Thomas S. Bremer

Formed from This Soil

An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days.

Organized chronologically starting with the earliest Europeans searching for new routes to Asia, through to the global context of post-9/11 America of the 21st century
Includes discussion of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, political affiliations, and other elements of individual and collective identity
Incorporates recent scholarship for a nuanced history that goes beyond simple explanations of America as a Protestant society
Discusses diverse beliefs and practices that originated in the Americas as well as those that came from Europe, Asia, and Africa
Pedagogical features include numerous visual images; sidebars with specialized topics and interpretive themes; discussion questions for each chapter; a glossary of common terms; and lists of relevant resources to broaden student learning

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189262
• ISBN-10: 1405189266
• Artikelnr.: 40556683

Autorenporträt

Thomas S. Bremer is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. A historian of religions in the Americas, his research focuses on religion and culture, with special emphasis on tourism. He is the author of Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio (2004) and has published a number of articles on religion and tourism in the United States and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments x Prelude for Instructors: A Decentered Narrative of
American Religious History xii Beginnings: The Diversity of Religion in
America 1 Part I New Worlds 11 1 Encounters 13 African Encounters 20
European Conquests in America 27 Native Encounters 39 New Worlds of Contact
47 2 Reformations 52 Religious Upheavals 56 Colonizing America 69 Reforming
Native Religions of America and Africa 80 New Worlds of Reformed
Authorities 85 3 Conflicts and Persecutions 90 Native Revolutions 92
Improvements upon the Land 103 Captivities 108 The Diversity of Religious
Conflicts 117 4 Resistance, Revival, and Revolution 122 Resisting Slavery
125 Reviving Religious Fervor 129 A New Nation 137 The Limits of Liberty
145 Part II The New Nation 153 5 An Expanding Nation 155 America in the
Pacific World 160 A New Awakening 169 A Nation Enslaved 176 Expansion 184 6
The Many Religious Voices 189 Women's Voices 193 Displaced Voices 199
Immigrant Voices 206 Restorationist Voices 212 The Diversity of Religious
Voices in America 223 7 One Nation 231 Spiritual Purposes 235 A Nation
Divided 239 The Nation at War 252 Reconstructing the Nation 254 Diverse
Voices of the Unified Nation 260 8 Changing Society 267 New Lands 270 New
People 279 New Religious Ways 294 America's Double Consciousness 301 Part
III The Modern World 309 9 Modern Worlds 311 Science 313 Religious
Responses to Modern Sciences 318 Migrations 329 Global America 342 10 Cold
War and Civil Rights 349 Religion of the Nation 352 Clash of Classes 359
Confronting Racial Apartheid 368 Liberated People 378 11 A Spiritual Nation
385 Spiritual Immigrants 388 Religious Bodies 398 Spiritual Borderlands 405
Religious America 411 12 Crossing Borders 418 Rethinking America and
Religion 421 Glossary 427 Index 431

Rezensionen

Bremer's text combines features that classroom teachers desire - including a clear chronological narrative as well as images and sidebars on fascinating historical characters and questions - along with provocative challenges to conventional ways of thinking that students will bring to courses. The result is a text that should receive wide usage. Paul Harvey, University of Colorado