New World Faiths: Religion in Colonial AmericaMany people believe that the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion. However, by the 1730s Catholics, Jews, and Africans had joined Native Americans, Puritans, and numerous other Protestants in the colonies. Jon Butler launches his narrative with a description of the state of religious affairs in both the Old and New Worlds. He explores the failure of John Winthrop's goal to achieve Puritan perfection, the controversy over Anne Hutchinson's tenacious faith, the evangelizing stamina of ex-slave and Methodist preacher Absalom Jones, and the spiritual resilience of the Catawba Indians. The meeting of these diverse groups and their varied use of music, dance, and ritual produced an unprecedented evolution of religious practice, including the birth of revivals. And through their daily interactions, these Americans created a living foundation for the First Amendment. After Independence their active diversity of faiths led Americans to the groundbreaking idea that government should abandon the use of law to support any religious group and should instead guarantee free exercise of religion for everyone. |
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... congregation that limited its membership to men and women who had had similar experiences, then left that congregation to join an evangelical Baptist church that limited the rite of baptism to believing or converted adults. Cole ...
... congregation that limited its membership to men and women who had had similar experiences, then left that congregation to join an evangelical Baptist church that limited the rite of baptism to believing or converted adults. Cole ...
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... Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.” Unfortunately for Thwackum, reality was—and long would be—far more complex in Britain ...
... Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.” Unfortunately for Thwackum, reality was—and long would be—far more complex in Britain ...
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... synagogues. Many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century church authorities complained that the buildings outnumbered their priests, ministers, and rabbis and that they could not staff all the possible pulpits. Public Christian worship also ...
... synagogues. Many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century church authorities complained that the buildings outnumbered their priests, ministers, and rabbis and that they could not staff all the possible pulpits. Public Christian worship also ...
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Contents
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Religion and Missions in New Spain and New France | 21 |
Religion in Englands First Colonies | 47 |
The Flowering of Religious Diversity | 71 |
African and American Indian Religion | 91 |
Reviving Colonial Religion | 110 |
Religion and the American Revolution | 132 |
CHRONOLOGY | 152 |
FURTHER READING | 159 |
INDEX | 167 |
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