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American History volume 2 gives a wide overview of America's
history from the end of the Civil War era, to the political and
cultural struggles of contemporary times. Thomas S. Kidd employs
lessons learned from his own scholarly expertise and history
classes to weave together a compelling narrative of the defeats and
triumphs that have defined the American national experience. Unlike
many textbooks of modern American history, religion and faith
remain central aspects of the book's coverage, through present-day
America. It gives detailed treatment of episodes such as America's
military conflicts, the Civil Rights movement, and the culture wars
of the past half-century. Professor Kidd also considers the
development of America's obsession with entertainment, from the
rise of the first movies, to the social media age. American History
v olume 2 will help students wrestle with the political and
cultural changes that have dramatically transformed contemporary
American life
A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his
ethical and spiritual life "Kidd's biography may well be the best
treatment of Jefferson's religious and moral life available, and
certainly it is among the few to take those two subjects seriously
while carefully avoiding hagiography or anachronism. It deserves a
wide readership."-Miles Smith, National Review "Set aside
everything you think you know about Thomas Jefferson and religion,
and read this book. This is the definitive account. It is well
written, well researched, judicious, and entirely
convincing."-Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College Thomas Jefferson was
arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in
American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life
and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric.
Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy
versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and
veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this
book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson's ethical life
through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus
on the issue where Jefferson's idealistic philosophy and lived
reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his
enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique
perspective on one of American history's most studied figures.
American History volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American
history from the first Native American societies to the end of the
Reconstruction period, following the Civil War. Drawing on a deep
range of research and years of classroom teaching experience,
Thomas S. Kidd offers students an engaging overview of the first
half of American history. The volume features illuminating stories
of people from well-known presidents and generals, to lesser-known
men and women who struggled under slavery and other forms of
oppression to make their place in American life. The role of
Christianity in America is central in this book. Americans' faith
sometimes inspired awakenings and the search for an equitable
society, but at other times it justified violence and inequality.
Students will come away from American History v olume 1 better
prepared to grapple with the challenges presented by the history of
America's founding, the problem of slavery, and our nation's
political tradition.
Winner of Christianity Today's 2016 Book Award for
History/Biography: an engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative
biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist
George Whitefield "The most authoritative yet readable book on the
eighteenth century's greatest preacher."-Marvin Olasky, World
Magazine "Kidd's theologically sympathetic approach gives the book
a depth that a more detached treatment might not: He misses none of
the biblical allusions that peppered Whitefield's utterances, and
he is an excellent guide through the tangled doctrinal
controversies that dogged Whitefield's career."-Barton Swaim, Wall
Street Journal In the years prior to the American Revolution,
George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas
Kidd's fascinating biography explores the extraordinary career of
the most influential figure in the first generation of
Anglo-American evangelical Christianity, examining his sometimes
troubling stands on the pressing issues of the day, both secular
and spiritual, and his relationships with such famous
contemporaries as Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and John
Wesley. Based on the author's comprehensive studies of Whitefield's
original sermons, journals, and letters, this excellent history
chronicles the phenomenal rise of the trailblazer of the Great
Awakening. Whitefield's leadership role among the new evangelicals
of the eighteenth century and his many religious disputes are
meticulously covered, as are his major legacies and the permanent
marks he left on evangelical Christian faith. It is arguably the
most balanced biography to date of a controversial religious leader
who, though relatively unknown three hundred years after his birth,
was a true giant in his day and remains an important figure in
America's history.
In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, many of
America's Christian evangelicals have denounced Islam as a
"demonic" and inherently violent religion, provoking frustration
among other Christian conservatives who wish to present a more
appealing message to the world's Muslims. Yet as Thomas Kidd
reveals in this sobering book, the conflicted views expressed by
today's evangelicals have deep roots in American history.
Tracing Islam's role in the popular imagination of American
Christians from the colonial period to today, Kidd demonstrates
that Protestant evangelicals have viewed Islam as a global
threat--while also actively seeking to convert Muslims to the
Christian faith--since the nation's founding. He shows how accounts
of "Mahometan" despotism and lurid stories of European enslavement
by Barbary pirates fueled early evangelicals' fears concerning
Islam, and describes the growing conservatism of American missions
to Muslim lands up through the post-World War II era. Kidd exposes
American Christians' anxieties about an internal Islamic threat
from groups like the Nation of Islam in the 1960s and America's
immigrant Muslim population today, and he demonstrates why Islam
has become central to evangelical "end-times" narratives. Pointing
to many evangelicals' unwillingness to acknowledge Islam's
theological commonalities with Christianity and their continued
portrayal of Islam as an "evil" and false religion, Kidd explains
why Christians themselves are ironically to blame for the failure
of evangelism in the Muslim world.
"American Christians and Islam" is essential reading for anyone
seeking to understand the causes of the mounting tensions between
Christians and Muslims today.
A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his
ethical and spiritual life "Kidd's biography may well be the best
treatment of Jefferson's religious and moral life available, and
certainly it is among the few to take those two subjects seriously
while carefully avoiding hagiography or anachronism. It deserves a
wide readership."-Miles Smith, National Review "Set aside
everything you think you know about Thomas Jefferson and religion,
and read this book. This is the definitive account. It is well
written, well researched, judicious, and entirely
convincing."-Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College Thomas Jefferson was
arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in
American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life
and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric.
Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy
versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and
veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this
book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson's ethical life
through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus
on the issue where Jefferson's idealistic philosophy and lived
reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his
enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique
perspective on one of American history's most studied figures.
All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree
that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is
foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. But what freedom of
conscience means, what its scope and limits are, according to the
Constitution - these are matters for heated debate. At a moment
when such questions loom ever larger in the nation's contentious
politics and fraught policy-making process, this timely book offers
invaluable historical, empirical, philosophical, and analytical
insight into the American constitutional heritage of religious
liberty. As the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume
attest, understanding religious freedom demands taking multiple
perspectives. The historians guide us through the legacy of
religious freedom, from the nation's founding and the rise of
public education, through the waves of immigration that added
successive layers of diversity to American society. The social
scientists discuss the swift, striking effects of judicial decision
making and the battles over free exercise in a complex,
bureaucratic society. Advocates remind us of the tensions abiding
in schools and other familiar institutions, and of the major role
minorities play in shaping free exercise under our constitutional
regime. And the jurists emphasize that this is a messy area of
constitutional law. Their work brings out the conflicts inherent in
interpreting the First Amendment - tensions between free exercise
and disestablishment, between the legislative and judicial branches
of government, and along the complex and ever-shifting boundaries
of religion, state, and society. What emerges most clearly from
these essays is how central religious liberty is to America's civic
fabric - and how, under increasing pressure from both religious and
secular forces, this First Amendment freedom demands our full
attention and understanding.
During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed
the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious
movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the
1740s. This engrossing book explores the religious history of New
England during the period and offers new reasons for this change in
cultural identity. After England's Glorious Revolution, says Thomas
Kidd, New Englanders abandoned their previous hostility toward
Britain, viewing it as the chosen leader in the Protestant fight
against world Catholicism. They also imagined themselves part of an
international Protestant community and replaced their Puritan
beliefs with a revival-centered pan-Protestantism. Kidd discusses
the rise of "the Protestant interest" and provides a compelling
argument about the origins of both eighteenth-century revivalism
and the global evangelical movement.
Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly
offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text
on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and
new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstructing the lives of
European colonists, Africans, and Native Americans and their
encounters in colonial North America, Kidd offers fresh
perspectives on these events and the period as a whole. This
compelling volume is organized around themes of religion and
conflict, and distinguished by its incorporation of an expanded
geographic frame.
No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious
history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S.
intellectual, cultural, and religious history from the seventeenth
through the twenty-first centuries. This collection of essays uses
the career of George M. Marsden and the remarkable breadth of his
scholarship to measure current trends in the historical study of
American evangelical Protestantism and to encourage fresh scholarly
investigation of this faith tradition as it has developed between
the eighteenth century and the present. Moving through five
sections, each centered around one of Marsden's major books and the
time period it represents, the volume explores different
methodologies and approaches to the history of evangelicalism and
American religion. Besides assessing Marsden's illustrious works on
their own terms, this collection's contributors isolate several key
themes as deserving of fresh, rigorous, and extensive examination.
Through their close investigation of these particular themes, they
expand the range of characters and communities, issues and ideas,
and contingencies that can and should be accounted for in our
historical texts. Marsden's timeless scholarship thus serves as a
launchpad for new directions in our rendering of the American
religious past.
No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious
history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S.
intellectual, cultural, and religious history from the seventeenth
through the twenty-first centuries. This collection of essays uses
the career of George M. Marsden and the remarkable breadth of his
scholarship to measure current trends in the historical study of
American evangelical Protestantism and to encourage fresh scholarly
investigation of this faith tradition as it has developed between
the eighteenth century and the present. Moving through five
sections, each centered around one of Marsden's major books and the
time period it represents, the volume explores different
methodologies and approaches to the history of evangelicalism and
American religion.
Besides assessing Marsden's illustrious works on their own terms,
this collection's contributors isolate several key themes as
deserving of fresh, rigorous, and extensive examination. Through
their close investigation of these particular themes, they expand
the range of characters and communities, issues and ideas, and
contingencies that can and should be accounted for in our
historical texts. Marsden's timeless scholarship thus serves as a
launchpad for new directions in our rendering of the American
religious past.
""American Evangelicalism" is a grandly conceived and skillfully
executed "festschrift" in honor of George M. Marsden. The affection
and regard for Marsden from his colleagues and former students
shine through one essay after another. As a major historian of
American evangelicalism whose temporal range spans from the
colonial era well into the twenty-first century, Marsden very much
deserves this impressive tribute." --Leigh Eric Schmidt, Edward C.
Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities,
Washington University in St. Louis
Baptists are the second-largest religious group in the United
States, trailing only Catholics. They represent nearly 20% of the
US population and a third of all American Protestants, and have
attained a certain level of notoriety for their penchant for
controversy. From their defiance of established churches in the
Colonial period, to pastor Robert Jeffress calling Mitt Romney's
Mormonism a "cult" during the Republican primaries of 2012 they
have consistently been at the forefront of religion's collision
with culture and society. This book will offer a history of
Baptists in America from the Colonial period to the present day,
from their fight for the separation of church and state to their
role as some of the chief combatants in today's culture wars. Their
history has been marked by internal battles and schisms that were
microcosms of national events, from the conflict over slavery that
divided North from South to the ascendancy of conservatives within
the Southern Baptist Convention, which mirrored developments within
the Republican Party. The book's primary theme will be Baptists'
struggles between seeing themselves as "insiders" or "outsiders" in
American culture. The persecuted Baptists of the colonial period
became one of the dominant churches in nineteenth-century America.
Today, they are the primary spokespersons for evangelical America.
Yet, even as they appear comfortable in this role, Baptists have
never been sure if America represented a Babylon of spiritual
exile, or a peaceful Zion. This book will offer a lively and
accessible history of one of America's most important religious
groups.
In the post-9/11 world, it is not difficult to see how important
religion remains in America and around the globe. An older
generation of scholars expected that America and the rest of the
Western world was headed inexorably toward secularization and the
end of religion. America is undoubtedly secular in many ways, and
our constitutional order requires a clear distinction between faith
communities and government. Yet from the colonial era to the
present, American men and women have been, and have remained, a
pervasively religious people. In America's Religious History,
leading historian Thomas S. Kidd traces the theological and ethnic
diversity and enduring strength of American religion, with special
attention to Christianity and evangelical faith. Interweaving
religious history and key events from the larger narrative of
American history, the book considers how faith commitments and
categories have shaped the nation. Written with the student in
mind, America's Religious History offers an up-to-date, narrative
introduction useful for undergraduate and graduate-level courses on
American religion. General readers wanting to better understand the
religious background of American life and politics will also enjoy
its engaging and insightful overview.
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