This book is the first to investigate the effect of the biblical
Holy Land on American religious institutions, from early Puritanism
in 1620 to Judaism in 1948. It explores the attachment between
religious America and the Land of Israel from a pluralistic
perspective, tracing the history of religion in America as it
relates to the spiritual and geographical identity of the Holy
Land. Contents: Preface; Introduction: The Holy Land in American
Religious Thought. PART I: THE HOLY LAND COMES TO AMERICA; Puritans
and Congregationalists: The Americanization of Zion; Sephardic
Jewry: Present and Future Zion; American Indians: Ten Lost Tribes
and Christian Eschatology. PART II: NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIVIDUAL
TIES TO THE HOLY LAND; Protestant Pilgrims: Disjunction between
Expectation and Reality; Protestant Missionaries: Jewish Conversion
and Christ's Return; Consuls: Jews and Holy Land History. PART III:
RELIGIOUS GROUPS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; Christianity among
Blacks: The Spiritual Holy Land; Protestant Liberalists: Jewish
Return and Christian Kingdom; Mormons: Dialectical Holy Lands;
Judaism: American Impact and Internal Divisions. PART IV: THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY; Protestant Liberalism: Universal Ideas;
Catholicism: Holy Land of Christ's Crucifixion; Judaism: Centrality
of the Land; Conclusion.
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