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Jacob Riis book profiling the poor lifestyle of immigrant communities | |
site of failed bus segregation boycott; police arrest crowds but don't jail them, and protesters are divided and slip into violence | |
mainline NYC minister, author of Power of Positive Thinking | |
massively-attended event in 1893 that overshadowed problems of industrialization with its innovative wonders | |
council that advocates religious freedom, ecumenism, liturgical reform, separation of Church and state, and generally reflects Americanism | |
Bruce Barton book characterizing Jesus as a shrewd, world-conquering businessman who built a lasting company | |
pluralistic, inclusive religion of infinite manifestations of God; 1.5M in US | |
West Indian woman who tells young Salem women about witchcraft and helps bring on the Witch Trials | |
Catholic bishop and philosopher/psychologist who had multiple popular TV shows (The Catholic Hour, Life Is Worth Living) | |
site of showdown between Gov. Orval Faubus and President Eisenhower that ended in federalizing the Nat'l Guard to enforce integration | |
perfectionist sect that shares all things (communist society) and even tried to strategically breed | |
preacher of muscular Christianity with Christological belief of Jesus as a fighter | |
Christian sect behind Joseph Smith who published main scripture in 1830 and moved group to OH, IL, and finally UT | |
'colony of intelligent and efficient women'; shelter for homeless, impoverished women that grew in charism and outreach over time | |
James Hunter wrote this book on the orthodox/conservative vs. progressive/liberal split in US | |
promotes theistic evolution in his banned book Evolution and Dogma | |
most conservative style of Judaism, most strict | |
vigilante White Knights member who (even if tacitly) advocated armed resistance against Satanism in black progress | |
religion of eliminating suffering thru wisdom with no primary deity; ~ 3M in US | |
egalitarian evangelical preacher celebrity of the Great Awakening; helped launch the American Revolution | |
Spanish explorer; effort to establish a utopian city in Venezuela failed | |
origin city for march on Birmingham by MLK, SCLC, and white allies | |
wrote Irony of American History (1952) on how US and USSR are eerily similar; recovers original sin--pride, roots of both WW's | |
WASP Civil War solider and author felt war rocked his world, made it uncertain and left afterlife hazy; became pragmatist | |
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more radical, student organization that used spontanaeity and improv for acts of civil disobedience; devolve into black power movement | |
2nd Great Awakening preacher, holds protracted meetings at night, egalitarian and not Calvinist | |
book by Nissenbaum and Boyer placing Witch Trials' cause in conflict between Salem Town and Salem Village, where Samuel Parris condemned the town's materialism | |
French writer raised in Enlightenment and French Revolution times who sought to study America | |
Abrahamic religion that is quietly similar to Christianity but sees itself as the fulfillment of Christian Revelation; 6M in US | |
named for apocalyptic Baptist preacher who failed in predicting the time of the 2nd coming | |
Upton Sinclair book that magnified the plight of workers in the Progressive Era of muckraking and yellow journalism | |
Baptist minister who believed in preaching and Church as religious, not social; led insular community and perpetuated American Way of Life by not responding to oppression | |
poet, wrote Howl, epitomizes the right to left shift in America | |
oppose Finneyite Whigs in gov't; advocate market regulation and gov't intervention | |
Birmingham police chief who felt Civil Rights movement was BS and communism | |
famous agnostic ACLU lawyer from Scopes Trial | |
names for anti-revivalists and new wave of evangelical, pro-revivalists (in that order) | |
modern equivalent of 1950s Catholicism, in the social stigma it carries and general cultural suspicions and fears | |
alternative metaphor for US society/culture and assimilation | |
Catholic demagogue priest from Detroit famous for wide-reaching radio addresses; outspokenly political but turns on FDR on goes off deep end, including anti-Semitism that gets him | |
belief that good works can usher in the Kingdom; good is triumphing over evil, establishing Kingdom; eschatology being realized now | |
feel end is imminent; pursue perfection through obsession with health | |
1791 treaty emphasizes no official Christianity, reaches out to Muslim community | |
black woman who felt God was truly present in the poor and marginalized and worked strongly as a MS Freedom Dem. to get seated at convention (1964) | |
1891 Catholic document encouraging Catholic activism on behalf of industrial workers | |
MLK's organization that mobilized through black churches and grass roots/working class efforts | |
passionate civil rights advocate whose impact was lessened by factions within his group and arrests and violence | |
stream of Judaism inveted by Rabbi Wise in Pittsburgh Platform to change dietary laws and make Jewish life more amenable to modern lifestyle | |
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Puritan concept that allows social participation in the Church but stops short of Communion | |
middle/moderate stream of Judaism | |
advocate of Big Stick diplomacy among his masculine Christianity in the face of emasculation ('Strenuous Life Speech') | |
founder of the Social Gospel, idea that salvation has a social component | |
4-time presidential candidate who defended the anti-evolution law | |
segregationist Alabama governor | |
grew up among Populist farmers and social justice; becomes Catholic priest intimately involved with FDR/New Deal reform | |
founder of Hull House | |
idea that science will replace religion and superstition; 'disenchantment of the world' (Max Weber) | |
The failure of this effort = The cost of nat'l reunion and economic prosperity was the disenfranchisement of blacks and the death of the Emancipation movement. | |
white man who worked among civil rights movement to preach universal atonement and expand prayer to advocating all people | |
Truman's document desiring a federal Civil Rights Dept., anti-lynching/civil rights legislation; never implemented because of DIxiecrat split in D Party | |
1852 book- example of Civil War Era abolitionist literature | |
Bohemian youth before Catholic conversion; social justice charism leads to her founding the Catholic Worker movement | |
first black to win the Nobel Peace Prize, gets it for diplomatic work in Israel/Palestine in 1948 | |
religious identification often described as 'evangelicals mad about something', pushed out of mainstream by Monkey/Scopes debacle | |
movement grounded in domesticity that tied drunkenness to domestic abuse | |
critic of American religion as being somewhat inauthentic and broad but not deep--no specific religion but a general framework reducible to democratic values | |
blight hits Ireland in mid-19th c. and forces already poor population to relocate and death tolls rocket up | |
book that says America's genius is in its liberty and equality but is susceptible to the despotism of public opinion and the tyranny of the majority | |
article by Caporael suggesting a physiological disease caused the witch trial episodes | |
abolishes restrictive national origins quotas from the 1920s; leeway for skill, family connections, persecution | |
Old Testament person from time of Noah, often cited as the justification for black slavery | |
Methodist preachers who rode from town to town in frontier America to soldify progress made by evangelical rallies (2nd Great Awakening) | |
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