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Mission and menace : four centuries of American religious zeal
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Mission and menace : four centuries of American religious zeal

Robert Jewett

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Shaping zealous trajectories
Colonial beginnings : the millennial city set upon a hill
God's new Israel : the theocratic experiment and its deflation
The Great Awakening : prelude to the American Revolution
The post-millennial republic: the "new order of the ages"
The second Great Awakening : new denominations, reforms, and the pre-millennial reaction
Millennial crises and the rise of fundamentalism
The Civil War : a conflict over the Bible and millennial mission
Reconstruction and racial violence : religion in cultural captivity
The gilded age and millennial destiny : war, colonialism, and the social Gospel
New diversity : emerging fundamentalism and the world's parliament of religion
Three millennial crusades : disappointment, the Red Scare, and the crisis of fundamentalism
Culture over Christ : acculturation and the decline of mainline churches
The menace of triumphant civil religion
Depression and World War : the rise of religious replacement and escapism
Cold War religion : the celebration of one nation under God
Zealous nationalism overwhelms prophetic realism : civil rights, Vietnam, and the conservative backlash
The political distortion of religion : impeachment and the war against terrorism.

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Mission and menace : four centuries of American religious zeal by Robert Jewett. ISBN 9780800662844. Published by Fortress Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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