CONTENTS:
Native American Traditions
Jewish Religion and Peoplehood
Roman Catholicism
American Protestant
Origins and the Liberal Tradition
The Protestant Churches
and the Mission Mind
African-American Religion and Nationhood
Nineteenth-Century New Religions
Belief and Practice in Metaphysics
Eastern Peoples and Eastern Religions
A Case Study of Religion in Appalachia
Fundamentalism and the
New Age
Public Protestantism
Civil Religion
Many Centers Meeting
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Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology,
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Bull, Malcolm, and Lockhart, Keith. Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day
Adventism and the American Dream. San
Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.
Carden, Maren Lockwood. Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969.
Chmielewski, Wendy E., Kern, Louis J., and Klee-Hartzell, Marlyn, eds.
Women in Spiritual and Communitarian
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1993.
Cornwall, Marie, Heaton, Tim B., and Young, Lawrence A., eds. Contemporary
Mormonism: Social Science
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Doan, Ruth Alden. The Miller Heresy, Millennialism, and American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements,
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Numbers, Ronald L., and Butler, Jonathan M., eds. The Disappointed:
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Peel, Robert. Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition:
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Shipps, Jan. Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Stein, Stephen J. The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the
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Additional Readings on Selected Groups
MORMONS:
Bates, Irene. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Bitton, Davis. The Ritualizing of Mormon History, and Other Essays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Brooke, John. The Refiner's Fire: the Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844.
New York: Cambridge University Press,
1994.
Cornwall, Marie, Tim Heaton, and Lawrence Young, eds. Contemporary Mormonism:
Social Science Perspectives.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Hallwas, John and Roger Launius, eds. Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary
History of the Mormon War in Illinois.
Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995
Hanks, Maxine, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992.
Launius, Roger and Linda Thatcher, ed. Differing Visions: Dissenters
in Mormon History. Chicago: University of Illinois
Press, 1994
Hardy, Carmon. Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Hallwas, John and Roger Launius, eds. Kingdom of the Mississippi Revisited:
Navoo in Mormon History. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Laake, Deborah. Secret Ceremonies: a Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of
Marriage and Beyond. New York: W.
Morrow, 1993.
Mauss, Armand. The Angel and the Beehive: the Mormon struggle with Assimilation.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1994.
Newell, Linda. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Paul, Erich. Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, .1992.
Quinn, Michael. Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans:
a Mormon Example. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1996.
Taber, Susan. Mormon Lives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Underwood, Grant. The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1993.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS:
Numbers, Ronald. Prophetess of Health: Ellen G. White and the Origins
of Seventh-Day Adventist Health Reform.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS:
Tucker, Cynthia Grant. Healer in Harm's Way: Mary Collson, a Clergywoman
in Christian Science. Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, 1994.
SHAKERS:
Foster, Lawrence. Women, Family and Utopia: Communal experiments of
the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the
Mormons. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991.
Stein, Stephen. The Shaker Experience in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Burns, Deborah. Shaker Cities of Peace, Love, and Union: a History of
the Hancock Bishopric. Hanover, NH: University
Press of New England, 1993.
Humez, Jean. Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on
Women and Religion. Bloomington: Indiana
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ONEIDA:
Hawley, Victor. Special Love/Special Sex: An Oneida Community Diary. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
Chmielewski, Wendy, Louis Kern, and Marilyn Klee-Hartzell. Women in
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