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Religion and the making of Nat Turner's Virginia
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Randolph Ferguson Scully |
Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia provides a new interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing the complex, biracial history of t… |
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The myth of American religious freedom
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David Sehat |
In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American hi… |
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The founding fathers and the debate over religion in revolutionary America
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Matthew L. Harris |
Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Historians Matthew Harris and Thomas Kidd offer an author… |
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Jonathan Edwards
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George M. Marsden |
"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous G… |
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The shooting salvationist
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David R. Stokes |
The Shooting Salvationist chronicles what may be the most famous story you have never heard. In the 1920's, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against vice and conspiracies he saw everywhere to a co… |
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A peculiar people
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J. Spencer Fluhman |
Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thous… |
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LDS in the USA
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Lee Trepanier |
Presents an introduction to Mormonism, discussing its history, basic principles, the influence it has had on American culture, and the role of Mormon politicians in the current campaign for the Ameri… |
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George Whitefield
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Thomas S. Kidd |
In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd's fascinating new biography explores the extraordinary career of the most influen… |
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Our Great Big American God
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Matthew Paul Turner |
Americans love God. We stamp God on our money, our bumper stickers, and our bodies. With a church on nearly every street, it's hard to deny our country's deep connection with the divine. Yet culture … |
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Damned nation
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Kathryn Gin Lum |
Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and -- fixed deeply in the colle… |
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Christian Reconstruction
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Michael J. McVicar |
This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-2001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's pers… |
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The future of religion in American politics
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Dunn, Charles W. |
"The Future of Religion in American Politics presents thoughtful, wide-ranging essays by twelve eminent public intellectuals and scholars, offering rich and stimulating views on one of the most divis… |
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The Color of Compromise
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Jemar Tisby |
This book is an acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically -- up to the present day -- worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in… |
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A political history of the Bible in America
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Paul D. Hanson |
This substantial work explores the interplay of religion and politics throughout the history of the United States. Paul D. Hanson traces American history back to colonial times, paying close attentio… |
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Empire, religion and revolution in early Virginia, 1607-1786
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James B. Bell |
"This book is a chronicle of England's contrasting imperial civil and ecclesiastical policies for its first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia. The settlement of Virginia contrasted sharply from Engl… |
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Brooklyn's Plymouth Church in the Civil War era
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Francis K. Decker |
"Discover the fascinating story of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn and its unique place in Civil War history"--
"The history of the Plymouth Church of Brooklyn before, during, and after the Civil War"-- |
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America's God
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Mark A. Noll |
"Mark A. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois."--BOOK JACKET. |
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The first liberty
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William Lee Miller |
Explores the American concept of religious liberty: how it originated, its enactment into law, and its continuing consequences. |
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The Lion and the Lamb
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William M. Shea |
One of the most intriguing questions in contemporary American Christianity is whether the recent warming of relations between Catholics and conservative evangelicals promises a thaw in the ice age th… |
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Hell Without Fire
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Love Henry, Jr. Whelchel |
"Using the motif of Christian conversion as a unifying theme, Whelchel provides a basic introduction to the history and diversity of Christian religion among enslaved Africans and black Americans. Co… |
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