Understanding and teaching religion in US history / edited by Karen J. Johnson and Jonathan M. Yeager.
| Other author | Johnson, Karen J., 1981- editor. |
| Other author | Yeager, Jonathan M., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2024] |
| Description | xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Understanding and teaching religion in United States history |
| Series | Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history. ^A1165915 |
| Contents | Introduction: Why religion matters in teaching US history / Karen J. Johnson and Jonathan Yeager -- Part one: Frameworks for teaching religion in American history. Teaching American religious history academically / Thomas A. Kidd -- Adding religion to themes you already teach: religion as a component of diversity in America / Kevin Schultz -- Talking about religion and race in the classroom / Karen J. Johnson -- African American religious experiences and narratives of American history / Paul Harvey -- Religion in women's history / Andrea L. Turpin -- Native American religious experiences and cross-cultural engagement / Melissa Franklin Harkrider -- Teaching American Islam in the American history classroom / Jaclyn Michael -- Asian religious influences in American life / Elijah Siegler -- Teaching American Judaism / Jonathan Krasner -- Part two: Teaching religion in American history in specific periods. Early Puritan colonies / Adrian Weimer -- Teaching the First Great Awakening / John Howard Smith -- Was America founded as a Christian nation? / John Fea -- Framing the constitutional principles governing religion in the early republic / Daniel L. Dreisbach -- Religion and westward expansion / John G. Turner -- The Bible and slavery before the Civil War / Mark A. Noll -- What connections were there between imperialism and missionary activity? / Kimberly Hill -- How did Christians respond to the industrial crisis of the Gilded Age? / Heath Carter -- The prosperity gospel in US history and culture / Phillip Luke Sinitiere -- The effects of the fundamentalist modernist split / George Marsden -- How did the Depression change the relationship between church and state? / Alison Collis Greene -- Religion during World War II and the Cold War / Matthew Avery Sutton -- Religion and the civil rights movement / Darren Dochuk. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023040964 |
| ISBN | 9780299346300 |
| ISBN | 0299346307 hardcover |
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