Retelling U.S. Religious History
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 1997
Book
Hardback
321 pages
978-0-520-20569-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection marks a turning point in the study of the history of American religions. In challenging the dominant paradigm, Thomas A. Tweed and his coauthors propose nothing less than a reshaping of the way that American religious history is understood, studied, and taught.
The range of these essays is extraordinary. They analyze sexual pleasure, colonization, gender, and interreligious exchange. The narrators position themselves in a number of geographical sites, including the Canadian border, the American West, and the Deep South. And they discuss a wide range of groups, from Pueblo Indians and Russian Orthodox to Japanese Buddhists and Southern Baptists.
The range of these essays is extraordinary. They analyze sexual pleasure, colonization, gender, and interreligious exchange. The narrators position themselves in a number of geographical sites, including the Canadian border, the American West, and the Deep South. And they discuss a wide range of groups, from Pueblo Indians and Russian Orthodox to Japanese Buddhists and Southern Baptists.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-20569-7 (9780520205697)
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Retelling U.S. Religious History
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Person
Thomas A. Tweed is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent (1992).
Content
Thomas A. Tweed, Introduction: Narrating U.S. Religious History
Ann Taves, Sexuality in American Religious History
Tamar Frankiel, Ritual Sites in the Narrative of American Religion
Ann Braude, Women's History Is American Religious History
Roger Finke, The Illusion of Shifting Demand: Supply-Side Interpretations of American Religious History
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Eastward Ho!: American Religion from the Perspective of the Pacific Rim
Joel W. Martin, Indians, Contact and Colonialism in the Deep South: Themes for a Postcolonial History of American Religion
William Westfall, Voices from the Attic: Crossing the Canadian Border and the Writing of American Religious History
Catherine L. Albanese, Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combination, and American Religious History
Ann Taves, Sexuality in American Religious History
Tamar Frankiel, Ritual Sites in the Narrative of American Religion
Ann Braude, Women's History Is American Religious History
Roger Finke, The Illusion of Shifting Demand: Supply-Side Interpretations of American Religious History
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Eastward Ho!: American Religion from the Perspective of the Pacific Rim
Joel W. Martin, Indians, Contact and Colonialism in the Deep South: Themes for a Postcolonial History of American Religion
William Westfall, Voices from the Attic: Crossing the Canadian Border and the Writing of American Religious History
Catherine L. Albanese, Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combination, and American Religious History