Religious outsiders and the making of Americans /

Religious outsiders and the making of Americans /

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Author / Creator:	Moore, R. Laurence (Robert Laurence), 1940-
Imprint:	New York : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1986.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 243 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Religious pluralism. Religion. Religious pluralism. United States -- Religion. United States. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144284

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ISBN:	1423736214 9781423736219 0195051882 9780195051889 0195036638 9780195036633 9780195363999 019536399X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	In light of the curious compulsion to stress Protestant dominance in America's past, this book takes an unorthodox look at religious history in America. Rather than focusing on the usual mainstream Protestant churches--Episcopal, Congregationalist, Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran--Moore instead turns his attention to the equally important "outsiders" in the American religious experience and tests the realities of American religious pluralism against their history in America. Through separate but interrelated chapters on seven influential groups of "outsiders"--The Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists, Millennialists, 20th-century Protestant Fundamentalists, and the African-American churches--Moore shows that what was going on in mainstream churches may not have been the "normal" religious experience at all, and that many of these "outside" groups embodied values that were, in fact, quintessentially American.
Other form:	Print version: Moore, R. Laurence (Robert Laurence), 1940- Religious outsiders and the making of Americans. New York : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1986 9780195036633

Table of Contents:

How to become a people: the Mormon scenario
Managing Catholic success in a Protestant empire
American Jews as an ordinary minority
Christian Science and American popular religion
Premillennial Christian views of God's justice and American injustice
The Protestant majority as a lost generation: a look at fundamentalism
Black culture and Black churches: the quest for an autonomous identity
Civil and uncivil religions: describing religious pluralism.