Author: McDannell, Colleen; editor:
Title: Religions of the United States in Practice. Volume One.
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, x,512 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 33 papers concerning Praying: Individual & Communal Worship; Singing: Songs of Devotion, Praise & Protest; Teaching: Learning How to Live Correctly; Healing: Health, Happiness & the Miraculous; Imagining: The Unseen World; Persuading: Witnessing, Controversies & Polemics. Includes: D. Ashton "The Amidah in Colonal American Synagogues"; E. Reiss "17th-Century Puritan Conversion Narratives"; R.B. Mullin "The Book of Common Prayer & 18th-Century Episcopalians"; J.W. Martin "The Green Corn Ceremony of the Muskogees"; A.G. Schneider "The Way of Holiness: The Friday Meeting"; P.O. Killen "Reception of Novices into the Order of the Sisters of St. Benedict"; M.J. McClymond "English Hymnody in Early America"; D. Ashton "The 1842 Hymnal of Penina Moise"; R.B. Grimes, S.J. " Catholic Song in the Antebellum United States"; P. Harvey "African American Spirituals"; M.D. McNally "Ojibwe Funerary Hymn Singing"; C.D. Gifford " Temperance Songs & Hymns"; D.J. Meeter " The Celebration of Marriage in the Dutch Reformed Church"; J.W. Martin "The Visions of Plenty-coups"; L.S. Hernadi "Mary Anne Sadlier's Advice for Irish Catholic Girls" ; M.J. McClymand "John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida Community, & Male Continence"; K.P.Minkema "The Spiritual Meanings of Illness in 18th- Century New England" ; G. Underwood "Supernaturalism & Healing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints"; P. Gardella "Christian Physiology & Diet Reform"; T.J. Meagher "The Miracles of St. Anthony of Padua"; K.P. Minkema "Possession, Witchcraft & the Demonic in Puritan

Keywords: History of Religion, United States, Religious, America American, Social Sociology, , , ,