Religion and American cultures : an encyclopedia of traditions, diversity, and popular expressions /

Religion and American cultures : an encyclopedia of traditions, diversity, and popular expressions / Gary Laderman and Luis Le on, editors ; foreword by Amanda Porterfield. - Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, (c)2003. - 3 volume (xviii, 1046 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm.



VOLUME 1: -- African American Religions -- African American Christianity -- African American Religious Leaders -- African Americans and Islam -- African-Derived American Religions -- Asian American Religious Communities -- Chinese American Religious Communities -- Japanese American Religious Communities -- Korean American Religious Communities -- Pacific Islander American Religious Communities -- South Asian American Religious Communities -- Buddhism in America -- Buddhist Churches of America -- Mahayana Religious Communities -- Soka Gakkai International-USA -- Theravada Religious Communities -- Tibetan Buddhism -- Zen -- Catholicism in America -- Conversion to Catholicism -- Nuns and Priests -- Our Lady of Guadalupe -- Public Catholicism -- Vatican II -- Hinduism in America -- Hare Krishna Movement -- Hindu Temples -- Reinventions -- Vedanta Society -- Islam in America -- Ahmadiyyah Movement -- Conversion to Islam -- Islamic Organizations in America -- Shi'ite Movements -- Sufism in America -- Sunni Religious Communities -- Judaism in America -- American Synagogue, The -- Assimilation and Jewish Ethnicity -- Holocaust and Israel -- Jewishness/Judaism in America -- Politics and the Identity of American Jews -- Latina/Latino Religious Communities -- Central and South American Religious Communities -- Cuban American Religious Communities -- Feminist Theology from a Mujerista Perspective -- Latina/Latino Protestantism -- Mexican American Religious Communities -- Puerto Rican Religious Communities -- Native American Religions and Politics -- Nationhood -- Native North American Art -- Repatriation -- Shamanism -- Two-Spirit People -- New Age -- Channeling -- Goddess Spirituality -- New Age Bestsellers -- Ra elian Movement -- Whiteshamanism -- Wicca -- New Religious Traditions -- Christian Science -- Communitarian Movements -- Mind Cure -- Mormonism -- Seventh-day Adventism -- Vampire Culture -- Orthodox Christianity -- Greek Orthodoxy -- Native Alaskan Orthodoxy -- Oriental Orthodoxy -- Protestants and Orthodoxy -- Russian Orthodoxy -- Protestantism in America -- Church Growth Movement -- Denominationalism -- Emotion -- Evangelicalism and Gender -- Pentecostalism -- Puritanism. VOLUME 2: -- The Body -- Asian Body Practices -- Christian Spiritual Practices -- Clothing -- Ecstasy -- Pain -- Piercing -- Tattooing -- Wounding -- Death -- AIDS Quilt -- Autopsies -- Days of the Dead (D ias de los Muertos) -- Euthanasia -- Mourning Rituals -- Roadside Shrines -- Spiritualism -- Generations -- Aging, Eldership, and Religion -- Baby Boomers -- Children and Young People -- The Family -- Generation X -- Material Culture -- Christian Retailing -- Modern Catholic Church Decorations -- Victorian Bibles -- Popular Culture -- Advertising -- Cultural Saints -- Faith -- Film -- Religion in the News -- Popular Theodicies -- Antebellum America -- Civil War and the Late Nineteenth Century -- Colonial Period -- Evil in the Twentieth Century -- Public Theologies and Political Culture -- Civil Religion -- Civil Rights Movement -- Conservatism -- Feminisms -- Fundamentalism -- Law -- Liberalism -- Ritual and Performance -- Childbirth -- Civic and Political Ritual Performances -- Dance -- Feminist Theater -- Funerals -- Gender Shows -- Prayer -- Sports -- Therapy and Healing -- Tourism -- Weddings -- Sacred Space -- Cyberspace -- Las Vegas -- Nature -- Shopping Malls -- Shrines -- The Suburban Home -- Sacred Time -- Ancient Communities of Time -- Christmas -- Easter -- End Times -- Fourth of July -- Thanksgiving -- Vacations -- Science -- Evolution -- Healing -- Human Genome Project -- Science Fiction -- Technology -- Sexuality -- Abortion -- The Bible and Sodom in America -- Masturbation -- Reproduction -- Sexual Dissidence -- Sexual Identities -- Violence -- Apocalypticism -- Lynching -- Sacrifice -- Terrorism -- War. VOLUME 3: -- Excerpt from Anne Hutchinson Trial (1637) -- Excerpt from Cambridge Platform, Congregational Church synod (1648) -- The Maryland Toleration Act (1649) -- Half-Way Covenant, Congregational Synod (1662) -- Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (1701) -- Excerpts from Magnalia Christi Americana : or, the Ecclesiastical History of New England (1702) The Eternity of Hell-Torments (1772) Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, (1741) Declaration of Independence, July 4 (1776) -- Excerpt from The Salvation of All Men (1784) Excerpt from Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion, and the Superiority of the Former over the Latter (1804) To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation (1806) Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1813) Excerpt from Unitarian Christianity (1830) Excerpt from What a Revival of Religion Is (1835) Excerpt from Appeal to The Christian Women of the South (1836) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) -- Another Camp Meeting (1850) Treaty with the Apache (1852) -- A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) Georgia Secession (1861) -- Motives to Early Piety (1861) The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862) Emancipation Proclamation (1863) The New Colossus (1883) Pittsburgh Platform, Central Conference of American Rabbis (1885) -- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Colored Woman (1888) Excerpt from The Gospel of Wealth (1889) Excerpt from Theosophy and Theosophical Society : The Meaning of the Name (1889) Remarks at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago (1893) Excerpt from A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896) Excerpt from The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk (1903) In Memoriam : W.J.B. (1925) The Screen as a Religious Teacher, in Theatre (1927) The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 -- Christ in Alabama (1931) Excerpt from A Common Faith (1934) Clergy Letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1935) The Liturgy the Basis of Social Regeneration, from The Liturgy of the Church according to the Roman Rite and Orate Frates (1938) Aims and Purposes (1940) Excerpt from There Is a River : The Story of Edgar Cayce (1945) Excerpt from Minority Report (1956) Military-Industrial Complex Speech (1961) I Have a Dream (1963) On Evolution, from The Catholic Encyclopedia How to Remember, from Here and Hereafter (1968) The Plan of Aztlan -- Homosexuality and the Church, in Christianity and Crisis (1977) Inaugural Address (1977) Camp David Accords (1978) -- Excerpt from Creative Visualization (1978) American Indian Religious Freedom Act, United States Congress (1978) -- Excerpt from Listen, America! (1980) Declaration on Euthanasia, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican -- The Evil Empire Speech Excerpt from Dancing in the Light (1985) Excerpt from Sex and Death at the Age of Fourteen Excerpt from Songs for America : Poems by Daisaku Ikeda (1987) Lyrics from Ale Brider/We're all Brothers Buddhism is the Clear Mirror that Reflects Our Lives (1990) Excerpt from The New World Order (1991) Excerpt from The Unseen Shore : Memories of a Christian Science Childhood (1991) Religious Freedom Restoration Act, United States Congress (1993) -- Renewing the Heart of Faith : A Prophetic Convergence of the People of God, in Sojourners (1993) Anonymous letter from parents of a gay son, in Lutheran Partners (1994) -- Difference is No Excuse for Hatred, in Christian Social Action (1994) Excerpt from The Healing of America (1997) A Season for Understanding : Observance of Islam's Holy Period of Ramadan Begins Monday with Fasting and an Emphasis on Self-Restraint and Generosity ... (2002) September 11 Attack on America, Proclamation 7462 (2001) Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America (2002) Cotton Mather -- George Whitefield -- Jonathan Edwards -- Charles Chauncy -- Thomas Paine -- Thomas Jefferson -- John Adams -- William Ellery Channing -- Charles Grandison Finney -- Angelina E. Grimk e -- Sojourner Truth -- Henry David Thoreau -- Harlan Page -- Julia Ward Howe -- Abraham Lincoln -- Emma Lazarus -- Frances E. W. Harper -- Andrew Carnegie -- H.P. Blavatsky -- Swami Vivekananda -- Andrew Dickson White -- Swami Vivekananda -- W.E.B. Dubois -- H. L. Mencken -- Cecil B. DeMille -- Langston Hughes -- John Dewey -- Cyril E. Bentley -- Virgil Michel -- Dorothy Day -- Thomas Sugrue -- H. L. Mencken -- Dwight Eisenhower -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- O.W. Garrigan -- Ruth Montgomery -- James Nelson -- Jimmy Carter -- Shakti Gawain -- Jerry Falwell -- Ronald Reagan -- Shirley Maclaine -- Spalding Gray -- Daisaku Ikeda -- Klezmatics -- Daisaku Ikeda -- Pat Robertson -- Thomas Simmons -- Jim Wallis -- Diana Eck -- Marianne Williamson -- Teresa Watanabe -- George W. Bush -- Immigration and Naturalization Service.



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