| Edition |
1st Touchstone ed. |
| Description |
288 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
"A Touchstone book." |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Origins. What is religious criticism? ; Enthusiasm, gnosticism, American orphism ; Cane Ridge through Billy Graham -- American original : the Mormons. A religion becomes a people : the Kingdom of God ; The religion-making imagination of Joseph Smith ; Baptism for the dead, spirits for the unborn -- Rival American originals. Christian Science : the fortunate fall in Lynn, Massachusetts ; Seventh-day Adventism : health, prophecy & Ellen Harmon White ; Jehovah's Witnesses: against the American religion ; Pentecostalism: Swaggart slain in the spirit ; The New Age : California orphism -- The Southern Baptist Convention. Baptists : from Roger Williams to E. Y. Mullins ; The enigma : what do Southern Baptists believe? ; The controversy : Fundamentalism -- The American religion : a prophecy. African-American religion as paradigm ; The religion of our climate -- Coda : so great a cloud of witnesses. |
| Subject |
United States -- Religion.
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Christian sects -- United States -- History.
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Gnosticism.
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| ISBN |
0671867377 (pbk.) : $12.00 |
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