Table of Contents |
| Alphabetical Table of Contents | |
| Thematic Table of Contents | |
| Preface | |
| About the Editors | |
| Contributors | |
Volume 1 | A---D | 1 |
| Abolitionism and Antislavery | 1 |
| Abortion | 4 |
| Adventism and Millennialism | 12 |
| Adventist and Millennialist Denominational Families | 21 |
| African American Religion: Colonial Era through the Civil War | 25 |
| African American Religion: From the Civil War to Civil Rights | 33 |
| African American Religion: Post---Civil Rights Era | 43 |
| African Traditional Religions | 51 |
| Amana Communities | 58 |
| America, Religious Interpretations of | 62 |
| American Revolution | 69 |
| Anabaptist Denominational Family | 75 |
| Anabaptists | 83 |
| Angels | 89 |
| Anglican Tradition and Heritage | 93 |
| Anglicans in Colonial and Revolutionary America | 104 |
| Anti-Catholicism | 112 |
| Antinomian Controversy | 117 |
| Anti-Semitism | 121 |
| Apocalypticism | 127 |
| Appalachian Mountain Religion | 135 |
| Architecture | 142 |
| Architecture: Asian Religions | 149 |
| Architecture: Early America | 156 |
| Architecture: The European Protestant Background | 163 |
| Architecture: Jewish | 169 |
| Architecture: Muslim | 175 |
| Architecture: New Religious Movements | 181 |
| Architecture: Protestant, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present | 186 |
| Architecture: Roman Catholic | 194 |
| Atheism, Agnosticism, and Disbelief | 203 |
| Atlantic World | 213 |
| Baha'i | 221 |
| Baptists: African American | 224 |
| Baptists: Denominations | 230 |
| Baptists: Sectarian | 238 |
| Baptists: Southern | 246 |
| Baptists: Tradition and Heritage | 254 |
| Benevolent Empire | 268 |
| Bible: As Sacred Text, Translations, Cultural Role | 281 |
| Bible: Interpretation of | 294 |
| Bioethics | 302 |
| Book of Mormon | 310 |
| Buddhism in North America | 313 |
| Buddhist Tradition and Heritage | 321 |
| California and the Pacific Rim Region | 329 |
| Calvinist/Reformed Tradition and Heritage | 337 |
| Camp Meetings | 347 |
| Canada: Aboriginal Traditions | 353 |
| Canada: Anglicans | 360 |
| Canada: Catholics | 368 |
| Canada: Church and State | 377 |
| Canada: Pluralism | 385 |
| Canada: Protestants and the United Church of Canada | 395 |
| Caribbean Religious Culture and Influence | 404 |
| Celebrity Culture | 411 |
| Chabad-Lubavitch | 419 |
| Charismatics/Charismatic Movements | 424 |
| Children and Adolescents | 432 |
| Christian Science | 440 |
| Church and State: Revolutionary Period and Early Republic | 449 |
| Churches of Christ | 460 |
| City Missions | 466 |
| Civil Religion in the United States | 468 |
| Civil War | 475 |
| Common Sense Realism | 483 |
| Congregationalists | 488 |
| Congregations | 496 |
| Constitution | 502 |
| Cult of Domesticity | 511 |
| Death and Burial Practices | 517 |
| Death of God Theology | 522 |
| Deism | 526 |
| Demographics | 531 |
| Denominationalism | 541 |
| Devotionalism | 551 |
| Disciples of Christ | 558 |
| Dispensationalism | 564 |
| Dutch Reformed | 569 |
| Index | 576 |
Volume 2 | E---K | 577 |
| Eastern Orthodox Tradition and Heritage | 577 |
| Eastern Orthodoxy | 585 |
| Economics | 592 |
| Ecumenism | 599 |
| Education | 607 |
| Education: Bible Schools and Colleges | 617 |
| Education: Boarding Schools | 620 |
| Education: Christian School Movement | 622 |
| Education: Colleges and Universities | 627 |
| Education: Court Cases | 635 |
| Education: Home Schooling Movement | 643 |
| Education: Parochial and Private Religious Day Schools | 646 |
| Education: Religious Issues | 656 |
| Education: Seminaries and Theological Education | 663 |
| Education: Sunday Schools | 672 |
| The Electronic Church | 677 |
| Emerging Church Movement | 682 |
| Emotion | 687 |
| Enlightenment | 693 |
| Environment and Ecology | 700 |
| Environment and Ecology: Colonial Era through the Early Nineteenth Century | 710 |
| Environment and Ecology: Current Ethical Issues | 716 |
| Environment and Ecology: Native American Cultures | 721 |
| Environment and Ecology: Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century | 726 |
| Episcopalians: Early Republic | 733 |
| Episcopalians: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era | 739 |
| Episcopalians: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries | 745 |
| Esoteric Movements | 751 |
| Establishment, Religious | 760 |
| Ethnicity | 765 |
| Ethnographic and Anthropological Approaches | 775 |
| Evangelicals: Colonial America | 783 |
| Evangelicals: Current Trends and Movements | 791 |
| Evangelicals: Nineteenth Century | 796 |
| Evangelicals: Twentieth Century | 804 |
| Evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design | 810 |
| Faith-Based Community Organizations | 819 |
| Faith-Based Initiatives | 824 |
| Feminism | 827 |
| Feminist Studies | 835 |
| Film | 838 |
| Folklore | 845 |
| Food and Diet | 852 |
| Freedom, Religious | 862 |
| Frontier and Borderlands | 870 |
| Fundamentalism | 875 |
| Fundamentalism: Contemporary | 886 |
| Gender | 895 |
| Geographical Approaches | 903 |
| Glossolalia | 910 |
| Great Awakening(s) | 913 |
| Great Lakes Region | 921 |
| Great Plains Region | 929 |
| Harmonialism and Metaphysical Religion | 937 |
| Hasidism | 943 |
| Healing | 948 |
| Health, Disease, and Medicine | 954 |
| Hindu Tradition and Heritage | 965 |
| Hinduism in North America | 973 |
| Hispanic Influence | 978 |
| Historical Approaches | 985 |
| History of Religions, Approaches | 993 |
| Holidays | 1001 |
| Holiness Denominational Family | 1013 |
| Holiness Movement | 1021 |
| Holocaust | 1027 |
| House Church Movement | 1032 |
| Idealist Philosophy | 1037 |
| Immigration: From the Colonial Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century | 1042 |
| Immigration: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to World War I | 1050 |
| Immigration: From World War I to the 1965 Immigration Act | 1058 |
| Immigration: Since the 1965 Immigration Act | 1063 |
| Independent Bible and Community Churches | 1068 |
| Internet | 1073 |
| Invisible Institution | 1081 |
| Islam in North America | 1083 |
| Islam Tradition and Heritage | 1091 |
| Jainism | 1101 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 1106 |
| Journalism | 1109 |
| Judaism: Conservative | 1114 |
| Judaism: Jewish Culture | 1120 |
| Judaism: Jewish Identity | 1125 |
| Judaism: Jewish Science | 1133 |
| Judaism: Orthodox | 1135 |
| Judaism: Reconstructionist | 1141 |
| Judaism: Reform | 1144 |
| Judaism: Sectarian Movements | 1150 |
| Judaism: Secular | 1153 |
| Judaism: Tradition and Heritage | 1158 |
| Krishna Consciousness | 1169 |
| Index | 1172 |
Volume 3 | L---P | 1173 |
| Latino American Religion: Catholics, Colonial Origins | 1173 |
| Latino American Religion: Catholics, Nineteenth Century | 1178 |
| Latino American Religion: Catholics, Twentieth Century | 1184 |
| Latino American Religion: Mainline Protestants | 1189 |
| Latino American Religion: Pentecostals | 1195 |
| Latino American Religion: Struggles for Justice | 1200 |
| Latino/a Religious Practice | 1205 |
| Latter-day Saints | 1214 |
| Liberation Theology | 1221 |
| Literature | 1224 |
| Literature: African American | 1237 |
| Literature: Colonial | 1244 |
| Literature: Contemporary | 1252 |
| Literature: Early Republic and the "American Renaissance" | 1260 |
| Literature: From the Civil War to World War I | 1267 |
| Liturgical Arts | 1274 |
| Lived Religion | 1282 |
| Lutheran Churches | 1289 |
| Lutheran Tradition and Heritage | 1298 |
| Mainline Protestants | 1309 |
| Marriage and Family | 1317 |
| Masculinity | 1322 |
| Material Culture, Approaches | 1329 |
| Megachurches | 1337 |
| Methodists: African American | 1340 |
| Methodists: Through the Nineteenth Century | 1346 |
| Methodists: Since the Nineteenth Century | 1354 |
| Methodists: Tradition and Heritage | 1362 |
| Mexico: Colonial Era | 1375 |
| Mexico: Independence to the Mexican Revolution | 1380 |
| Mexico: Indigenous Religions | 1386 |
| Mexico: Protestants | 1393 |
| Mexico: Twentieth Century | 1398 |
| Ministry, Professional | 1404 |
| Missions: Domestic | 1411 |
| Missions: Foreign | 1417 |
| Missions: Native American | 1421 |
| Moravians | 1427 |
| Mountain West and Prairie Region | 1432 |
| Music: African American | 1440 |
| Music: African American Gospel | 1444 |
| Music: African American Spirituals | 1448 |
| Music: Appalachian Religious | 1452 |
| Music: Christian | 1458 |
| Music: Contemporary Christian | 1466 |
| Music: Coritos/Spanish-Language | 1471 |
| Music: Hymnody | 1473 |
| Music: Jewish | 1481 |
| Music: Roman Catholic | 1486 |
| Music: White Gospel | 1491 |
| Nation(s) of Islam | 1497 |
| Native American Religions | 1501 |
| Native American Religions: Pre-Contact | 1514 |
| Native American Religions: Post-Contact | 1519 |
| Native American Religions: Contemporary | 1524 |
| Nature and Nature Religion | 1527 |
| Neo-Orthodoxy | 1533 |
| Neo-Paganism | 1538 |
| Neo-Thomism | 1541 |
| New Age Religion(s) | 1544 |
| New England Region | 1551 |
| New Religious Movements | 1561 |
| New Religious Movements: Black Nationalist Movements | 1571 |
| New Religious Movements: Nineteenth Century | 1576 |
| New Religious Movements: Twentieth Century | 1584 |
| Occult and Metaphysical Religion | 1593 |
| Oneida Community | 1598 |
| Pacific Northwest Region | 1601 |
| Pacifism and Conscientious Objection | 1609 |
| Pentecostal Denominational Family | 1615 |
| Pentecostals | 1623 |
| Pentecostals: African American | 1633 |
| Philanthropy | 1638 |
| Philosophical Theology | 1646 |
| Philosophy | 1649 |
| Pietism | 1656 |
| Pilgrims | 1662 |
| Pledge of Allegiance | 1667 |
| Pluralism | 1670 |
| Politics: Colonial Era | 1674 |
| Politics: Nineteenth Century | 1682 |
| Politics: Twentieth Century | 1690 |
| Polity | 1698 |
| Popular Religion and Popular Culture | 1701 |
| Popular Religion and Popular Culture: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War | 1711 |
| Popular Religion and Popular Culture: From the Civil War to the Mid-Twentieth Century | 1717 |
| Popular Religion and Popular Culture: Since the Mid-Twentieth Century | 1723 |
| Populism | 1728 |
| Positive Thinking | 1734 |
| Postmodernism | 1737 |
| Practical Theology | 1739 |
| Pragmatism | 1743 |
| Preaching | 1748 |
| Presbyterians: Colonial | 1753 |
| Presbyterians: Nineteenth Century | 1759 |
| Presbyterians: Since the Nineteenth Century | 1768 |
| Progressivism | 1775 |
| Prohibition | 1780 |
| Protestant Liberalism | 1782 |
| Psychology of Religion | 1791 |
| Puritans | 1793 |
| Index | 1806 |
Volume 4 | Q---Z | 1807 |
| Quakers: Through the Nineteenth Century | 1807 |
| Quakers: Since the Nineteenth Century | 1815 |
| Qur'an | 1820 |
| Race and Racism | 1825 |
| Radio | 1833 |
| Reformed Denominational Family | 1838 |
| Religion, Regulation of | 1844 |
| Religious Prejudice | 1851 |
| Religious Prejudice: Anti-Cult | 1857 |
| Religious Press | 1860 |
| Religious Right | 1867 |
| Religious Studies | 1875 |
| Religious Thought | 1880 |
| Religious Thought: African American | 1892 |
| Religious Thought: Feminist | 1899 |
| Religious Thought: Gay Theology | 1908 |
| Religious Thought: Jewish | 1910 |
| Religious Thought: Latino/a | 1913 |
| Religious Thought: Lesbian Theology | 1918 |
| Religious Thought: Mujerista | 1921 |
| Religious Thought: Reformed Protestant | 1924 |
| Religious Thought: Roman Catholic | 1930 |
| Religious Thought: Womanist | 1935 |
| Revivalism: Nineteenth Century | 1939 |
| Revivalism: Twentieth Century to the Present | 1946 |
| Roman Catholicism: African American Catholics | 1954 |
| Roman Catholicism: Catholics in the Atlantic Colonies | 1960 |
| Roman Catholicism: Catholics in the New Nation and the Early Republic | 1963 |
| Roman Catholicism: The Impact of Immigration in the Nineteenth Century | 1968 |
| Roman Catholicism: The Age of the Catholic Ghetto | 1976 |
| Roman Catholicism: The Cold War and Vatican II | 1984 |
| Roman Catholicism: The Later Twentieth Century | 1988 |
| Roman Catholicism: Early Twenty-First-Century Issues | 1993 |
| Roman Catholicism: Cultural Impact | 1996 |
| Roman Catholicism: French Influence | 2004 |
| Roman Catholicism: Tradition and Heritage | 2008 |
| Romanticism | 2019 |
| Same-Gender Marriage | 2027 |
| Santeria | 2031 |
| Science | 2034 |
| Scientology | 2047 |
| Scriptures: American Texts | 2052 |
| Seeker Churches | 2057 |
| Serpent Handlers | 2060 |
| Settlement Houses | 2062 |
| Seventh-day Adventists | 2065 |
| Sexuality and Sexual Identity | 2068 |
| Shakers | 2076 |
| Sikhs | 2080 |
| Social Ethics | 2086 |
| Social Gospel | 2089 |
| Social Reform | 2096 |
| Sociological Approaches | 2109 |
| The South as Region | 2117 |
| The Southwest as Region | 2125 |
| Spiritualism | 2133 |
| Spirituality | 2139 |
| Spirituality: Contemporary Trends | 2146 |
| Sport(s) | 2153 |
| Stone-Campbell Movement | 2161 |
| Suburbanization | 2166 |
| Sunday and the Sabbath | 2169 |
| Supreme Court | 2175 |
| Systematic Theology | 2182 |
| Television | 2187 |
| Theocracy | 2191 |
| Torah | 2194 |
| Tourism and Pilgrimage | 2197 |
| Transcendentalism | 2205 |
| Transcendental Meditation | 2211 |
| Unaffiliated | 2215 |
| Unification Church | 2220 |
| Unitarians | 2222 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association | 2228 |
| Universalists | 2231 |
| Utopian and Communitarian Experiments | 2234 |
| Violence and Terror | 2245 |
| Visual Culture | 2255 |
| Visual Culture: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts in Early America | 2265 |
| Visual Culture: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Revolution to the Civil War | 2272 |
| Visual Culture: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Civil War to World War II | 2278 |
| Visual Culture: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts since World War II | 2286 |
| Voodoo | 2291 |
| Wicca and Witchcraft | 2295 |
| Women | 2300 |
| Women Religious | 2313 |
| Women: Evangelical | 2322 |
| Women: Jewish | 2328 |
| Women: Muslim | 2333 |
| Women: Ordination of | 2338 |
| Women: Protestant | 2344 |
| Women: Roman Catholic | 2349 |
| World War I | 2354 |
| World War II | 2357 |
| Worship: Anglican | 2360 |
| Worship: Contemporary Currents | 2363 |
| Worship: Eastern Orthodox | 2368 |
| Worship: Jewish | 2371 |
| Worship: Muslim | 2376 |
| Worship: Protestant | 2381 |
| Worship: Roman Catholic | 2389 |
| Zen Buddhism | 2399 |
| Zionism | 2402 |
| Image Credits | 2407 |
| Index | 2408 |