In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.

In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.

Series Editor's Preface.About the Contributors.Introduction.Part I: Historical Essays.1. Errand Into the Wilderness. (Perry Miller).2. Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combinationand American Religious History. (Catherine L. Albanese).3. Shouting Methodists. (Ann Taves).4. Protestantism as Establishment. (William R. Hutchison).5. American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity. (RandallBalmer).6. Catholicism and American Culture: Strategies for Survival.(Jay P. Dolan).7. Conservative Judaism. (Gerson D. Cohen).8. "Introduction," The Faces of Buddhism in America. (Charles S.Prebish).9. Striving for Muslim Women's Human Rights - Before andBeyond Beijing: An African American Perspective. (Gwendolyn ZoharahSimmons).Part II: Primary Documents.10. A Model of Christian Charity (1630). (John Winthrop).11. Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (1637).12. A Key into the Language of America (1643). (RogerWilliams).13. Poems (1640-1665). (Anne Bradstreet).14. The Nature of True Virtue (1765). (Jonathan Edwards).15. Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779). (ThomasJefferson).16. The Code of Handsome Lake (Ca.1800). (EdwardCornplanter).17. What a Revival of Religion Is (1834). (Charles GrandisonFinney).18. The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836).(Jarena Lee).19. Nature (1836). (Ralph Waldo Emerson).20. Poems (1863-1864). (Emily Dickinson).21. The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, andDestiny (1865). (Orestes Brownson).22. Our Country's Place in History (1869). (Isaac M. Wise).23. Pre-Existence of Our Spirits (1872). (Orson Pratt).24. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875). (MaryBaker Eddy).25. A Function of the Social Settlement (1899). (JaneAddams).26. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). (WilliamJames).27. The Scofield Reference Bible (1909).28. Christianity and Liberalism (1923). (J. Gresham Machen).29. From Union Square to Rome (1939). (Dorothy Day).30. The Future of the American Jew (1948). (Mordecai M.Kaplan).31. "Foreword," The Sacred Pipe (1953). (Black Elk).32. "Sunflower Sutra" (1955) and "Kaddish" (1958). (AllenGinsberg).33. Nonviolence and Racial Justice (1957). (Martin Luther KingJr.).34. God's Judgment of White America (1963). (Malcolm X).35. "Preface," The Protestant Establishment (1964): E. DigbyBaltzell.36. Religious Freedom (1966). ( John Courtney Murray).37. Beyond God the Father (1973). (Mary Daly).38. Ceremony (1977). (Leslie Marmon Silko).39. "American Indian Religious Freedom," Public Law 95-341(1978).40. Sexism and God-Talk (1983). (Rosemary Radford Ruether).41. The Voice of Sarah (1990). (Tamar Frankiel).42. Thoughts Without a Thinker (1995). (Mark Epstein).43. Active Faith (1996). (Ralph Reed).Index.