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American Religious History

Patrick N. Allitt · 2001

A 24-lecture course exploring religious life in America from first European contact to the late 20th century, examining why America has sustained greater religious vitality and diversity than other industrial nations, and tracing the evolution of Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and other faith traditions through major historical events and social movements.

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God & Work

What this book knows

American religion is a competitive marketplace of faiths that shaped national identity, politics, and culture from Puritans to pluralism.

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faith-and-doubt

Hope and doubt of salvation fed each other. Certainty of salvation… Conversion came in stages, of self-condemnation, despair, revived hope in God, and transforming grace.
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Christians assumed for centuries that science would enhance admiration for God's work; Darwin explained species mutation through ruthless competition, not divine planning.
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Premillennialists regarded historical events as a supernatural conflict between good and evil, eagerly supporting Zionism as a precondition for Christ's return.
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belonging

Religion provided a permissible link with a fading ethnic identity as each new immigrant wave arrived in America.
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To be Jewish meant belonging to an ethnic group and fulfilling a set of actions, as well as holding a set of beliefs. Annual festivals were linked to events in Jewish history.
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Cardinal Mundelein ordered churches to go into debt, if necessary, to make conspicuously large contributions; Mennonite pacifists who refused war service were imprisoned and mistreated.
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