New world faiths : religion in colonial America /

Many people believe that the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion. However, by the 1730s Catholics, Jews, and Africans had joined Native Americans, Puritans, and numerous other Protestants in the colonies. Jon Butler launches his narrative with a description of the state of religio...

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Main Author: Butler, Jon, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Series:Religion in American life.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Worlds old and new
  • Religion and missions in New Spain and New France
  • Religion in England's first colonies
  • The flowering of religious diversity
  • African and American Indian religion
  • Reviving colonial religion
  • Religion and the American Revolution.