Religion and American cultures : an encyclopedia of traditions, diversity, and popular expressions / Gary Laderman and Luis Le on, editors ; foreword by Amanda Porterfield.

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) Cotton Mather -- The Eternity of Hell-Torments (1772) George Whitefield -- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, (1741) Jonathan Edwards -- Declaration of Independence, July 4 (1776) -- Excerpt from The Salvation of All Men (1784) Charles Chauncy -- Excerpt from Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion, and the Superiority of the Former over the Latter (1804) Thomas Paine -- To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation (1806) Thomas Jefferson -- Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1813) John Adams -- Excerpt from Unitarian Christianity (1830) William Ellery Channing -- Excerpt from What a Revival of Religion Is (1835) Charles Grandison Finney -- Excerpt from Appeal to The Christian Women of the South (1836) Angelina E. Grimk e -- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) -- Another Camp Meeting (1850) Sojourner Truth -- Treaty with the Apache (1852) -- A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) Henry David Thoreau -- Georgia Secession (1861) -- Motives to Early Piety (1861) Harlan Page -- The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862) Julia Ward Howe -- Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Abraham Lincoln -- The New Colossus (1883) Emma Lazarus -- Pittsburgh Platform, Central Conference of American Rabbis (1885) -- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Colored Woman (1888) Frances E. W. Harper -- Excerpt from The Gospel of Wealth (1889) Andrew Carnegie -- Excerpt from Theosophy and Theosophical Society : The Meaning of the Name (1889) H.P. Blavatsky -- Remarks at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago (1893) Swami Vivekananda -- Excerpt from A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896) Andrew Dickson White -- Excerpt from The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda -- Excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk (1903) W.E.B. Dubois -- In Memoriam : W.J.B. (1925) H. L. Mencken -- The Screen as a Religious Teacher, in Theatre (1927) Cecil B. DeMille -- The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 -- Christ in Alabama (1931) Langston Hughes -- Excerpt from A Common Faith (1934) John Dewey -- Clergy Letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1935) Cyril E. Bentley -- The Liturgy the Basis of Social Regeneration, from The Liturgy of the Church according to the Roman Rite and Orate Frates (1938) Virgil Michel -- Aims and Purposes (1940) Dorothy Day -- Excerpt from There Is a River : The Story of Edgar Cayce (1945) Thomas Sugrue -- Excerpt from Minority Report (1956) H. L. Mencken -- Military-Industrial Complex Speech (1961) Dwight Eisenhower -- I Have a Dream (1963) Martin Luther King, Jr. -- On Evolution, from The Catholic Encyclopedia O.W. Garrigan -- How to Remember, from Here and Hereafter (1968) Ruth Montgomery -- The Plan of Aztlan -- Homosexuality and the Church, in Christianity and Crisis (1977) James Nelson -- Inaugural Address (1977) Jimmy Carter -- Camp David Accords (1978) -- Excerpt from Creative Visualization (1978) Shakti Gawain -- American Indian Religious Freedom Act, United States Congress (1978) -- Excerpt from Listen, America! (1980) Jerry Falwell -- Declaration on Euthanasia, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican -- The Evil Empire Speech Ronald Reagan -- Excerpt from Dancing in the Light (1985) Shirley Maclaine -- Excerpt from Sex and Death at the Age of Fourteen Spalding Gray -- Excerpt from Songs for America : Poems by Daisaku Ikeda (1987) Daisaku Ikeda -- Lyrics from Ale Brider/We're all Brothers Klezmatics -- Buddhism is the Clear Mirror that Reflects Our Lives (1990) Daisaku Ikeda -- Excerpt from The New World Order (1991) Pat Robertson -- Excerpt from The Unseen Shore : Memories of a Christian Science Childhood (1991) Thomas Simmons -- Religious Freedom Restoration Act, United States Congress (1993) -- Renewing the Heart of Faith : A Prophetic Convergence of the People of God, in Sojourners (1993) Jim Wallis -- Anonymous letter from parents of a gay son, in Lutheran Partners (1994) -- Difference is No Excuse for Hatred, in Christian Social Action (1994) Diana Eck -- Excerpt from The Healing of America (1997) Marianne Williamson -- 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) Teresa Watanabe -- September 11 Attack on America, Proclamation 7462 (2001) George W. Bush -- Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America (2002) Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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