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Quakers | Religion in America
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Quakers
Bacon, Margaret Hope. Mothers of Feminism. Harper, 1986. Documented introduction to American Quakerism and its attitude toward feminism.
Ingle, H. Larry. First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism. Oxford University Press, 1994, 1996. Places George Fox and the founding of Quakerism within a historical context.
Smith, Robert Lawren. A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense. Morrow, 1998. How Quakerism shaped the author's life, especially during decades of war; captures the day-to-day renewal that faith brought to one man.
Walvin, James. The Quakers: Money and Morals. John Murray, 1998. The story of Quakers who combined wealth and good works and whose achievements had a lasting affect on Britain.
West, Jessamyn, ed. The Quaker Reader. Viking, Reprint, Pendle Hill, 1962. 1992. A collection of Quaker literature and Quaker writers; for general readers.
Williams, Jean Kinney. The Quakers. Franklin Watts, 1998. General introduction that looks at Quaker beliefs and doctrines and the role Quakers have played in American history; for young adult readers.
Religion in America
Bloom, Harold. The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. Simon & Schuster, 1992. Bloom journeys through the soul of America to find out what Americans really believe.
Finke, Roger, and Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. Rutgers University Press, 1992. Challenges popular conceptions about American religion using the metaphor of religion as free-market economy in which churches compete for members.
Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. University of Chicago Press, 1990. How American Judaism has moved away from its traditional liberalism and is trying to come to grips with divisiveness within the Judaic community.
Hall, Douglas John. Confessing the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context. Fortress, 1996. Rethinking the foundational doctrines of Christian theology in light of North American history and culture.
Heyrman, Christine Leigh. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. Knopf, 1997. Details the rise of Christian conservatism in the South.
Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American Culture. Oxford University Press, 1982. A comprehensive and insightful history of Fundamentalism in America.
Warner, Michael, ed. American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr. Library of America, 1999. Drawing from all religious cultures, this volume comprises literary and historical masterpieces that reflect the collective soul of America throughout its history.
Wells, David F., ed. Reformed Theology in America: A History of Its Modern Development. Baker, 1997. Surveys the differing strands of American reformed thought.
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