Amanda Porterfield 
American Religious History [PDF ebook] 

Series Editor’s Preface.
About the Contributors.
Introduction.
Part I: Historical Essays.
1. Errand Into the Wilderness. (Perry Miller).
2. Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combination,
and American Religious History. (Catherine L. Albanese).
3. Shouting Methodists. (Ann Taves).
4. Protestantism as Establishment. (William R. Hutchison).
5. American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity. (Randall
Balmer).
6. Catholicism and American Culture: Strategies for Survival.
(Jay P. Dolan).
7. Conservative Judaism. (Gerson D. Cohen).
8. ‘Introduction, ‘ The Faces of Buddhism in America. (Charles S.
Prebish).
9. Striving for Muslim Women’s Human Rights – Before and
Beyond Beijing: An African American Perspective. (Gwendolyn Zoharah
Simmons).
Part II: Primary Documents.
10. A Model of Christian Charity (1630). (John Winthrop).
11. Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (1637).
12. A Key into the Language of America (1643). (Roger
Williams).
13. Poems (1640-1665). (Anne Bradstreet).
14. The Nature of True Virtue (1765). (Jonathan Edwards).
15. Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779). (Thomas
Jefferson).
16. The Code of Handsome Lake (Ca.1800). (Edward
Cornplanter).
17. What a Revival of Religion Is (1834). (Charles Grandison
Finney).
18. The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836).
(Jarena Lee).
19. Nature (1836). (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
20. Poems (1863-1864). (Emily Dickinson).
21. The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and
Destiny (1865). (Orestes Brownson).
22. Our Country’s Place in History (1869). (Isaac M. Wise).
23. Pre-Existence of Our Spirits (1872). (Orson Pratt).
24. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875). (Mary
Baker Eddy).
25. A Function of the Social Settlement (1899). (Jane
Addams).
26. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). (William
James).
27. The Scofield Reference Bible (1909).
28. Christianity and Liberalism (1923). (J. Gresham Machen).
29. From Union Square to Rome (1939). (Dorothy Day).
30. The Future of the American Jew (1948). (Mordecai M.
Kaplan).
31. ‘Foreword, ‘ The Sacred Pipe (1953). (Black Elk).
32. ‘Sunflower Sutra’ (1955) and ‘Kaddish’ (1958). (Allen
Ginsberg).
33. Nonviolence and Racial Justice (1957). (Martin Luther King,
Jr.).
34. God’s Judgment of White America (1963). (Malcolm X).
35. ‘Preface, ‘ The Protestant Establishment (1964): E. Digby
Baltzell.
36. Religious Freedom (1966). ( John Courtney Murray).
37. Beyond God the Father (1973). (Mary Daly).
38. Ceremony (1977). (Leslie Marmon Silko).
39. ‘American Indian Religious Freedom, ‘ Public Law 95-341
(1978).
40. Sexism and God-Talk (1983). (Rosemary Radford Ruether).
41. The Voice of Sarah (1990). (Tamar Frankiel).
42. Thoughts Without a Thinker (1995). (Mark Epstein).
43. Active Faith (1996). (Ralph Reed).
Index.

Amanda Porterfield is Professor in the Religious Studies
Program at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of
Feminine Spirituality in America (1980), Female Piety in
New England (1992), The Power of Religion (1998), and
The Transformation of American Religion (2001).