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Religions of the United States in practice
Title:
Religions of the United States in practice
Author:
McDannell, Colleen.
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]

©2001
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
vol. 1. Praying-individual and communal worship. The Amidah in colonial American synagogues / Dianne Ashton. Seventeenth century Puritan conversion narratives / Elizabeth Reis... The Green Corn Ceremony of the Muskogees / Joel W. Martin... -- Singing-songs of devotion, praise, and protest... African American spirituals / Paul Harvey. Ojibwe funerary hymn singing / Michael D. McNally... -- Teaching-learning how to live correctly... The visions of Plenty-coups / Joel W. Martin... John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida community, and male continence / Michael J. McClymond... -- Healing-health, happiness, and the miraculous -- Imagining-the unseen world... Possession, witchcraft, and the demonic in Puritan religious culture / Kenneth P. Minkema. Speech of Sos̀e-H-̀W ̃and the code of Handsome Lake / Matthew Dennis... African-American vision stories / Elizabeth Reis -- Persuading-witnessing, controversies, and polemics. Native American visionary experience and Christian missions / Michael D. McNally. American anti-Catholic pornography / Peter Gardella. Christian doctrine of slavery / Paul Harvey. Trance lectures in antebellum America / Anne Braude. ... vol. 2. Praying-individual and communal worship. Lucy Smith and Pentecostal worship in Chicago / Wallace Best... The daily prayer (Duʻa) of Shiʻa Ismaʻili Muslims / Tazim R. Kassam... -- Singing-songs of devotion, praise, and protest... Freedom songs and the civil rights movement / Paul Harvey. Folk music in the Catholic mass / Mark Oppenheimer. Buddhist chanting in Soka Gakkai International / Richard Hughes Seager... Teaching morality in race movies / Judith Weisenfeld... An Apache girl's initiation feast / Michael D. McNally. Taking or receiving the Buddhist precepts / Richard Hughes Seager -- Healing-health, happiness, and the miraculous. Tongues and healing at the Azusa street revival / Gastn̤ Espinosa. Navajo healing ceremonies / Amanda Porterfield... -- Imagining-the unseen world. Early Christian radio and religious nostalgia / Phyllis Goff. Martin Luther King Jr. and the making of an American myth / Craig R. Prentiss... Charismatic renewal among Latino Catholics / Manuel A. Vs̀quez. Visualizing chenrezi in American Tibetan Buddhism / Richard Hughes Seager. The rite of baptism in Haitian voodou / Elizabeth McAlister -- Persuading-witnessing, controversies, and polemics... Ordaining women rabbis / Pamela S. Nadell. Mother India's scandalous swamis / Stephen Prothero...
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ISBN:
9780691009988

9780691009995

9780691010007

9780691010014
Format :
Book