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  • The Quakers in America

    by Thomas Hamm ...
    Series series Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
    The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

    by David Brion Davis ...
    **Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General NonfictionShortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature**From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly fifty years in the making.David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of the twentieth century, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Salem Possessed

    The Social Origins of Witchcraft

    by Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum ...
    Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • Slave Religion

    The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South

    by Albert J. Raboteau ...
    Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources-- ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Forged in Faith

    How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation 1607-1776

    by Rod Gragg ...
    The true drama of how faith motivated America’s Founding Fathers, influenced the Declaration of Independence and inspired the birth of the nation.This fascinating history, based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers leading up to and encompassing the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian worldview ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Jesus, Jobs, and Justice

    African American Women and Religion

    by Bettye Collier-Thomas ...
    “The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as she anticipated the collapse of Jim Crow segregation and pondered the fate of African Americans. Following ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies

    Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this experience and its universal application, Fox preached a spirituality in which potentially all were ministers, all part of a priesthood of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

    by David L. Holmes ...
    It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account of the religious culture of the late colonial era, surveying the religious groups in each colony. In ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Plantation Church

    How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery

    by Noel Leo Erskine ...
    Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about "the Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Head and Heart

    A History of Christianity in America

    by Garry Wills ...
    Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for his bestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, he combines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianity in America throughout the last 400 years. Wills argues that the struggle now, as throughout our nation's history, is between the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Doubting Thomas?

    The Religious Life and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson

    by Mark A. Beliles, Jerry Newcombe ...
    A religious historian argues that historical revisionism has distorted the religious views of Thomas Jefferson, making him appear far more skeptical than he was.Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers intended a strict separation of church and state, right? He would have been very upset to find out about a child praying in a public school or a government building used for religious purposes, ... Read more

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  • The Indian Great Awakening

    Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America

    by Linford D. Fisher ...
    The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle with the ongoing realities of colonialism between the 1670s and 1820. In particular, he looks at how ... Read more

    $36.89 USD