Race and New Religious Movements in the USA

A Documentary Reader

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Emily Suzanne Clark, Brad Stoddard, USA) Clark, Emily Suzanne (Gonzaga University, USA) Stoddard, Brad (McDaniel College

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Organized in chronological order of the founding of each movement, this documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from the 18th century to the present. It provides students with the tools to understand questions of race, religion, and American religious history. Movements covered include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), the Native American Church, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and more. The voices included come from both men and women. Each chapter focuses on a different new religious movement and features:- an introduction to the movement, including the context of its founding - two to four primary source documents about or from the movement - suggestions for further reading.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-08
Mått169 x 244 x 12 mm
Vikt690 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350063976

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Emily Suzanne Clark is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University, USA. She is author of A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (2016).Brad Stoddard is Assistant Professor of religious studies at McDaniel College, USA. He is the co-editor of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés (Bloomsbury, 2017) and President of the North American Association for the Study of Religion.

AcknowledgementsList of permissions 1. Introduction2. The Code of Handsome Lake 3. Conjure 4. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 5. Spiritualism 6. Ghost Dance Movement 7. Ku Klux Klan 8. Theosophy 9. Native American Church 10. Commandment Keepers 11. Moorish Science Temple 12. International Peace Mission Movement 13. Nation of Islam14. Peoples Temple 15. Aryan Nations 16. The Nation of Yahweh 17. Odinism BibliographyIndex