Name/Title
Mission and menace :four centuries of American religious zeal /Robert Jewett, Ole Wangerin.Description
Shaping zealous trajectories -- Colonial beginnings : the millennial city set upon a hill -- God's new Israel : the theocratic experiment and its deflation -- The great awakening and the prelude to the American Revolution -- The post-millennial republic as the new order of the ages -- The second great awakening, manifest destiny, reform, and the pre-millennial reaction -- Millennial crises and the rise of fundamentalism -- The civil war as a religious conflict between zeal and realism -- Reconstruction, racial conflict, and urban revivalism -- Colonialism and the gilded age in mainline religion -- New diversity : emerging fundamentalism and the world's parliament of religion -- Progressivism, millennial crusades and the crisis of fundamentalism -- Acculturation and the decline of mainline churches -- The menace of triumphant civil religion -- The great depression, religious displacement, and the Second World War -- Cold War religion : the celebration of "one nation under God" -- The Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam controversy, and the conservative backlash -- The political distortion of religion : triumphant fundamentalism, impeachment, and the war against terrorism.
xvi, 365 p. :ill., ports. /24 cm.Book Details
Author
Jewett, Robert.Date Published
2008Call No.
BR515 .J49 2008ISBN
9780800662837 (hardcover : alk. paper), 9780800662844 (pbk. : alk. paper)LCCN
2007044769Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-357) and index.