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Veröffentlichung:	März 2007
Genre:	Philosophie
ISBN:	9781406748987
EAN-Code:	9781406748987
Verlag:	Campbell Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 23 mm
Gewicht:	540 gr
Seiten:	384
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Religion In Colonial America by William Warren Sweet New York Charles Scribners Sons 1942 To our three sons PAUL ROBINSON SWEET WILLIAM WARREN SWEET, JR. RICHARD WILLIAMS SWEET Preface r Pi HE PURPOSE of this volume is to place religion in its proper perspective in American colonial history. Religion has been JJL the most neglected phase of American history. The average college student could pass a better examination in Greek mythol ogy than on American Church history, and is better informed on the Mediaeval popes than he is on the religious leaders of America. It is hoped that this volume and the others that are to follow will help to remedy this lamentable situation-The present volume tells the story of the beginnings of organized religion in America of the struggle for survival of the transplanted religious bodies of their gradual growth and expansion, and of their increasingly important part in the developing life of the American people. A knowledge of this story is essential if the soul and spirit of America is to be understood, The early chapters of the volume deal with the transplanting to the colonies of a cross-section of western European religion as it existed in the seventeenth century. To 1660 the dominant reli gious groups in America were the offshoots of the dominant reli gious bodies of Protestant Europe, representing the conservative wing of the Protestant Reformation. This resulted in the bringing over of the European tradition of Church-State relationship, and it was put into operation in all the colonies established up to that time, except in Rhode Island and Maryland. After 1660, however, a whole new set of liberalizing influences began to operate, which by the endof the colonial period had completely changed the entire situation. From this time forward the right wing bodies became less and less important while the left wing religious groups, finding in Anglo-America for the first time a chance to develop, waxed stronger and stronger. In the seventeenth century there was little in the way of religion that could be called dis tinctively American in the eighteenth century America began to viii Preface turn its back more and more upon European influence, with the result that a distinctively American religious scene began to appear. In the last two chapters the principal theme is the American ization of Christianity. The eighteenth century saw American religion more and more democratized and, in the Great Colonial Revivals, for the first time religion reached down to the masses. In the process the old European Church-State relationship was gradually changed, and with independence came the opportunity to bring to a successful completion the century-and-a-half struggle for religious freedom and the separation of Church and State. How this, the greatest of all of American contributions both in the realm of religion and politics, was achieved cannot be under stood unless the course of colonial religious development is care fully followed-The growing interest in American cultural history renders a larger understanding of the religious development of America a necessity. The attempt to appraise American culture apart from religion is a contradiction in itself, for culture has to do with the moral and religious as well as the intellectual life of a society. Until recent years this phase of American history, outside New England, was not only neglected, itwas minimized and even despised by some who liked to think of themselves as trained his torians. For the last generation and more a majority of our histor ians have been economic determinists, and consequently stressed our materialistic development to the neglect of those matters which have to do with the mincl and the spirit. No nation of the world has had its political, and economic life so fully analyzed as has ours on the other hand, no great people of modern times have been so neglectful of the spiritual and idealistic phase of their development...