Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 2 / / ed. by Colleen McDannell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ashton, Dianne,; Best, Wallace,; DeBerg, Betty,; Espinosa, Gastón,; Gardella, Peter,; Goff, Philip,; Harvey, Paul,; Ingersoll, Julie,; Kassam, Tazim R.,; Killen, Patuda O\x27Connell,; Laderman, Gary,; Lang, Bernhard,; Maclean, lain S.,; McAlister, Elizabeth,; McClymond, Michael,; McDannell, Colleen,; McNally, Michael D.,; Meagher, Timothy J.,; Nadell, Pamela S.,; Ochs, Vanessa L.,; Oppenheimer, Mark,; Porterjield, Amanda,; Prentiss, Craig R.,; Prothero, Stephen,; Riess, Jana Kathryn,; Seager, Richard Hughes,; Vásquez, Manuel A.,; Weisenjeld, Judith,
• HerausgeberIn: McDannell, Colleen,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Readings in Religions ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 2 explores faith through action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people--praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while other texts describe more spontaneous religious actions. Because religious practices also take place in the imagination, dreams, visions, and fictional accounts are also included. Accompanying each primary document is an essay that sets the religious practice in its historical and theological context--making this volume ideal for classroom use and accessible to any reader. The introductory essays explain the various meanings of religious practices as lived out in churches and synagogues, in parlors and fields, beside rivers, on lecture platforms, and in the streets. Religions of the United States in Practice offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States. The history of religion in America is more than the story of institutions and famous people. This anthology presents a more nuanced story composed of the everyday actions and thoughts of lay men and women.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PRINCETON READINGS IN RELIGIONS -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Praying: Individual and Communal Worship -- 1. Lucy Smith and Pentecostal Worship in Chicago -- 2. Lutheran Family Devotions -- 3. The Daily Prayer (Du'a) of Shica Isma'ili Muslims -- 4. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament -- 5. The Homemade Passover Haggadah -- 6. Mormon Fast and Testimony Meetings -- Singing: Songs of Devotion, Praise, and Protest -- 7. Hanukkah Songs of the 1950s -- 8. Freedom Songs and the Civil Rights Movement -- 9. Folk Music in the Catholic Mass -- 10. Buddhist Chanting in Soka Gakkai International -- 11. Contemporary Christian Worship Music -- Teaching: Learning How to Live Correctly -- 12. Teaching Morality in Race Movies -- 13. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Liberal Protestant Teaching -- 14. Reconciling Patriotism and Catholic Devotion: Catholic Children's Literature in Postwar America -- 15. Sex and Submission in the Spirit -- 16. An Apache Girl's Initiation Feast -- 17. Taking or Receiving the Buddhist Precepts -- Healing: Health, Happiness, and The Miraculous -- 18. Tongues and Healing at the Azusa Street Revival -- 19. Navajo Healing Ceremonies -- 20. The Power of Positive Thinking -- 21. Shamanism in the New Age -- 22. Jewish Mourning Practices -- 23. The Latter-day Saint Word of Wisdom -- Imagining: The Unseen World -- 24. Early Christian Radio and Religious Nostalgia -- 25. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Making of an American Myth -- 26. Spiritual Warfare in the Fiction of Frank Peretti -- 27. Charismatic Renewal among Latino Catholics -- 28. Visualizing Chenrezi in American Tibetan Buddhism -- 29. The Rite of Baptism in Haitian Vodou -- Persuading: Witnessing, Controversies, and Polemics -- 30. Millions Now Living Will Never Die -- 31. Ordaining Women Rabbis -- 32. Mother India's Scandalous Swamis -- 33. The Wit and Wisdom of The Door -- 34. Battling Spiritism and the Need for Catholic Orthodoxy -- INDEX