The American religion : the emergence of the post-Christian nation /
Examination of America's national soul identifying the American religion as a variation of Gnosticism, believers in a pre-Christian tradition of individual divinity.
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New York :
Simon and Schuster,
[1992]
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Table of Contents:
- Origins. What is religious criticism? ; Enthusiasm, Gnosticism, American optimism ; Cane Ridge through Billy Graham
- American original : the Mormons. A religion becomes a people : the kingdom of God ; The religion-making imagination of Joseph Smith ; Baptism for the dead, spirits for the unborn
- Rival American originals. Christian science : the fortunate fall in Lynn, Massachusetts ; Seventh-Day Adventism : health, prophecy, and Ellen Harmon White ; Jehovah's Witnesses : against the American religion ; Pentecostalism : Swaggart slain in the Spirit ; The New Age : California orphism
- The Southern Baptist Convention. Baptists : from Roger Williams to E.Y. Mullins ; The enigma : what do Southern Baptists believe? ; The controversy : fundamentalism
- The American religion : a prophecy. African-American religion as paradigm ; The religion of our climate ; Coda : so great a cloud of witnesses.