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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"American religious history"”.
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The Making of American Religious Experience: a Socio-Political Critique of 'Experience' in American Religious History
… scholars upon the categories "experience" and "religious experience" in their writing of American religious history. I will argue that as it is employed by most historians of American religion, the category of "experience" (in its many forms) fails to provide scholars with an adequate conceptual …
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The Utilization Of Local History In Teaching American Religious History: A Gilded Age And Progressive Era North Dakota Case Study
<p>Teachers of college-level courses on American religious history generally leave out the importance of local and regional histories when telling the story of religion in America. The study of local history provides a fertile ground for understanding broad national trends in a local context. This …
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We go back: antimodernism in the early Catholic Worker Movement
… for their antimodernism by way of his notion of history, which exalted the medieval and condemned the modern. By examining the Workers until approximately the 1950s, the study demonstrates that key aspects of the movement - namely, charity, poverty, and views on community - were influenced by …
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The Foundations and Early Development of Mormon Mission Theory
… as it developed within the context of early American religious history.</p>
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"Choosing the Jesus Way:" the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity
<p>This dissertation explores the history of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians, the development of an American Indian leadership in the denomination and the development of a Pentecostal Indian identity. The history that is told in this work is that of a century-long struggle …
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Tracing the Finger of God: The Role of Wonders In Catholic Spirituality In Early America
… among Catholics in the New World. In the American setting, wonders were not only supportable, but served a practical function: they assured Catholics of divine approbation in the midst of criticism and conflict. The dissertation contextualizes, moreover, early American Catholics' belief in …
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American Protestants and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Soviet Union during the Eisenhower Administration: Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and G. Bromley Oxnam
This dissertation considers American Protestant perceptions of U.S. foreign policy directed toward Soviet Union during the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency (1953-1961). The question of what a culture dominated by Protestant denominations thought of its global adversary has not yet been sufficiently …
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John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith, 1960-1963
… turning point that announced a new era, free of religious prejudice, and marked the beginning of the “secular sixties.” In fact, religious concerns, including old denominational animosities, did not suddenly disappear. Faith-based engagement with politics continued through the early 1960s. …
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Reforming manners, redeeming souls : Sunday schools, childhood, and the formation of early nineteenth-century American religious culture.
Merging religious history with childhood studies, this dissertation analyzes Sunday schools from 1790-1860 to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves, helped shape American religious culture. Recent scholarship by historians such as Steven Mintz and Amanda Porterfield have …
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Radical Religious Rebels: The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
… impact that Jerry Falwell had upon the rise of religious fundamentalism within the United States during the latter part of the 20th century. By elucidating the various factors that led Jerry Falwell from a little-known minister from Lynchburg, Virginia to becoming the figurehead of the movement …
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Intertribal Communication, Literacy, and the Spread of the Ghost Dance
<p>During the 1880s, western Native Americans created networks of communication threaded together through postal correspondence and intertribal visitation among reservations. Through this network native groups cultivated intertribal relationships and exchanged ideas despite attempts by the United …