American religious history
Emory University Professor Allitt delivers lectures which examine religion not only as a set of formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and styles of worship, but also as an influence on the rest of American society. Investigates the subtle but important links which have long br...
| Main Author: | Allitt, Patrick. |
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| Other Authors: | Teaching Company. |
| Format: | Cassette |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2001]
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| Physical Description: |
12 audiocassettes : analog + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 69 ; ii, 68 pages). |
| Series: |
Great courses (Audiocassette)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Major features of American religious history
- The European background
- Natives and newcomers
- The Puritans
- Colonial religious diversity
- The Great Awakening
- Religion and revolution
- The Second Great Awakening
- Oneida and the Mormons
- Catholicism
- African-American religion
- The Civil War
- pt. II. Victorian developments
- Darwin and other dilemmas
- Judaism in the nineteenth century
- Fundamentalism
- War and peace
- Twentieth-century Catholicism
- The affluent society
- The civil rights movement
- The counterculture and feminism
- Asian religions
- Church and state
- The enduring religious sensibility.