Formed From This Soil – An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America

Acknowledgments x
<p>Prelude for Instructors: A Decentered Narrative of American Religious History xii</p>
<p>Beginnings: The Diversity of Religion in America 1</p>
<p>Part I New Worlds 11</p>
<p>1 Encounters 13</p>
<p>African Encounters 20</p>
<p>European Conquests in America 27</p>
<p>Native Encounters 39</p>
<p>New Worlds of Contact 47</p>
<p>2 Reformations 52</p>
<p>Religious Upheavals 56</p>
<p>Colonizing America 69</p>
<p>Reforming Native Religions of America and Africa 80</p>
<p>New Worlds of Reformed Authorities 85</p>
<p>3 Conflicts and Persecutions 90</p>
<p>Native Revolutions 92</p>
<p>Improvements upon the Land 103</p>
<p>Captivities 108</p>
<p>The Diversity of Religious Conflicts 117</p>
<p>4 Resistance, Revival, and Revolution 122</p>
<p>Resisting Slavery 125</p>
<p>Reviving Religious Fervor 129</p>
<p>A New Nation 137</p>
<p>The Limits of Liberty 145</p>
<p>Part II The New Nation 153</p>
<p>5 An Expanding Nation 155</p>
<p>America in the Pacific World 160</p>
<p>A New Awakening 169</p>
<p>A Nation Enslaved 176</p>
<p>Expansion 184</p>
<p>6 The Many Religious Voices 189</p>
<p>Women s Voices 193</p>
<p>Displaced Voices 199</p>
<p>Immigrant Voices 206</p>
<p>Restorationist Voices 212</p>
<p>The Diversity of Religious Voices in America 223</p>
<p>7 One Nation 231</p>
<p>Spiritual Purposes 235</p>
<p>A Nation Divided 239</p>
<p>The Nation at War 252</p>
<p>Reconstructing the Nation 254</p>
<p>Diverse Voices of the Unified Nation 260</p>
<p>8 Changing Society 267</p>
<p>New Lands 270</p>
<p>New People 279</p>
<p>New Religious Ways 294</p>
<p>America s Double Consciousness 301</p>
<p>Part III The Modern World 309</p>
<p>9 Modern Worlds 311</p>
<p>Science 313</p>
<p>Religious Responses to Modern Sciences 318</p>
<p>Migrations 329</p>
<p>Global America 342</p>
<p>10 Cold War and Civil Rights 349</p>
<p>Religion of the Nation 352</p>
<p>Clash of Classes 359</p>
<p>Confronting Racial Apartheid 368</p>
<p>Liberated People 378</p>
<p>11 A Spiritual Nation 385</p>
<p>Spiritual Immigrants 388</p>
<p>Religious Bodies 398</p>
<p>Spiritual Borderlands 405</p>
<p>Religious America 411</p>
<p>12 Crossing Borders 418</p>
<p>Rethinking America and Religion 421</p>
<p>Glossary 427</p>
<p>Index 431</p>