Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 1 - Princeton Readings in Religions

Commendation Quotes: This anthology presents the reader with a rich sampling of the ways in which American religion has been practiced. It implicitly challenges some of the standard temporal and thematic categories through which American religion has been understood. The volumes will be useful as reference works and in courses about American religious history. There is much here that does not appear in standard treatments of the subject. Review Quotes: This rich collection opens the reader's mind to an impressive range of religious practice and serves as a valuable complement to traditional approaches to American religious studies. Highly recommended for general readers through faculty. -- "ChoiceReview Quotes: This rich collection opens the reader's mind to an impressive range of religious practice and serves as a valuable complement to traditional approaches to American religious studies. Highly recommended for general readers through faculty. -- ChoiceTable of Contents: Princeton Readings in Religions v Contributors ix Introduction by Colleen McDannell Praying: Individual and Communal Worship 1. The Amidah in Colonial Americanm Synagogues by Dianne Ashton 11 2. Seventeenth-Century Puritan Conversion Narratives by Elizabeth Reis 22 3. The Book of Common Prayer and Eighteenth-Century Episcopalians by Robert Bruce Mullin 32 4. The Green Corn Ceremony of the Muskogees by Joel W. Martin 48 5. The Way of Holiness: The Friday Meeting by A. Gregory Schneider 67 6. Reception of Novices into the Order of the Sisters of St. Benedict by Patricia O'Connell Killen 74 Singing: Songs of Devotion, Praise, and Protest 7. English Hymnody in Early America by Michael J. McClymond 89 8. The 1842 Hymnal of Penina Moise by Dianne Ashton 108 9. Catholic Song in the Antebellum United States by Robert R. Grimes, S. J. 122 10. African American Spirituals by Paul Harvey 138 11. Ojibwe Funerary Hymn Singing by Michael D. McNally 150 12. Temperance Songs and Hymns by Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford 158 Teaching: Learning How to Live Correctly 13. The Celebration of Marriage in the Dutch Reformed Church by Daniel James Meeter 171 14. The Visions of Plenty-coups by Joel W. Martin 181 15. Mary Anne Sadlier's Advice for Irish Catholic Girls by Liz Szabo Hernadi 197 16. John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida Community, and Male Continence by Michael J. McClymond 218 17. Is Life Worth Living? by Paul Jerome Croce 234 18. In His Steps: A Social Gospel Novel by Janet C. Olson 253 Healing: Health, Happiness, and the Miraculous 19. The Spiritual Meanings of Illness in Eighteenth-Century New England by Kenneth P Minhema 269 20. Supernaturalism and Healing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Grant Underwood 299 21. Christian Physiology and Diet Reform by Peter Gardella 310 22. Sickness, Death, and Illusion in Christian Science by Craig R. Prentiss 320 23. The Miracles of St. Anthony of Padua by Timothy J. Meagher 337 Imagining: The Unseen World 24. The Life and Death of Mother Marie de Saint Joseph by Julia Boss 347 25. Possession, Witchcraft, and the Demonic in Puritan Religious Culture by Kenneth P Minhema 366 26. Speech of Sose-Ha-Wā and the Code of Handsome Lake by Matthew Dennis 402 27. A Methodist Dream of Heaven and Homeland by A. Gregory Schneider 417 28. African-American Vision Stories by Elizabeth Reis 426 Persuading: Witnessing, Controversies, and Polemics 29. Native American Visionary Experience and Christian Missions by Michael D. McNally 445 30. American Anti-Catholic Pornography by Peter Gardella 452 31. The Christian Doctrine of Slavery by Paul Harvey 466 32. Trance Lecturers in Antebellum America by Ann Braude 483 33. The Cremation versus Burial Debate by Stephen Prothero 492 Index 505Review Quotes: "This rich collection opens the reader's mind to an impressive range of religious practice and serves as a valuable complement to traditional approaches to American religious studies. Highly recommended for general readers through faculty."--"Choice" Marc Notes: Incl. bibl. ref. and index; Vol. 1 of 2; Cloth avail. @ $75.00. Publisher Marketing:"Religions of the United States in Practice" is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 1 explores faith through action from Colonial times through the nineteenth century. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people--praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while other texts describe more spontaneous religious actions. Because religious practices also take place in the imagination, dreams, visions, and fictional accounts are also included. Accompanying each primary document is an essay that sets the religious practice in its historical and theological context--making this volume ideal for classroom use and accessible to any reader. The introductory essays explain the various meanings of religious practices as lived out in churches and synagogues, in parlors and fields, beside rivers, on lecture platforms, and in the streets."Religions of the United States in Practice" offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States. The history of religion in America is more than the story of institutions and famous people. This anthology presents a more nuanced story composed of the everyday actions and thoughts of lay men and women. Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  McDannell, Colleen Colleen McDannell is Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of History at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She is the author of Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression, Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America and Heaven: AHistory.