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Introduction |
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1 | (10) |
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3 | (2) |
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Difficult Definitions: America, Religion, and History |
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5 | (2) |
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Where to Begin: A New World for Everyone |
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7 | (2) |
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The Action: Exclusion and Conflict; Inclusion and Consensus |
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9 | (1) |
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Primary Documents: A Special Feature of This Book |
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10 | (1) |
1 Catholic Missions, European Conquests |
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11 | (16) |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (2) |
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Divided Christianity, Mission and Empire |
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15 | (2) |
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Founding a New Spain in the "New World" |
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17 | (7) |
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A New France in Canada and the Midwest |
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24 | (3) |
2 Puritanism in New England |
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27 | (22) |
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Separatist "Pilgrims" and Non-Separatist "Puritans" |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (1) |
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Election, Predestination, and Salvation |
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32 | (2) |
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Church, State, and Religious Liberty |
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34 | (4) |
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The Banishment of Anne Hutchinson |
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38 | (3) |
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Spiritual and Military Warfare |
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41 | (3) |
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44 | (5) |
3 Early American Religious Diversity: The Caribbean, the Middle Colonies, and the South |
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49 | (26) |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (5) |
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56 | (2) |
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From New Amsterdam to New York |
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58 | (3) |
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61 | (1) |
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The Caribbean, Bermuda, and the South |
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62 | (5) |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (6) |
4 The Great Awakening |
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75 | (22) |
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"My Heart Was Broken": Through the Eyes of Nathan Cole, Connecticut Farmer |
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76 | (2) |
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"The Most Famous Man in America": George Whitefield, Traveling Evangelist and International Celebrity |
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78 | (3) |
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Jonathan Edwards, Theologian of Revival |
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81 | (7) |
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The Great Awakening and the Growth of the Baptists |
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88 | (5) |
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African Americans, Slavery, and the Great Awakening |
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93 | (4) |
5 The Enlightenment in America |
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97 | (16) |
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The Enlightenment and the Nation's Founders |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (3) |
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103 | (4) |
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White Supremacy and Slavery |
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107 | (3) |
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An Evangelical Enlightenment |
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110 | (3) |
6 The American Revolution |
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113 | (14) |
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From Revivals to Revolution? |
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113 | (2) |
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"No Taxation without Representation" |
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115 | (2) |
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Religious Arsenals: Fighting the War |
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117 | (2) |
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The Bible as Common Sense |
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119 | (4) |
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Slavery, Religion, and the Revolution |
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123 | (4) |
7 The New Nation |
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127 | (16) |
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The Constitution and Religion |
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127 | (4) |
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Religious Establishment and Religious Liberty |
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131 | (3) |
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Opposites Attack: Evangelicals and Rationalists |
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134 | (3) |
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The French Revolution and the "Age of Reason" |
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137 | (3) |
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Republican Religion in New Forms |
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140 | (3) |
8 New Revivals and New Faiths |
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143 | (28) |
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Rip Van Winkle and Religion in American Society |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (3) |
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148 | (2) |
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Denominations on the Move |
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150 | (4) |
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The Rise of Independent African American Churches |
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154 | (5) |
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159 | (4) |
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New Religions and Latter-Day Revelations |
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163 | (8) |
9 Slavery and the Civil War |
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171 | (20) |
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Slavery and the Nation's Founding |
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171 | (2) |
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173 | (1) |
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Religious Attacks on Slavery before the Civil War |
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173 | (4) |
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Divided Denominations and a Divided Bible |
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177 | (3) |
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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" |
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180 | (2) |
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A War of Providence and Patriotism |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (2) |
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"Both Read the Same Bible" |
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186 | (2) |
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Civil War and Civil Religion |
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188 | (3) |
10 The Second American Revolution: Emancipation, Immigration, and Reckoning with Life and Death |
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191 | (20) |
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193 | (5) |
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198 | (7) |
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The Spiritual Work of Mourning |
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205 | (6) |
11 The New Science and the Old Time Religion |
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211 | (22) |
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Reception of Darwin: American Responses |
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215 | (4) |
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Reception of Evolution: Progressive Responses |
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219 | (2) |
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Biblical Criticism Comes to America |
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221 | (3) |
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Reception of Biblical Criticism: A Progressive Response |
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224 | (2) |
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Popular Understandings of the Bible in the Later Nineteenth Century |
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226 | (7) |
12 Mass Immigration and the Closing Western Frontier |
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233 | (22) |
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New Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe |
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236 | (6) |
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Other World Religions Appearing |
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242 | (1) |
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The World Parliament of Religions |
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243 | (2) |
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Shifting Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy |
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245 | (3) |
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Native American Religious Life |
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248 | (4) |
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252 | (3) |
13 A Social Gospel and Black Religious Life in the Nadir |
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255 | (24) |
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256 | (10) |
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Black Religious Life in the Nadir |
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266 | (2) |
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Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise of 1895 |
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268 | (4) |
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The Talented Tenth, Black Arts and Letters, and Civil Rights |
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272 | (7) |
14 The Birth of the American Century and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Battles |
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279 | (18) |
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A Big Tent and the Big Stick |
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279 | (3) |
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Preparing the Way for Fundamentalism |
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282 | (5) |
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287 | (4) |
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The Battle Comes Home-Intensified Faith Controversies |
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291 | (3) |
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294 | (2) |
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296 | (1) |
15 A World in Crisis and an American Religious High |
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297 | (24) |
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Religion in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression |
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297 | (7) |
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The Crisis of Totalitarianism |
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304 | (6) |
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Protestant, Catholic, Jew in Postwar America |
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310 | (2) |
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Prosperity and Popular Religiosity |
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312 | (2) |
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New Voices, New Movements |
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314 | (7) |
16 A Catholic President, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Ferment of the 1960s |
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321 | (24) |
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A Catholic President and Vatican II |
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321 | (4) |
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The Civil Rights Movement |
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325 | (2) |
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Just versus Unjust Laws |
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327 | (4) |
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331 | (6) |
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New Forms of Religious Diversity |
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337 | (4) |
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Theologies of Liberation and the End of Universal Truth |
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341 | (4) |
17 The Culture Wars, Pentecostalization, and American Religion after 9/11 |
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345 | (24) |
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Religious Realignment on Political Lines |
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345 | (10) |
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The Consciousness Revolution and New Religious Identities |
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355 | (2) |
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New Roles for Women in Religious Leadership |
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357 | (1) |
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Private Religion, Pentecostalization, and the Prosperity Gospel |
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358 | (4) |
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American Religion after 9/11 |
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362 | (7) |
Notes |
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369 | (24) |
Index |
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