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

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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