ABSTRACT

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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INTRODUCTION

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PART I: INDIGENOUS AMERICAN RELIGIONS, PREHISTORY-PRESENT

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Northern Hunting Religions

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Southern Agricultural Religions

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Ancient Hawaiian Religion

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PART II: EUROPEAN CHRISTIANITY COLONIZES AMERICA, 1500-1867

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Spanish Catholic Colonization

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French Catholicism in North America

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Russian Orthodoxy Colonizes America

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PART III: COLONIAL FORMATIONS, 1607-1800

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Puritanism in New England

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Colonial Presbyterianism

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The Rise and Fall of Quaker Regions

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The Rise of the Baptists

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The Development of American Methodism

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Lutheran and Reformed Groups

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German Sectarians in British America

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Catholicism and Judaism in the Colonies

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The Great Awakening

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PART IV: PROTESTANT EXPANSION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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The Second Great Awakening

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The Baptists and Methodists Surge

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Missionary Outreach

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Unitarians and Universalists

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American Metaphysical Movements

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Communitarian Aspirations

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Mormonism

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African-American Churches

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PART V: WORLD RELIGIONS AND GROWING PLURALISM, 18S(}-PRESENT

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The Growth of American Catholicism

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The Development of American Judaism

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Eastern Orthodoxy in America

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Islam in America

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Hinduism and Sikhism in America

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Buddhism in America

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PART VI: RELIGIONS OF THE MODERN AGE

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Fundamentalist Protestantism

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Holiness and Pentecostalism

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Urban African-American Religions

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Unificationism, Scientology, and Baha'i

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EPILOGUE: AMERICAN RELIGIOUS REGIONS

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CHRONOLOGY

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FURTHER READING

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INDEX

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS