Donald C Swift

Religion and the American Experience

A Social and Cultural History, 1765-1996: A Social and Cultural History, 1765-1996

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Swift's ten chapters cover a wide variety of topics, from religion in the early republic to early African American religion, women, reform, nativism movements, and fundamentalism, all the way up to the contemporary culture wars, spanning nearly two and a half centuries, and synthesizing a large amount of material from social, cultural, and intellectual history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780765601346
• ISBN-10: 0765601346
• Artikelnr.: 21463101

Autorenporträt

Donald C. Swift is a professor of history at Edinboro University of Penn>sylvania. His special interests are American religious, cultural, and social history, and he has worked in a number of interdisciplinary situations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Religion in the New Republic 2. Early African American Religion 3. Native American Religion 4. Societal Change and the Second Awakening 5. Women
the Churches
and Empowerment 6. Reform
Political Divisions
and Disunion 7. Postbellum African American Religion 8. Beyond the Mainstream: Immigrants
Nativism
and Cultural Conflict 9. Socioeconomic Change and Politics 10. Fundamentalists Versus Modernists 11. The Contemporary Scene