Bret Carroll

The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using full color maps and illustrations, "The Routledge Historical Atlas of American Religion" examines the changing peoples and creeds that have greatly affected the course of American life. Starting with the religions of Native Americans and moving from the Puritanism of the early English settlers to the Catholicism of immigrants of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the Southern Baptism of African Americans during Reconstruction to the more contemporary phenomena of Scientology and the Unification Church, this atlas presents the expansive history and geography of religion in America in vibrant, visual detail. Also inlcludes 50 color maps.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 180mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780415921374
• ISBN-10: 0415921376
• Artikelnr.: 21505977

Autorenporträt

Bret Carroll is the author of Spiritualism in AntebellumAmerica. He is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreward Introduction Part II: European Christianity Colonizes America,
1500-1867 22 Part III: Colonial Formations, 1607-1800 30 Part IV:
Protestant Expansionism in the Nineteenth Century Part V: World Religions
and Growing Pluralism, 1850-Present Part VI: Religions of the Modern Age
Epilogue: American Religious Regions Chronology Further Reading Index
Acknowledgements