| Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans Contributor(s): Moore, R. Laurence (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195051882 ISBN-13: 9780195051889 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $44.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1987 Annotation: In light of the curious compulsion to stress Protestant dominance in America's past, this book takes an unorthodox look at religious history in America. Rather than focusing on the usual mainstream Protestant churches--Episcopal, Congregationalist, Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran--Moore instead turns his attention to the equally important "outsiders" in the American religious experience and tests the realities of American religious pluralism against their history in America. Through separate but interrelated chapters on seven influential groups of "outsiders"--the Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists, Millennialists, 20th-century Protestant Fundamentalists, and the African-American churches--Moore shows that what was going on in mainstream churches may not have been the "normal" religious experience at all, and that many of these "outside" groups embodied values that were, in fact, quintessentially American. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Religion | Comparative Religion - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 291.097 |
| LCCN: 8508968 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.54" W x 8.54" (0.81 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: In light of the curious compulsion to stress Protestant dominance in America's past, this book takes an unorthodox look at religious history in America. Rather than focusing on the usual mainstream Protestant churches--Episcopal, Congregationalist, Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran--Moore instead turns his attention to the equally important outsiders in the American religious experience and tests the realities of American religious pluralism against their history in America. Through separate but interrelated chapters on seven influential groups of outsiders--the Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists, Millennialists, 20th-century Protestant Fundamentalists, and the African-American churches--Moore shows that what was going on in mainstream churches may not have been the normal religious experience at all, and that many of these outside groups embodied values that were, in fact, quintessentially American. |