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Mission and menace : four centuries of American religious zeal
- Title
- Mission and menace : four centuries of American religious zeal / Robert Jewett ; in collaboration with Ole Wangerin.
- Author
- Jewett, Robert.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wangerin, Ole.
- Description
- xvi, 365 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- United States > Church history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-357) and index.
- Contents
- Shaping zealous trajectories -- Colonial beginnings : the millennial city set upon a hill -- God's new Israel : the theocratic experiment and its deflation -- The Great Awakening : prelude to the American Revolution -- The post-millennial republic: the "new order of the ages" -- The second Great Awakening : new denominations, reforms, and the pre-millennial reaction -- Millennial crises and the rise of fundamentalism -- The Civil War : a conflict over the Bible and millennial mission -- Reconstruction and racial violence : religion in cultural captivity -- The gilded age and millennial destiny : war, colonialism, and the social Gospel -- New diversity : emerging fundamentalism and the world's parliament of religion -- Three millennial crusades : disappointment, the Red Scare, and the crisis of fundamentalism -- Culture over Christ : acculturation and the decline of mainline churches -- The menace of triumphant civil religion -- Depression and World War : the rise of religious replacement and escapism -- Cold War religion : the celebration of one nation under God -- Zealous nationalism overwhelms prophetic realism : civil rights, Vietnam, and the conservative backlash -- The political distortion of religion : impeachment and the war against terrorism.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-4149
- ISBN
- 9780800662837 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0800662830 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780800662844 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0800662849 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007044769
- OCLC
- 156832282
- Author
- Jewett, Robert.
- Title
- Mission and menace : four centuries of American religious zeal / Robert Jewett ; in collaboration with Ole Wangerin.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-357) and index.
- Added Author
- Wangerin, Ole.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-4149