America: Religions and Religion

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
 

Native American Traditions

Beck, Peggy V., Walters, Anna Lee, and Francisco, Nia. The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life. Redesigned
ed. Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community College Press, 1995.

Brown, Joseph Epes. The Sacred Pipe. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1971.

Courlander, Harold. The Fourth World of the Hopis. New York: Crown, 1971.

Deloria, Ella Cara. Waterlilly. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

Deloria, Vine, Jr. God is Red: A Native View of Religion. 2d ed. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1992.

DeMallie, Raymond J., ed. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 1984.

_____, and Parks, Douglas R., eds. Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition and Innovation. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1987.

Geertz, Armin W. The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1994.

Gill, Sam D. Native American Religions: An Introduction. The Religious Life of Man Series. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1982.

_____. Native American Traditions: Sources and Interpretations. The Religious Life of Man Series. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth, 1983.

Holler, Clyde. Black Elk's Religion: The Sun Dance and Lakota Catholicism. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
1995.

Loftin, John D. Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1991.

Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.

Nequatewa, Edmund. Truth of a Hopi. 1936. Reprint. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1967.

Powers, William K. Oglala Religion. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Living Press, 1977.

Tedlock, Dennis, and Tedlock, Barbara, eds. Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy. New
York: Liveright, 1975.

Treat, James, ed. Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada. New
York: Routledge, 1996.

Vecsey, Christopher. Imagining Ourselves Richly: Mythic Narratives of North American Indians. New York: Crossroad,
1988.

Voth, H. R. The Traditions of the Hopi. 1905. Reprint. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1973.
 

Jewish Religion and Peoplehood

Blau, Joseph L. Judaism in America: From Curiosity to Third Faith. Chicago History of American Religion. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Diner, Hasia R. A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880. The Jewish People in America. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Eisen, Arnold M. The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology. The Modern Jewish Experience.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

Faber, Eli. A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820. The Jewish People in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1992.

Feingold, Henry L. A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945. The Jewish People in America. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Frankiel, Tamar. The Voice of Sarah: Feminine Spirituality and Traditional Judaism. San Francisco: Harper, 1990.

Gaster, Theodor H. Customes and Folkways of Jewish Life. New York: William Sloan Associates Publishers, 1955.

_____. Festivals of the Jewish Year. New York: William Sloan Associates Publishers, 1953.

Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. The Chicago History of American Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Heilman, Samuel C. Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1995.

Helmreich, William B. The World of Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry. New York: Free Press, 1982.

Heschel, Abraham J. The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Young, 1951.

Meyer, Michael A. Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988.

Neusner, Jacob. The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism. Belmont, CA: Dickenson, 1970.

Sapiro, Edward S. A Time for Healing: American Jewry since World War II. The Hewish People in America. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Sorin, Gerald. A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920. The Jewish People in America. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Trepp, Leo. Judaism: Development and Life. 2d ed. Belmont, CA: Dickenson, 1974.

Wertheimer, Jack. A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

_____, ed. The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
 

Roman Catholicism

Chinnici, Joseph P. Living Stones: The History and Structure of Catholic Spiritual Life in the United States. Makers of the
catholic Community: the Bicentennial History of the Catholic Church in America. New York: Macmillan, 1989.

Cross, Robert D. The Emergence of Liberal Catholicism in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.

Cunningham, Lawrence S. the Cathlic Experience: Space, Time, Silence, Prayer, Sacraments, Story, Persons, Catholicity,
Community, and Expectations. New York: Crossroads, 1987.

Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1985.

_____. Catholic revivalism: The American Experience, 1830-1900. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978.

_____. The Immigrant Church. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

_____, and Deck, Allan Figueroa, eds. Hispanic Catholic Culture in the U.S.: Issues and Concerns. The Notre Dame
History of Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

Ellis, John Tracy. American Catholicism. The Chicago History of American Civilization. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1969.

Ferraro, Thomas J., ed. Catholic Lives/Contemporary America. (Special Issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly 93, no. 3.)
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

Greeley, Andrew M. The Catholic Myth: The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics. New York: Charles Scribner's,
1990.

McBrien, Richard P. Catholicism: Rev. ed. San Francisco: Harper, 1994.

McGreevy, John T. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North.
Historical Studies of Urban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Meconis, Charles A. With Clumsy Grace: The American Catholic Left, 1961-1975. New York: Seabury, Continuum Book,
1979.

Orsi, Robert Anthony. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Yaven:
Yale University Press, 1985.

_____. Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1996.

Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M, and Díaz-Stevens, Ana María, eds. An Enduring Flame: Studies on Latino Popular
Religiosity. Program for the Analysis of Religion among Latinos. PARAL Studies Series. New York: Bildner Center for Western
Hemisphere Studies, City University of New York, 1994.

Taves, Ann. The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. Notre Dame, IN:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.

Vecsey, Christopher. On the Padres' Trail. American Indian Catholics, 1. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame
Press, 1997.

_____. The Paths of Cateri's Kin. American Catholics, 2. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

Weaver, Mary Jo. Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today. Boston: Beacon Press,
1993.

_____, and Appleby, R. Scott, eds. Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1995.
 

American Protestant Origins and the Liberal Tradition

Bainton, Roland H. The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 1952.

Balmer, Randall. Grant Us Courage: Travels along the Mainline of American Protestantism. New York: Oxford University
Press,1996.

_____, and Fitzmier, John R. The Presbyterians. Denominations in America, v. 5. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1988.

Bozeman, Theodore Dwight. To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1988.

Hudson, Winthrop S. American Protestantism. The Chicago History of American Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1961.

Hutchison, William R. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism. 1976. Reprint. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1982.

_____. The Transcendentalist Ministers: Church Reform in the New England Renaissance. 1959. Reprint. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1965.

_____, ed. Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960. Cambridge Studies in
Religion and American Public Life. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Juster, Susan, and MacFarlane, Lisa, eds. A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American
Protestantism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Marty, Martin E. Protestantism. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Image Books, 1974.

_____. Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America. New York: Dial Press, 1970.

Morgan, Edmund S. Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea. New York: New York University Press, 1963.

Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand Rapids, MI: William b. Eerdmans Publishing,
1992.

Pointer, Richard W. Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious
Diversity. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Porterfield, Amanda. Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism. Religion in America
Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Roberts, Jon H. Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859-1900.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Von Rohr, John. The Shaping of American Congregationalism, 1620-1957. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1992.

White, Ronald C., Jr., and Hopkins, C. Howard. The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing America.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976.

Woolverton, John Frederick. Colonial Anglicanism in North America. Detroit: Wayne State Univeristy Press, 1984.

Wright, Conrad. The Beginnings of Unitarianism in America. 1955. Reprint. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1976.
 

The Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind

Arrington, Leonard J., and Bitton, Davis. The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1979.

Brewer, Priscilla J. Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1986.

Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge
University Press, 1994.

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
Societies in the United States. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

Cornwall, Marie, Heaton, Tim B., and Young, Lawrence A., eds. Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science
Perspectives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Doan, Ruth Alden. The Miller Heresy, Millennialism, and Amencan Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1990.

Foster, Lawrence. Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1981.

Gaustad, Edwin Scott, ed. The Rise of Adventism. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Gottschalk, Stephen. The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1973.

Holloway, Mark. Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880. Rev. ed. New York: Dover Publications,
1966.

Mauss, Armand L. The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1994.

Numbers, Ronald L., and Butler, Jonathan M., eds. The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth
Century. 2nd ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Peel, Robert. Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition: Principle, Practice, and Challenge.
Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions. New York: Crossroad, 1989.

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 United Society of Believers. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1992.

Tabor, James D., and Gallagher, Eugene V. Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Troeltsch, Ernst. The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. 1911. 2 vols. Translated by Olive Wyon. Reprint. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Weber, Max. The Sociology of Religion. 1922. Translated from the 4th ed., rev. (1956) by Ephraim Fischoff. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1963.
 

African American Religions

Austin, Allan D. African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. New York:
Routledge, 1997.

Baer, Hans A., and Singer, Merrill. African-American Religion in the Twentieth Century: Varieties of Protest and
Accommodation. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Frazier, E. Franklin.The Negro Church in America. New York: Schocken Books, 1964.

Fulop, Timothy E., and Raboteau, Albert J., eds. African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture.
New York: Routledge, 1997.

Gardell, Mattias. In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. C. Eric Lincoln Series on
the Black Experience. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

Jacobs, Claude F., and Kaslow, Andrew J. The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans: Origins, Beliefs, and Rituals of an
African-American Religion. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Johnson, Paul E., ed. African-American Christianity: Essays in History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Levine, Lawrence W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Lincoln, C. Eric, and Mamiya, Lawrence H. The Black Church in the African American Experience. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1990.

Long, Charles H. Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion. Philadelphia: Fortress Press,
1986.

Marsh, Clifton E. From Black Muslims to Muslims: The Transition from Separatism to Islam, 1930 -- 1980. Metuchen, NJ:
Scarecrow Press, 1984.

Murphy, Joseph M. Santeria. An African Religion in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1988.

Pitts, Walter F., Jr. 0 Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora. Religion in America Series. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1993.

Raboteau, Albert J. A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

_____. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Ray, Benjamin C. African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.

Sanders, Cheryl J. Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture.
Religion in America Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. New York: Random House,
1983.

Watts, Jill. God, Harlem U.S.A.; The Father Divine Story. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Wilmore, Gayraud S. Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of Afro-American
People. 2d ed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1983.
 

Nineteenth Century New Religions

Arrington, Leonard J., and Bitton, Davis. The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1979.

Brewer, Priscilla J. Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1986.

Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644 -- 1844. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge
University Press, 1994.

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
Societies in the United States. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

Cornwall, Marie, Heaton, Tim B., and Young, Lawrence A., eds. Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science
Perspectives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

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, 1860 -- 1914. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1990.

Foster, Lawrence. Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1981.

Gaustad, Edwin Scott, ed. The Rise of Adventism,.New York: Harper R Row, 1974.

Gottschalk, Stephen. The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1973.

Holloway, Mark. Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America, 1680 -- 1880. Rev. ed. New York: Dover
Publications, 1966.

Mauss, Armand L. The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1994.

Numbers, Ronald L., and Butler, Jonathan M., eds. The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth
Century. 2nd ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Peel, Robert. Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition: Principle, Practice, and Challenge.
Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions. New York: Crossroad, 1989.

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 United Society of Believers. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1992.

Tabor, James D., and Gallagher, Eugene V. Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Troeltsch, Ernst. The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. 1911. 2 vols. Translated by Olive Wyon. Reprint. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Weber, Max. The Sociology of Religion. 1922. Translated from the 4th ed., rev. (1956) by Ephraim Fischoff. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1963.

                                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
University Press, 1993.
 

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 Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the
United States. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
 

Belief and Practice in Metaphysics

Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today.
Rev. ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Albanese, Catherine L. Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion and the New America. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1977.

Bednarowski, Mary Farrell. New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America. Religion in North America.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Braden, Charles S. Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought. Dallas: Southern Methodist University
Press, 1963.

Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Boston: Beacon Press,
1989.

Campbell, Bruce E. Ancient Wisdom Revived: A History of the Theosophical Movement. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1980.

Carroll, Bret E. Spiritualism in Antebellum America. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1997.

Ellwood, Robert S., Jr. Alternative Altars: Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America. Chicago History of
American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

_____. Theosophy: A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages. Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing, 1986.

_____, and Partin, Harry B. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1988.

Fuller, Robert C. Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

George, Carol V. R. God's Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Popover of Positive Thinking. Religion in America
Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Godbeer, Richard. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.

Godwin, Joscelyn. The Theosophical Enlightenment. SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Albany: State University of
New York Press, 1994.

Judah, J. Stillson. The History and Philosophy of the Metaphysical Movements in America. Philadelphia: Westminster
Press, 1967.

Kerr, Howard, and Crow, Charles L., eds. The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1983.

Leventhal, Herbert. In the Shadow of the Enlightenment: Occultism and Renaissance Science in Eighteenth-Century
America. New York: New York University Press, 1976.

Moore, R. Laurence. In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1977.

Parker, Gail Thain. Mind Cure in New England: From the Civil War to World War I. Hanover, NH: University Press of
New England, 1973.

Quinn, D. Michael. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987.

Shumaker, Wayne. The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1972.
 

Eastern Religions

Bespuda, Anastasia. Guide to Orthodox America. Tuckahoe, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1965.

Ellwood, Robert S., Jr. The Eagle and the Rising Sun: Americans and the New Religions of Japan. Philadelphia:
Westminster Press, 1974.

_____, and Partin, Harry B. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1988,

Ferraby, John. All Things Made New: A Comprehensive Outline of the Baha'i Faith. Rev. ed. London: Baha'i Publishing
Trust, 1975.

Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America. Boulder, CO: Shambhala,
1981.

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, and Lummis, Adair T. Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1987.

_____, and Smith, Jane Idleman. Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 1993.

_____, eds. Muslim Communities in North America. SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies. Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1994.

Hopkins, Thomas J. The Hindu Religious Tradition. The Religious Life of Man Series. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1971.

Jackson, Carl T. The Oriental Religions and American Thought: Nineteenth-Century Explorations. Contributions in
American Studies, No. 55. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

_____. Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States. Religion in North America. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1994.

Kashima, Tetsuden. Buddhism in America: The Social Organization of an Ethnic Religious Institution. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1977.

Layman, Emma McCloy. Buddhism in America. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976.

Martin, Richard C. Islam: A Cultural Perspective. Prentice-Hall Series in World Religions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1982.

Neusner, Jacob, ed. World Religions in America: An Introduction. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994.

Prebish, Charles S. American Buddhism. North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press, 1979.

Robinson, Richard H., and Johnson, Willard L. The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction. 3d ed. The Religious
Life of Man Series. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1982.

Saloutos, Theodore. The Greeks in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Seager, Richard Hughes. The World's Parliament of Religions: The East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893. Religion in
North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Stockman, Robert H. The Baha'i Faith in America: Origins, 1892 -- 1900. Wilmette, IL: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1985.

Tweed, Thomas A. The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844 -- 1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent.
Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin Books, 1976.

Williams, Raymond Brady. Religions of Immigrants from India and Pakistan: New Threads in the American Tapestry.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
 

Appalachian Regional Religion

Abell, Troy D. Better Felt Than Said: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in Southern Appalachia. Waco, TX: Markham
Press, 1982.

Burton, Thomas G. Serpent-Handling Believers. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Campbell, John C. The Southern Highlander and His Homeland. 1921. Reprint. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,
1969.

Crissman, James K. Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and Practices. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1994.

Cunningham, Rodger. Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
1987.

Dickinson, Eleanor, and Benziger, Barbara. Revival! New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Dorgan, Howard. The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

_____. Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations. Knoxville: University of
Tennessee Press, 1987.

_____. In the Hands of a Happy God: The "No-Hellers" of Central Appalachia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
1997.

_____. The Old Regular Baptists of Central Appalachia: Brothers and Sisters in Hope. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1989.

Gillespie, Paul F., ed. Foxfire 7. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1982.

Hooker, Elizabeth R. Religion in the Highlands. New York: Home Missions Council, 1933.

Kimbrough, David L. Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1995.

McCauley, Deborah Vansau. Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Miles, Emma Bell. The Spirit of the Mountains. 1905. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975.

Montell, William Lynwood. Ghosts along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills. Knoxville: University of
Tennessee Press, 1975.

Peacock, James L., and Tyson, Ruel W., Jr. Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience among the Primitive
Baptists of the Blue Ridge. Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Photiadis, John D., ed. Religion in Appalachia: Theological, Social, and Psychological Dimensions and Correlates.
Morgantown: West Virginia University, Center for Extension and Continuing Education, 1978.

Titon, Jeff Todd. Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1988.

Weller, Jack E. Yesterday's People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965.

Wigginton, Eliot, ed. The Foxfire Book. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972.

_____. Foxfire 2. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1973.
 

Fundamentalism and the New Age

Albanese, Catherine L. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Chicago History of
American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Alexander, Bobby C. Televangelism Reconsidered: Ritual in the Search for Human Community. American Academy of
Religion Studies in Religion, No. 68. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.

Ammerman, Nancy Tatom. Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 1987.

Balmer, Randall. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America. 2d ed. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Bednarowski, Mary Farrell. New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America. Religion in North America.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts. Fundamentalism and Gender: 1875 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1993.

Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Studies in Cultural History.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1992.

Brown, Michael F. The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1997.

Capps, Walter H. The New Religious Right: Piety, Patriotism, and Politics. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
1994.

Ferguson, Marilyn. The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s. Los Angeles: J. P.
Tarcher, 1980.

Hadden, Jeffrey K., and Shupe, Anson. Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier. New York: Henry Holt,
1988.

Hanegraaf, Wouter J. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1998.

Heelas, Paul. The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacraliztion of Modernity. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 1996.

Hunter, James Davison. Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Lewis, James R., and Melton, J. Gordon, eds. Perspectives on the New Age. SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1992.

Marsden, George, ed. Evangelicalism and Modem America. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1984.

_____. Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1987.

Martin, William C. With God on Our Side: The Religious Right in America. New York: Broadway Books, 1996.

Melton, J. Gordon, with Clark, Jerome, and Kelly, Aidan A. New Age Encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990.

Morgan, David T. The New Crusades, the New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969 -- 1991.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.

Quebedeaux, Richard. The Young Evangelicals: Revolution in Orthodoxy. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Roof, Wade Clark, and McKinney, William. American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Toolan, David. Facing West from California's Shores: A Jesuit's Journey into New Age Consciousness. New York:
Crossroad, 1987.
 

Public Protestantism

Brauer, Jerald C. Images of Religion in America. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1967.

Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Davidson, James West. The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth-Century New England. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1977.

Hammond, Phillip E. The Protestant Presence in Twentieth-Century America: Religion and Political Culture. SUNY
Series in Religion, Culture, and Society. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992

Handy, Robert T. A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1984.

Hatch, Nathan O., and Noll, Mark A., eds. The Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1982.

Hutchison, William R., ed. Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900 -- 1960.
Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Johnson, James Turner, ed. The Bible in American Law, Politics, and Political Rhetoric. The Bible in American Culture.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, and Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985.

Marty, Martin E. Protestantism in the United States: Righteous Empire. 2d ed. New York: Scribner's, 1986.

McLoughlin, William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform. Chicago History of American Religion. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1978.

Mead, Sidney E. The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Moore, R. Laurence. Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press,
1994.

Niebuhr, H. Richard. The Kingdom of God in America. 1937. Reprint. New York: Harper & Row, Harper Torchbooks, 1959.

Phy, Allene Stuart, ed. The Bible and Popular Culture in America. The Bible in American Culture. Philadelphia: Fortress
Press, and Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985.

Richey, Russell E., ed. Denominationalism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1977.

Roof, Wade Clark, and McKinney, William. American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Sandeen, Ernest R., ed. The Bible and Social Reform. The Bible in American Culture. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, and Chico,
CA: Scholars Press, 1982.

Sizer, Sandra S. Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Revivalism. American Civilization
Series. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978,

Tuveson, Ernest Lee. Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1968.

Tyler, Alice Felt. Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the
Civil War. 1944. Reprint. New York: Harper & Row, Harper Torchbooks, 1962.

Weber, Timothy P. Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875 -- 1982. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Wind, James P., and Lewis, James W., eds. American Congregations. Vol. 2: New Perspectives in the Study of
Congregations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
 

Civil Religion

Albanese, Catherine L. Sons of the Fathers: The Civil Religion of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1976.

Bellah, Robert N. The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial. New York: Seabury Press, 1975.

_____, and Hammond, Phillip E. Varieties of Civil Religion. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980.

Bloch, Ruth H. Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756 -- 1800. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge
University Press, 1985.

Cherry, Conrad, ed. God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1971.

Gaustad, Edwin S. Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation. San Francisco: Harper R Row, 1987.

Gribbin, William. The Churches Militant: The War of 1812 and American Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1973.

Griffin, Keith L. Revolution and Religion: American Revolutionary War and the Reformed Clergy. New York: Paragon
House, 1994.

Hatch, Nathan O. The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Herberg, Will. Protestant -- Catholic -- Jew, Rev. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1960.

Hudson, Winthrop S. Nationalism and Religion in America: Concepts of American Identity and Mission. New York:
Harper & Row, 1970.

Jewett, Robert. The Captain America Complex: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism. Philadelphia: Westminster Press,
1973.

Mead, Sidney E. The Nation with the Soul of a Church. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

_____. The Old Religion in the Brave New World: Reflections on the Relation between Christendom and the Republic.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

Moorhead, James H. American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860 -- 1869. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1978.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise. God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism. Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press, 1988.

Richey, Russell E., and Jones, Donald G., eds. American Civil Religion. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Shaw, Peter. American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Strout, Cushing. The New Heavens and New Earth: Political Religion in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Tuveson, Ernest Lee. Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1968.

Weinberg, Albert K. Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History. 1935. Reprint. Chicago:
Quadrangle Books, 1963.

Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865 -1920. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 1980.

Wilson, John F. Public Religion in American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.

 
Many Centers Meeting

Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Billington, Ray Allen. The Protestant Crusade, 1800 -- 1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism. 1938. Reprint.
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964.

Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Religion in
North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Dinnerstein, Leonard, ed. Antisemitism in the United States. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961.

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1966.

Franchot, Jenny. Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1994.

Gaustad, Edwin Scott. A Religious History of America. Rev. [3d] ed. San Francisco: Harper R Row, 1990.

Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951.

Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860 -- 1925. 2d ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1988.

Hudson, Winthrop S., and Corrigan, John. Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American
Religious Life. 5th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Hunter, James Davison. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: Basic Books, 1991.

Lippy, Charles H., and Williams, Peter W., eds. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of
Traditions and Movements. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1988.

Marty, Martin E. Modem American Religion. Vol. 1, The Irony of It All, 1893 -- 1919. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1986.

_____. Modern American Religion. Vol. 2, The Noise of Conflict, 1919 -- 1941. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

_____. Modern American Religion. Vol. 3, Under God Indivisible, 1941 -- 1960. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1996.

_____. A Nation of Behavers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

_____. The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good. The Johanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture
on American Civilization and Government. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997,

_____. Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

_____. Religion and Republic: The American Circumstance. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Moore, R. Laurence. Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Roof, Wade Clark, and McKinney, William. American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Williams, Peter W. America's Religions: Traditions and Cultures. New York: Macmillan, 1990.

_____. Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective. Rev. ed.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

 
Compiled by Catherine L. Albanese