In hundreds of thoughtful, informative entries, Encyclopedia of American Religious History, Fourth Edition outlines the numerous philosophers, personalities, social issues, and cultural histories of religious practices throughout American history.

Table of Contents

• 0-9
• 13X, Clarence
• A
• Abbott, Lyman
• Abernathy, Ralph
• abolition, religious groups and
• Abraham Lincoln, religious beliefs of
• academic study of religion
• Act of Toleration (Maryland)
• Adler, Cyrus
• Adler, Felix
• Adler, Margot
• African-American religions
• African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
• African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
• Alcott, Amos Bronson
• Allen, Richard
• American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• American Humanist Association (AHA)
• American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA)
• American Missionary Association (AMA)
• American Revolution, religion and
• American South, religion and
• americanist crisis in the Catholic Church
• Ames, Edward Scribner
• Amish
• Anabaptists
• ancient Eastern churches
• Anglicanism
• Anglo-Catholicism
• anti-Catholicism
• anti-Semitism
• anticult movement
• Antinomian Controversy
• architecture (religious)
• Arminianism
• Ásatrú
• Asbury, Francis
• Assemblies of God
• Assyrian Church of the East
• atheism
• Azusa Street revival
• B
• Backus, Isaac
• Bahá'í Faith
• Baker, Ella
• Ballou, Hosea
• Baltimore Catechism
• baptism
• Baptists
• Beat movement, religion and
• Beecher, Henry Ward
• Beecher, Lyman
• Belavin, Tikhon
• Bellamy, Joseph
• Berrigan, Daniel
• Berrigan, Philip
• Bible schools
• Bible societies
• biblical interpretation
• Birthright
• Black Jews
• Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
• Book of Mormon
• Bradford, William (governor)
• Bradstreet, Anne
• Branch Davidians
• Briggs, Charles Augustus
• Brooks, Phillips
• Brown, John
• Brownson, Orestes
• Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel
• Buddhism
• Buddhist Churches of America
• Burned-Over District
• Burroughs, Nannie Helen
• Bushnell, Horace
• C
• Cahenslyism
• Calvert, Cecilius
• Calvinism
• Cambridge Platform
• camp meetings
• Campbell, Alexander
• Cane Ridge Revival
• Carroll, John
• Carter, Jimmy
• Cartwright, Peter
• Catholic Worker movement
• Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR)
• Channing, William Ellery
• Charismatic movement
• charitable choice
• Chauncy, Charles
• Christadelphians
• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• Christian Identity Movement (CIM)
• Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
• Christian perfectionism
• Christian Reformed Church
• Christian Science
• church and state, relationship between
• Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
• Church of God in Christ (COGIC)
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Church of the Nazarene
• Churches of Christ
• circuit riders
• civil religion
• Civil Rights movement, religion and
• Civil War, religion and
• Clarke, James Freeman
• Clarke, William Newton
• Coffin, William Sloan, Jr.
• Coke, Thomas
• cold war, religion and
• Colson, Charles
• Columbus, Christopher
• Committee of Southern Churchmen
• communism
• communitarianism
• Community of Christ
• congregationalism
• Conservative Judaism
• conversion, Christian
• Conwell, Russell
• Cotton, John
• Coucouzes, Iakovos
• Coughlin, Charles E.
• Council on American-Islamic Relations
• Councils of Baltimore
• counterculture
• Covenant Theology
• creationism
• Crosby, Fanny (Frances Jane)
• Crummell, Alexander
• cultural and religious impacts of the Vietnam War
• Cushing, Richard Cardinal
• D
• Dabney, Robert Lewis
• Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
• Daly, Mary
• Davies, Samuel
• Davis, Andrew Jackson
• Day, Dorothy
• "death of God"
• deep ecology
• Dharmapala, Anagarika
• dispensationalism
• Dixon, Amzi Clarence
• domestic missions
• Dorsey, Thomas
• Drew, Timothy
• DuBois, W. E. B.
• DuBose, William Porcher
• Dunkers
• Dwight, Timothy
• Dyer, Mary
• E
• ecumenical movement
• Eddy, Mary Baker
• Edwards, Jonathan
• Eikerenkoetter, Frederick J. II
• Einhorn, David
• election
• Eliot, John
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, religious reform and
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• Enlightenment
• Ephrata Community
• episcopacy
• Episcopal Church
• eschatology
• ethnicity
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
• Evangelical United Front
• evangelicalism
• evolution and religion
• F
• faith-based initiatives
• Falwell, Jerry
• Fard, W. D.
• Farrakhan, Louis
• Father Divine
• feminist theology
• Finney, Charles Grandison
• First Amendment, religion and
• Five-Percent Nation
• foreign missions
• Fosdick, Harry Emerson
• Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Freemasonry
• Frelinghuysen, Theodorus Jacobus
• frontier, religion and
• Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
• fundamentalism (general)
• The Fundamentals
• Furman, Richard
• G
• Garvey, Marcus
• German Reformed Church
• Ghost Dance, ca. 1890
• Gibbons, James
• Gideons International
• Gladden, Washington
• Gospel of Wealth
• Grace, Sweet Daddy
• Graham, Billy
• Graham, Franklin
• Graves, James Robinson
• Gray, Asa
• Great Awakening
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America
• Grimké, Angelina and Sarah Moore
• H
• Habitat for Humanity
• Half-way Covenant
• Hall, Prathia
• Handsome Lake
• Harkness, Georgia Elma
• Hasidism
• Haygood, Atticus Greene
• Haystack Prayer Meeting
• Heaven's Gate
• Hecker, Isaac
• Henry, Carl Ferdinand Howard
• heresy
• Heschel, Abraham Joshua
• Higher Christian Life movement
• Hinduism
• Hispanics and religion
• Hobart, John Henry
• Hodge, Charles
• Holiness movement
• homosexuality, religion and
• Hooker, Thomas
• Hopkins, Emma Curtis
• Hopkins, Samuel
• Howe, Julia Ward
• Hsi Lai Temple
• Hubbard, L. Ron
• Huguenots
• Humanist Manifesto
• Hunt, Ernest Shinkaku
• Hurley, George Willie
• Hutchinson, Anne
• Hutterites
• I
• immigration
• inerrancy
• Ingersoll, Robert Green
• Insight Meditation Society (IMS)
• International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)
• International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
• Ireland, John
• Islam
• Islamic Society of North America
• Islamism
• J
• Jackson, Jesse
• Jainism
• James Madison, religious beliefs of
• James, William
• Jarratt, Devereux
• Jehovah's Witnesses
• Jesuits
• Jesus movement
• John Dewey, religious beliefs of
• John Muir, philosophy of
• John Paul II
• Jones, Absalom
• Jones, Bob
• Jones, Charles C.
• Jones, J. William
• Jones, Jim
• Jones, Sam
• Jordan, Clarence
• Judaism
• Judson, Adoniram
• justification
• K
• Kahane, Meir
• Kallen, Horace Meyer
• Kaplan, Mordecai
• Keithian controversy
• Kennett, Jiyu
• King, Coretta Scott
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• Kino, Eusebio Francisco
• Kohler, Kaufmann
• Koinonia Farm
• Krauth, Charles Porterfield
• Krishnamurti, Jiddu
• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
• L
• LaHaye, Tim
• Lange, Elizabeth
• Lee, Ann
• Lee, Bruce
• Lee, Jarena
• Leeser, Isaac
• Leland, John
• liberation theology
• Lichtenstein, Aharon
• Lipscomb, David
• literature and Christianity
• Longinqua Oceani
• "lost cause" ideology of the South
• Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
• Lutheranism
• M
• Machen, J. Gresham
• Maezumi, Hakuyu Taizan
• Mahan, Asa
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• mainline Protestantism
• Malcolm X
• Manifest Destiny and religious values
• Mann, Horace
• Maréchal, Ambrose
• Margaret Fuller, transcendentalism and social thought of
• Marquette, Jacques
• Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Mather, Cotton
• Mather, Increase
• Mathews, Shailer
• Mayflower Compact
• Mayhew, Jonathan
• McPherson, Aimee Semple
• megachurches
• Mencken, H. L.
• Mendes, Henry Pereira
• Mennonites
• Merton, Thomas
• Mesmerism
• Methodists
• Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC)
• Miller, William
• Moody, Dwight Lyman
• Moon, Sun Myung
• Moorish Science Temple
• Morais, Sabato
• Moral Majority
• Moravians
• Mother Cabrini
• Mott, John Raleigh
• Muhammad, Elijah
• Muhammad, Warith Deen
• Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior
• Murray, John Courtney
• music and art
• Muslim Public Affairs Council
• N
• Nation of Islam (NOI)
• National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)
• National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. (NBCA)
• National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
• National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC)
• National Conference of Catholic Bishops
• National Council of Churches (NCC)
• Native American assimilation and resistance
• Native American Church
• Native American religions
• Native American religions: Eastern Woodlands
• Native American religions: Intermontane
• Native American religions: Northwest
• Native American religions: Plains
• Native American religions: Southwest
• nativism
• nature religion
• Neo-Conservatism
• neoorthodoxy
• neopaganism
• Nevin, John Williamson
• New Age movement
• New Divinity
• New Lights, Old Lights
• new religious movements
• New School
• New Side
• New Thought
• Niebuhr, H. Richard
• Niebuhr, Reinhold
• Nones
• Noyes, John Humphrey
• O
• O'Connor, John
• O'Hair, Madalyn Murray
• Olcott, Henry Steel
• Old Catholic movement
• ordination
• Orthodox Christianity
• Orthodox Church in America (OCA)
• Orthodox Judaism
• Owen, Robert Dale
• P
• pacifism
• Paine, Thomas
• Palmer, Phoebe Worrall
• Paramananda, Swami
• Parham, Charles Fox
• Parker, Theodore
• Penn, William
• Pennington, James W. C.
• Pentecostalism
• philanthropy
• pietism
• Pilgrims
• Pittsburgh Platform
• Plan of Union
• pluralism
• positive thinking
• postmillennialism
• Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
• Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr.
• Prabhupada, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
• premillennialism
• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
• presbyterianism
• Princeton Theology
• Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
• proslavery thought, religion and
• Prosperity Gospel
• Protestant fundamentalism
• Protestant modernism
• Protestant preachers
• Protestant primitivism
• public education, religion and
• Puritanism
• Q
• Quakers
• Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst
• R
• Ram Dass
• Rapp, George
• rapture
• Rauschenbusch, Walter
• Reconstructionist Judaism
• Reform Judaism
• Reformation
• Reformed Church in America
• Reformed tradition
• education, religion and
• international affairs, religion and
• medicine, religion and
• technology, religion and
• women, religion and
• religion during the colonial period
• religion in Maryland during the colonial period
• religion in New France
• religion in New Netherland
• religion in New Spain
• religion in Pennsylvania during the colonial period
• religion in the Carolinas during the colonial period
• religion in Virginia during the colonial period
• religious education
• religious establishment
• Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
• Religious Right
• religious violence
• Religious Zionists of America (RZA)
• Restoration movement
• Revivalism
• Right to Life movement
• Ripley, George
• Roberts, Oral
• Robertson, Pat
• Robinson, Ida B.
• Roman Catholicism
• Rosicrucians
• Royce, Josiah
• Russell, Charles Taze
• Ryan, John Augustine
• S
• Sabbatarianism
• Salem witch trials
• Salvation Army
• sanctification
• Sanctuary movement
• Sankey, Ira
• Santería
• Satanism
• Saybrook Platform
• Schaff, Philip
• Schechter, Solomon
• Schmemann, Alexander
• Schmucker, Samuel
• Schneerson, Menachem
• science and religion
• Scientology
• Scofield, C. I.
• Scopes trial
• Scottish Common Sense Realism
• Seabury, Samuel
• Second Great Awakening
• secular humanism
• Secularism
• segregation, religious criticism and apologia
• Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF)
• September 11, 2001, religion and
• Serra, Junípero
• Seton, Elizabeth Ann
• Seventh-day Adventist Church
• sexuality in American culture
• Seymour, William Joseph
• Shakers
• Sheen, Fulton J.
• Sheldon, Charles
• Sikhism
• slavery and religion
• Small, Albion Woodbury
• Smith, Joseph, Jr.
• snake handling
• Social Gospel
• Society for Ethical Culture
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
• Sojourners Fellowship
• Soka Gakkai International-USA (SGI-USA)
• Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov
• Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
• Spalding, Martin John
• Spellman, Francis Cardinal
• spiritualism
• Spyrou, Athenagoras
• Stoddard, Solomon
• Stone, Barton
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
• Strong, Josiah
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• Student Volunteer Movement (SVM)
• Sufism
• Sunday, Billy
• Sunday school movement
• Suzuki, D. T.
• Swedenborgianism
• Szold, Henrietta
• T
• Taoism
• Taylor, Nathaniel William
• Tecumseh
• Tekakwitha, St. Kateri
• televangelism
• temperance movement
• Ten Commandments controversy
• Tennent, Gilbert
• terrorism, religion and
• theological liberalism
• Theosophy
• Thomas Jefferson, religious beliefs of
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Thornwell, James Henley
• Thurman, Howard
• Tillich, Paul
• Tomlinson, Ambrose Jessup
• Torrey, Reuben Archer
• Transcendental Meditation (TM)
• transcendentalism
• Trungpa, Chogyam
• trusteeism
• Truth, Sojourner
• Tubman, Harriet
• Turner, Nat
• U
• U.S. Constitution, religion and
• Unification Church
• Unitarian controversy
• Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)
• United Church of Christ (UCC)
• United Methodist Church (UMC)
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
• United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)
• Universalism
• utopianism
• V
• Vatican Council I
• Vatican Council II
• Vedanta Society
• Verot, Augustin
• Vesey, Denmark
• Vivekananda, Swami
• voluntaryism
• Voodoo
• W
• Wahhabism
• Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm
• war and religion
• Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• Warfield, Benjamin B.
• Washington, Booker T.
• Watts, Alan Wilson
• Webb, Muhammad Alexander Russel
• Weld, Theodore Dwight
• Wesleyan tradition
• White, Alma Bridwell
• White, Ellen
• Whitefield, George
• Whitman, Walt
• Wicca
• Wilkinson, Jemima
• Willard, Frances
• William Jennings Bryan, fundamentalism and
• Williams, Roger
• Winthrop, John
• Wise, Isaac Mayer
• Wise, Stephen S.
• Witherspoon, John
• womanist theology
• The Woman's Bible
• Woolman, John
• World Council of Churches
• World's Parliament of Religions
• World War I, American religious groups and
• World War II, American religious groups and
• Worldwide Church of God
• Wovoka
• Y
• Yogananda, Swami Paramahansa
• Young, Brigham
• Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
• Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
• Z
• Zen
• Zinzendorf, Nicholas Ludwig von
• Zionism