Author : Charles H. Lippy
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
After sketching the late-medieval European political climate, each of these distinguished historians dramatizes the confrontation between European Christians and the indigenous tribal cultures of the new world. Lippy then follows the growth of Protestantism, Choquette describes the expansion of French Christianity, and Poole traces the spread of Catholicism throughout the Americas. Maps.
Author : Charles H. Lippy
Publisher : New York : Paragon House
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
After sketching the late-medieval European political climate, each of these distinguished historians dramatizes the confrontation between European Christians and the indigenous tribal cultures of the new world. Lippy then follows the growth of Protestantism, Choquette describes the expansion of French Christianity, and Poole traces the spread of Catholicism throughout the Americas. Maps.
Author : Nicholas Griffiths
Publisher : Nicholas Griffiths
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2006
Category : America
ISBN : 1847531717
A Spanish conquistador who posed as a sorcerer and cured native Americans as he trekked across an unknown wilderness; a French Jesuit who conjured rain clouds in order to impress his indigenous flock with the potency of Christian magic; a Puritan minister who healed a native chief in order to win him for God; a Mexican noble who was burned at the stake for resisting the gentle Franciscan friars; an Andean chief who was haunted by nightmares in which his native gods did battle with the Christian Father; a Huron magician who vied with French missionaries over spirits of the night in a shaking tent ceremony. These are a few of the individuals whose struggles are brought to life in the pages of this book. Their experiences, among others, reveal what happened when Christianity came into contact with Native American religions in three distinct regions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century colonial America: Spanish, French and British.
Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136919562
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1613 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN :
A mix of thematic essays, reference entries, and primary source documents covering the role of religion in American history and life from the colonial era to the present. Often controversial, religion has been an important force in shaping American culture. Religious convictions strongly influenced colonial and state governments as well as the United States as a new republic. Religious teachings, values, and practices deeply affected political structures and policies, economic ideology and practice, educational institutions and instruction, social norms and customs, marriage, and family life. By analyzing religion's interaction with American culture and prominent religious leaders and ideologies, this reference helps readers to better understand many fascinating, often controversial, religious leaders, ideas, events, and topics. The work is organized in three volumes devoted to particular periods. Volume one includes a chronology highlighting key events related to religion in American history and an introduction that overviews religion in America during the period covered by the volume, and roughly 10 essays that explore significant themes. These essays are followed by approximately 120 alphabetically arranged reference entries providing objective, fundamental information about topics related to religion in America. Each volume presents nearly 50 primary source documents, each introduced by a contextualizing headnote. A selected, general bibliography closes volume three.
Author : Charles H. Lippy
Publisher : JBE Online Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2009
Category : United States
ISBN : 0980163358
Author : William J. Federer
Publisher : Amerisearch, Inc.
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781880563052
An Invaluable resource highlighting america's noble heritage, profound quotes from founding fathers, presidents, statesmen, scientists, constitutions, court decisions ... for use in speeches, papers, debates, essays ...
Author : Robert Emmett Curran
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0813225833
This is a brief highly readable history of the Catholic experience in British America, which shaped the development of the colonies and the nascent republic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Historian Robert Emmett Curran begins his account with the English reformation, which helps us to understand the Catholic exodus from England, Ireland, and Scotland that took place over the nearly two centuries that constitute the colonial period. The deeply rooted English understanding of Catholics as enemies of the political and religious values at the heart of British tradition, ironically acted as a catalyst for the emergence of a Catholic republican movement that was a critical factor in the decision of a strong majority of American Catholics in 1775 to support the cause for independence
Author : Robert M. Riffle
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1606471538
The Miracle of Independence is a general survey of American History from a Christian perspective. It covers the events beginning with the Age of Exploration to the Second Great Awakening. This manuscript reveals that America would have never existed nor survived without divine intervention. The hand of God is seen in the formation of this country from the time Columbus set sail with three caravels across a large uncharted ocean. God's presence is revealed with the founding of the original thirteen colonies and in the zeal of the God fearing people who inhabited these colonies. God's miraculous power manifested itself when the forces of darkness seemed overwhelming. This was true in the early years of settlement, during the War of Independence, and in the post war era. Against great odds America survived, grew, and developed into the greatest of all nations that ever existed, due to the miraculous power of an ever present and loving God. Robert M. Riffle was born in 1941 in McClellandtown, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of German Township, Fayette County, and he graduated from German Township High School in 1959. He received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Waynesburg College, nowWaynesburg University in 1963. He later took graduate courses in history, political science, and English at West Virginia University. He taught history for seven years in the Albert Gallatin Area School District in Fayette County, Pennsylvania prior to moving to southern California. He taught history and social studies in San Diego County for twenty-four years and retired from the San Diego Unified School District. He is presently employed by Palomar College in San Marcos, California as a tutor in history, political science, and economics.
Author : James E. Seelye Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : History
ISBN :
This fascinating multivolume set provides a unique resource for learning about early American history, including thematic essays, topical entries, and an invaluable collection of primary source documents. In 1783, just months after the United States achieved independence from Great Britain, General George Washington was compelled to convince his officers not to undertake a military coup of the Congress of Confederation. Had the planned mutinous coup of the Newburgh Conspiracy gone forward, the American experiment may have ended before it even began. The pre-colonial and colonial periods of early American history are filled with accounts of key events that established the course of our nation's development. This expansive three-volume set provides entries on a wide variety of topics and themes in early American history to elucidate how the United States came to be. Written in straightforward language, the encyclopedic entries on social, political, cultural, and military subjects from the pre-Columbian period through the creation of the Constitution (roughly 1400–1790) will be useful for anyone wishing to deeply investigate the who, what, where, when, and why of early America. Additionally, the breadth of primary documents—including personal diaries, letters, poems, images, treaties, and other legal documents—provides readers with firsthand sources written by the men and women who shaped American history, both the famous and the less well known. Each of the three volumes also presents thematic essays on highlighted topics to fully place the individual entries within their proper historical context and heighten readers' comprehension.
