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Title: American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity by Paul K. Conkin, Paul Keith Conkin ISBN: 0-8078-2342-2 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Religious scholarship at its best
Comment: This is a truly outstanding work in American religious history. Conkin delves deep into the historical details surrounding these groups, yet never loses focus of the larger picture and the major themes that make each group distinctive. His chapter on Mormonism is particularly good; no other work sorts out the complicated events and themes of the Latter-day Saints with as much clarity and concision.
Believers should note this is a scholarly work, and deals with questions those inside the faith, in their modes of worship, do not consider. Conkin is very fair with these groups; those unhappy with this work should compare it to the hatchet jobs many professors of religion, or sectarian believers, do to those of other faiths.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating approach to American Christian denominations!
Comment: I've been waiting for a book like this for a really long time. The book is fact filled, easy to read (for those new to religious concepts & sects) and informative. The author breaks the sects up so that we can better understand the denominations as a whole. The section on Apocalptic Christianity is one of the best. Many members of the sects discussed might be offended as it does point out inaccuracies or missteps within the sect. A great read!!
Rating: 2
Summary: Harold Bloom is the true erudite
Comment: American Originals is a poor, dry shadow of The American Religion written by Harold Bloom several years ago. It has none of the thrill of following and intimately disecting the american direction in religious ontology. It has an overall air of Ho-Hum. A feeling of "I wrote this book because I could." Not that its facts are terribly inaccurate but the point is that if I wanted a dictionary of religious history I would have bought one.
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Title: Forgotten Features of the Founding: The Recovery of Religious Themes in the Early American Republic by James H. Hutson, James Hutson ISBN: 073910571X Publisher: Lexington Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Lost Soul of American Protestantism by D. G. Hart, R. Laurence Moore, D.G. Hart ISBN: 0742507688 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch ISBN: 0300050607 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Catholicism and American Freedom: A History by John T. McGreevy ISBN: 0393047601 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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