and cultural traditions, flows into and is intertwined with our nation's epic, both for better and for worse. To ignore that history is to cut ourselves off from our roots and to deny the ancestral exper...

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A Violent Evangelism
The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas

By Luis N. Rivera

In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He reca...

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The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God
A Political, Economic, Religious Statement

By John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard A. Falk, David Ray Griffin, Catherine Keller

In this book, four distinguished scholars level a powerful critique of the rapid expansion of the emerging American empire and its oppressive and destructive political, military, and economic policies. Arguing that a global Pax Americana is internati...

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Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire
Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire

By Michael S. Northcott

This passionate and powerfully argued book takes its title from President Bush's inaugural speech, when he quoted 18C statesman John Page, who enquired if it were not 'an angel who directed the storm' within which America came into being. Michael No...

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Faith and Knowledge
Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education

By Douglas Sloan

In this book, Douglas Sloan explores the impact that the Protestant theological renaissance had on American colleges and universities. In particular, Sloan focuses on the church's most significant claim to have a continuing voice in higher education:...

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From Preachers to Suffragists
Woman's Rights and Religious Conviction in the Lives of Three Nineteenth-Century

By Beverly Zink-Sawyer

The women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America has primarily been interpreted as a secular movement. However, in From Preachers to Suffragists, Beverly Zink-Sawyer examines the lives of three nineteenth-century clergywomen--Antoinette Brow...

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The Genesis of Liberation
Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

By Emerson B. Powery

Considering that the Bible was used to justify and perpetuate African American enslavement, why would it be given such authority? In this fascinating volume, Powery and Sadler explore how the Bible became a source of liberation for enslaved African A...

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In Our Own Voices
Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing

By Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether

Drawing from primary source documents such as diaries, letters, speeches, sermons, essays, and books from seventeenth-century colonial settlements in North America to today, this volume recovers the contributions of women to American religion. With i...

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Liberty and Justice for All
Racial Reform and the Social Gospel (1877-1925)

By Ronald C. White, Jr

In the century between the "Emancipation Proclamation" of Abraham Lincoln and the "I Have a Dream" speech of Martin Luther King Jr., America sought both to rebuff and to redeem the promise of "liberty and justice for all." The story of slavery and th...

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The Making of American Liberal Theology
Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805-1900

By Gary Dorrien

In this first of a three-volume, comprehensive series, Gary Dorrien mixes theological analysis with historical and biographical detail to present the first comprehensive interpretation of American theological liberalism. Arguing that the indigenous r...

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The Making of American Liberal Theology
Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950

By Gary Dorrien

In this book, the second of his three-volume history, Gary Dorrien explores American theological liberalism in its heyday--at the advent of the research university and the institutionally identified school. He argues that in its prime theological lib...

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The Making of American Liberal Theology
Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950-2005

By Gary Dorrien

In this concluding volume of his magisterial trilogy, Gary Dorrien sustains his previous definition of liberal theology and his mixture of theological, philosophical, and historical analysis, while emphasizing the unprecedented diversity of liberal t...

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Social Ethics
An Examination of American Moral Traditions

By Roger G. Betsworth

Roger Betsworth introduces ethics by focusing on the cultural narratives that shape American images of self and world: the biblical story, the American gospel of success, the idea of wellbeing, and the global mission of America. These cultural narrat...

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The Story of Religion in America, Introduction to American Religion, Religion in America, United States Religion, US Religion Texbook, Religion in the United States, The Story of Religion in America An Introduction, James P. Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler, James P. Byrd, James Hudnut-Beumler, Introduction to religious history, religious history textbook; F2021;GAEI

The Story of Religion in America
An Introduction

By James P. Byrd, James Hudnut-Beumler

Written primarily for undergraduate classes in American religious history and organized chronologically, this new textbook presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain centr...

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