Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans

By: R. Laurence Moore

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Paperback | 1 December 1987

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Throughout history, the reality of America''s diverse religious life has continually been subordinated to the themes of Protestant unity and dominance. At the centre of this study are seven religious groups that are usually accorded a secondary influence on American culture: the Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists, Millennialists, 20th-century Protestant Fundamentalists, and the black churches. Through these groups Moore boldly shows that the conventional distinctions between what is "mainstream" and what is "marginal" in American culture are largely strategical fictions created by historians and historical actors, and that many of these "outside" groups in fact embody values that are quintessentially American. The book also examines the part that religious persecution has played in American history, and the ways in which religious groups have often turned persecution to their own advantage. The author''s analysis of pluralism provides a solid and important new context for viewing America''s religious past and also builds a solid historical perspective for understanding the religious cults and sects that are receiving so much attention in American life today.This is a paperback reissue of the hardback first published in 1986.

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"Relentlessly honest in his sympathetic examination of group after group."--The New York Times Book Review "[A] very important and provocative book."--Religious Studies Review "[Moore's] knowledge is...enyclopedic and insight recurrently arresting."--Times Higher Education Supplement "This group of essays is perhaps the most...instructive new interpretation to appear in the field of American religious history in a decade."--American Quarterly "This well-written, well-argued book raises important questions to sort out our confusion of tongues. It is in the best sense provocative."--The Catholic Historical Review "Should be required reading for American students of new religions. It challenges several premises widely accepted by sociologists working in this area."--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion "[A] provocative book....Heightens our appreciation of the ingenuity and organizational genius of such founders as Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy and Charles T. Russell....Its telegraphic and tantalizing style will surely spark innumerable and fevered discussions on the connection between pluralism and religious originality and deviance."--Cithara "[A] scholarly and insightful volume."--CHOICE "A stimulating and complex work....Inimitably provocative in its candor, its freshness, and its foundation on the best of contemporary scholarship."--Church History

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Religion History of Religion History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Society & Culture Cultural Studies Social Groups Regional & National History History of the Americas

Comparative Religion Christianity

Introduction: Protestant Unity and the American Mission--The Historiography of a Desire	p. 3
Outsider Religions, Ethnicity, and American Identity
How To Become a People: The Mormon Scenario	p. 25
Managing Catholic Success in a Protestant Empire	p. 48
American Jews as an Ordinary Minority	p. 72
The Progressive's Despair--Religions for Average Americans
Christian Science and American Popular Religion	p. 105
Premillennial Christian Views of God's Justice and American Injustice	p. 128
The Protestant Majority as a Lost Generation--A Look at Fundamentalism	p. 150
Black Culture and Black Churches--The Quest for an Autonomous Identity	p. 173
Postscript: Civil and Uncivil Religions--Describing Religious Pluralism	p. 201
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 237
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