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  The Life You Save May Be Your Own : An American Pilgrimage

  by Paul Elie

  The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power... (more)
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  The Wordy Shipmates

  by Sarah Vowell

  The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times –bestselling author Sarah Vowell’s exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill”—a shining example, a “city that cannot be hid.” To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means— and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who... (more)
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  Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 (Modern American Religion)

  by Martin E. Marty

  In this third volume of his acclaimed chronicle of faith in twentieth-century America, Martin E. Marty presents the first authoritative account of American religious culture from the entry of the United States into World War II through the Eisenhower years. Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 is the first book to systematically address religion and the roles it played in shaping the social and political life of... (more)
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  Friendship Cake: A Novel

  by J. Lynne Hinton

  When five women from the Hope Springs Community Church in North Carolina form a committee to create a church cookbook, they embark on a project much more meaningful than they could have ever imagined. As novice pastor Charlotte Stewart, no-nonsense Margaret Peele, maverick Louise Fisher, steadfast Jessie Jenkins, and busybody Beatrice Newgarden meet to share recipes, they begin to open their lives and hearts as... (more)
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  Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

  by John Gneisenau Neihardt, Christopher Sergel, John G. Neihardt, Craig Sodaro, Black Elk

  Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening... (more)
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  Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

  by Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan

  . . holds up a mirror to American values, makes us examine ourselves, and dares us to question where our society is going" (George Keller, Baltimore Sun).
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  Brigham Young: AMERICAN MOSES

  by Leonard J. Arrington

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  So Help Me God: Presidential Faith, Pulpit Politics, and the First Great Battle to Save America's Soul

  by F. Forrester Church

  Today’s dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a powerful retelling of the birth of the American body politic, religious historian Forrest Church describes our first great culture war—a tumultuous yet nearly forgotten conflict that raged from George Washington’s presidency to James Monroe’s. On one side of the battle, the... (more)
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  Modern American Religion, Volume 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919 (Modern American Religion)

  by Martin E. Marty

  Martin E. Marty argues that religion in twentieth-century America was essentially shaped by its encounter with modernity. In this first volume, he records and explores the diverse ways in which American religion embraced, rejected, or cautiously accepted the modern world. "Marty writes with the highest standards of scholarship and with his customary stylistic grace. No series of books is likely to tell us as... (more)
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  Trabelin' On

  by Mechal Sobel

  Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African... (more)
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  Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns

  by Cheryl L. Reed

  When reporter Cheryl Reed set out to examine the lives of nuns, she was determined to find out what was behind the enigmatic image reinforced by Hollywood clich&eacutes, misguided speculation, and her Catholic friends' childhood stories of unyielding figures in black. For Unveiled , she interviewed more than 300 nuns of diverse beliefs, lifestyles, and orders. She lived and prayed with them, witnessed... (more)
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  The Bible against slavery, or, An inquiry into the genius of the Mosaic system, and the teachings of the Old Testament on the subject of human rights

  by Theodore Dwight Weld

  This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
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  Religious Revolutionaries: The Rebels Who Reshaped American Religion

  by Robert C. Fuller

  In this clever and entertaining look at the United States and religious freedom, Robert C. Fuller introduces us to religious revolutionaries who, in very unique ways, shaped American religious tradition and fought to establish new forms of spirituality. Chronological in scope, Religious Revolutionaries takes us from Puritanism and Calvinism in America's colonial period to present-day belief systems. We meet... (more)
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  Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America

  by Edwin S. Gaustad

  This well-written, solidly researched biography should be read by all well-informed Americans with a serious interest in the origins of our traditions of religious liberty and the separation of church and state. Gaustad (retired professor of history, University of California at Riverside and the author of several works, including A Religious History of America , HarperCollins, 1966; 1990. rev. ed.) makes... (more)
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  Fields of Peace: A Pennsylvania German Album

  Fields of Peace unites two remarkable talents in masterful volume. The text, written by the late Millen Brand, illuminates the history of the Pennsylvania German sects who were united in their rejection of infant baptism. He provides a sympathetic portrait of these fascinating people (often erroneously called "Pennsylvania Dutch") who emigrated from Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, found a home in the... (more)
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  Affect And Power: Essays On Sex, Slavery, Race, And Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan

  In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan published his groundbreaking work White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 and opened up new avenues for thinking about sex, slavery, race, and religion in American culture. Over the course of a forty-year career at the University of California and the University of Mississippi, he continued to write about these issues and to train others to think in... (more)
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  Howard Thurman: The Mystic as Prophet

  by Luther E. Smith

  This book is meant to stimulate scholarship on Thurman's significance as a major religious figure. It is valuable for interpreting Thurman's thoughts. Any reader or student of Howard Thurman, or anyone curious to know Thurman, will want this book.
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  RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION: Religion and the Populist Revolution

  by Joe Creech

  "Righteous Indignation" uncovers what motivated conservative, mostly middle-class southern farmers to revolt against the Democratic Party by embracing the radical, even revolutionary biracial politics of the People's Party in the 1890s. While other historians of Populism have looked to economics, changing markets, or various ideals to explain this phenomenon, in "Righteous Indignation", Joe Creech posits... (more)
• Anne Hutchinson, Troubler of the Puritan ZionFrancis J. Bremer

  

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  Anne Hutchinson, Troubler of the Puritan Zion

  by Francis J. Bremer

  This collection of essays offers a unique opportunity to delve into the many aspects of the Anne Hutchinson controversy and of early New England, while also providing insight into the role and status of women in early America. The controversy is examined from the perspectives of psychology, law, religion, social defiance, cultural changes and conflict, politics, and feminism. The great diversity of viewpoints... (more)
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  The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America

  by William M. Shea

  One of the most intriguing questions in contemporary American Christianity is whether the recent warming of relations between Catholics and conservative evangelicals promises a thaw in the ice age that has lasted since the sixteenth century. American evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics have hated and suspected one another since colonial times. In the twentieth century, however, each community has... (more)