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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
by Jeff Sharlet  Publisher Comments A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful They are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde...
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Religion in America: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Timothy Beal Publisher Comments It's hard to think of a single aspect of American culture, past or present, in which religion has not played a major role. The roles religion plays, moreover, become more bewilderingly complex and diverse every day. For all those who want--whether out of...
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Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession
by R Fuller Publisher Comments The Antichrist, though mentioned a mere four times in the Bible, and then only obscurely, has exercised a tight hold on popular imagination throughout history. This has been particularly true in the U.S., says author Robert C. Fuller, where Americans...
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American Transcendentalism: A History
by Philip F. Gura Publisher Comments The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked...
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Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
by Chris Hedges 
Powells.com Staff Pick In 2002, after fifteen years traversing the world's most dangerous places, war correspondent Chris Hedges published a widely-acclaimed meditation on the psychology of war. Now, he's entered yet another battlefield. In Losing Moses on the Freeway, Hedges...
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Religions of America Ferment and Faith In an Age of Crisis a New Guide and Almanac
by Leo Rosten Publisher Comments This fascinating new book reflects the results of the turmoil and change in the religions of America since Leo Rosten first wrote about them.<P>The first section consists of nineteen articles by distinguished men, each one a recognized authority on...
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Sacred America: The Emerging Spirit of the People
by Roger Housden Publisher Comments Sacred America, in lucid and poetic prose, is the story of ordinary people who have dared to follow and trust the voices of their own souls in the midst of everyday life in the United States. It is also the story of another America, one not seen on the...
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The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America
by David Domke Publisher Comments In The God Strategy, David Domke and Kevin Coe offer a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years--from the 1932 election of Franklin...
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When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Studies in Cultural History)
by Paul Boyer Publisher Comments 'When Time Shall Be No More' offers for the first time an in-depth look at the subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary American thought and culture....
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The Shakers: Two Centuries of Spiritual Reflection (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by Robley Edwa Whitson Publisher Comments The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted!<P>In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American...
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Disciples of the Street: The Promise of the Hip Hop Church
by Eric Gutierrez Review "This is a stunner. Eric Gutierrez opens closed windows of the soul and delivers an utterly challenging, refreshingly original work. Read it." Malcolm Boyd - Author of "Are You Running with me, Jesus?"...
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Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
by Steven Waldman Publisher Comments The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were...
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The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers
by Stephen J Stein Publisher Comments The first general history of the Shakers, from their origins in 18th-century England to the present day. Drawing on written and oral testimony by Shakers over the past two centuries, Stein offers a full and often revisionist account of the movement. 57...
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Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (Gender and American Culture)
by Catherine A. Brekus Publisher Comments Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who...
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Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--And What We Should Do about It
by Noah Feldman
Publisher Comments A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time. Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that church-state matters in the United States had reached a...
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A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation
by Diana L Eck Publisher Comments < p> Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today< /p> < ul> < li> The 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.< /li> < li...
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Religion in American Politics: A Short History
by Frank Lambert Publisher Comments The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist...
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Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
by Diana Butler Bass Publisher Comments For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her...
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The Mathers
by Robert Middlekauff Publisher Comments A classic history of Puritanism in colonial New England, told through the lives and writings of three generations of intellectual ministers....
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From Sea to Shining Sea
by Peter Marshall Publisher Comments God's plan for America unfolded as on infant nation plunged westward after the 1783 Treaty of Paris. This sequel to The Light and the Glory tells the story of expansion across a continent through 1837....
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