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Table of ContentsPreface for Instructors ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; I. COLONIAL SETTLEMENT TO THE 1730S ; 1. AFFIRMING DIVINE PROVIDENCE: EXPLORERS, MISSIONARIES, AND COLONIZERS COME TO AMERICA ; The Bull Sublimis Deus (1537) ; William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (1620-47) ; John Cotton, Spirituall Milk for Boston Babes in Either England (1656) ; 2. PIETY AND PRACTICE IN THE COLONIAL ERA ; John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630) ; Increase Mather, Sleeping at Sermons Is a Great and a Dangerous Evil (1682) ; 3. ANXIOUS SOULS: SEEKING ASSURANCE IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND ; Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear Children (1867) and To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678) ; Samuel Sewall, Diary (1677-1727) ; 4. CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE, GENDER AND ETHNICITY: ANTINOMIANISM AND INDIANS ; The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (1637) ; Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) ; William Penn, Letter to the Indians (1681) ; 5. CHALLENGES TO THE ESTABLISHED ORDER: BAPTISTS, QUAKERS, AND WITCH-HUNTING ; Roger Williams, Letter to the Town of Providence on the Limits of Religious Liberty (1654-55) ; William Penn, A Persuasive to Moderation to Church Dissenters, in Prudence and Conscience (1686) ; Cotton Mather, From Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) ; II. REVIVAL, REVOLUTION, AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT, 1740-1800 ; 6. DEBATING DECORUM AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: REVIVALISM AND THE GREAT AWAKENING ; Jonathan Edwards, From Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New-England (1743) ; Charles Chauncy, From Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New-England (1743) ; 7. BEYOND NEW ENGLAND: SOUTHERN ANGLICANISM, METHODIST PERFECTION ; Charles Woodmason, I Cor. 14 v. 40 Let All Things Be Done Decently & in Order (1770) ; John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1777) ; 8. PIETY, CHRISTIAN LOVE, AND RESISTANCE TO SLAVERY ; Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773), On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (1770), and Thoughts on the Works of Providence (1773) ; John Woolman, From The Journal of John Woolman and On Silent Worship ; 9. BRINGING OUTSIDERS IN: MORE ENCOUNTERS WITH INDIANS, EARLY AMERICAN JEWS ; David Brainerd, From Journal (1745) ; The Petition of the Philadelphia Synagogue to Council of Censors of Pennsylvania (1783) ; 10. ENLIGHTENMENT VIEWS OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND LIBERTY ; Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779) ; James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785) ; Hannah Adams, From An Alphabetical Compendium of the Various Sects Which Have Appeared in the World from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Present Day (1784) ; III. FROM NEW REPUBLIC TO DIVIDED NATION, 1800-65 ; 11. NEW THEOLOGIES ABSORB OLD ORTHODOXIES: MORMONISM, TRANSCENDENTALISM, COMMUNITARIANISM ; Joseph Smith, The Articles of Faith (1842) and Revelation (1835) ; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harvard Divinity School Address (1838) ; 12. DIVERSE MODES OF RELIGIOUS CONVERSION ; Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, Letters (1805) ; Charles Grandison Finney, From Memoirs (1876) ; Bishop Innocent Veniaminov, Instructions to the Priest-Monk Theophan (1853) ; 13. SLAVE RELIGION AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESISTANCE ; Jarena Lee, From The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836) ; Frederick Douglass, From Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (1845) ; 14. EVANGELICALISM, ABOLITIONISM, AND PRO-SLAVERY CHRISTIANITY ; Angelina Emily Grimke, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) ; Catharine E. Beecher, Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1837) ; George D. Armstrong, From The Christian Doctrine of Slavery (1857) ; 15. EUROPEANS ATTEMPT TO DEFINE RELIGION IN AMERICA ; Alexis de Tocqueville, From Democracy in America (1835) ; Phillip Schaff, From America (1855) ; IV. SCIENCE, IMMIGRATION, AND CONSUMER CAPITALISM, 1865-1920 ; 16. DARWINISM, THE SOCIAL GOSPEL, AND THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH ; James Woodrow, Evolution (1884) ; Russell Herman Conwell, From Acres of Diamonds (1890) ; Walter Rauschenbusch, From A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917) ; 17. RESHAPING AGED CREED: REFORM JUDAISM, NEW THOUGHT, BLACK PROTEST ; Pittsburgh Platform (1885) ; Ralph Waldo Trine, From In Tune with the Infinite (1897) ; W. E. B. Du Bois, The Sorrow Songs (1903), Credo (1904), and A Litany of Atlanta (1906) ; 18. NARRATIVES OF AMERICANIZATION AND RESISTANCE ; Black Elk, From Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932) ; Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912) ; 19. CONFLICTS OF IMMIGRATION AND IMMIGRANTS ; Josiah Strong, From Our Country (1886) ; Alexis Toth, Meeting with Archbishop John Ireland (1889) ; Mabel Potter Daggett, The Heathen Invasion of America (1912) ; 20. TURNING OUTWARD: THE EARLY COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGION ; James Freeman Clarke, The Ten Religions and Christianity (1891) ; Swami Vivekananda, Hinduism as a Religion and Farewell (1893) ; William James, From The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) ; V. FROM FUNDAMENTALISM TO CIVIL RIGHTS, 1920-65 ; 21. FUNDAMENTALISM, LIBERALISM, AND NEO-ORTHODOXY ; Harry Emerson Fosdick, Shall the Fundamentalists Win? (1922) ; Reinhold Niebuhr, From The Irony of American History (1952) ; 22. JEWISH OBSERVANCE AND CATHOLIC SACRAMENTALISM ; Abraham Joshua Heschel, From God in Search of Man (1955) ; Thomas Merton, From New Seeds of Contemplation (1961) ; 23. ALIENATION, DISSIDENCE, AND REBELLION AGAINST TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ; Dorothy Day, From The Long Loneliness (1952) ; Jack Kerouac, From Dharma Bums (1958) ; 24. BLACK ENCOUNTERS WITH WORLD RELIGIONS AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST RACISM ; Howard Thurman, What We May Learn from India (1936) and Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman Meet with Mahatma Gandhi (1936) ; Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail (1963) ; Malcolm X, Letters from Abroad (1964) ; 25. THE "AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE" AND ITS CRITICS ; Will Herberg, From Protestant-Catholic-Jew (1955) ; VI. MULTIPLICITY, PLURALISM, AND CONFLICT AFTER 1965 ; 26. THE 1960S AND BEYOND: THEOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CRISES ; Mary Daly, From Beyond God the Father (1973) ; Cornel West, Christian Theological Mediocrity (1984) ; Stanley Hauerwas, Gay Friendship: A Thought Experiment in Catholic Moral Theology (1998) ; 27. RITUAL, PRACTICE, AND SPIRITUAL POETRY IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY ; Avery Dulles, S.J., The Ways We Worship (1998) ; Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, From Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (1987) ; Joy Harjo, Eagle Poem (1990) ; Lucille Clifton, spring song (1987), the light that came to lucille clifton (1980), and testament (1980) ; 28. RELIGIOUS OUTINGS: MULTIPLE SPIRITUAL PERSONALITIES IN A POST-SIXTIES AMERICA ; Mel White, From Stranger at the Gate (1994) ; 29. RELIGION AND CONFLICT AFTER 9/11 ; Franklin Graham, From The Name (2002) ; Letter to Franklin Graham from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (2002) ; Richard Rodriguez, Danger and Grace-Sept. 11 and America's Religious Moment ; 30. PRIVATIZATION, SECULARIZATION, AND RELIGIOUS FLOURISHING: THE ENDURING CHALLENGES OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN AMERICA ; Robert N. Bellah, From Habits of the Heart (1985) ; U.S. Department of Education, Religious Expression in Public Schools (1995) ; Jeffrey L. Stout, Democracy and Tradition (2004)
