Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History by Tweed, Thomas a.
Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History by Tweed, Thomas a.

Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History

A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from...
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Author: Thomas a. Tweed
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Language: English
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Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History by Tweed, Thomas a.

Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History

$90.60
Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History by Tweed, Thomas a.

Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History

$90.60
Author: Thomas a. Tweed
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age

Until now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English settlers in Jamestown or Plymouth and remained predominantly Protestant and Atlantic. Driven by his strong sense of the historical and moral shortcomings of the usual story, Thomas A. Tweed offers a very different narrative in this ambitious new history. He begins the story much earlier--11,000 years ago--at a rock shelter in present-day Texas and follows Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, transnational migrants, and people of many faiths as they transform the landscape and confront the big lifeway transitions, from foraging to farming and from factories to fiber optics.

Setting aside the familiar narrative themes, he highlights sustainability, showing how religion both promoted and inhibited individual, communal, and environmental flourishing during three sustainability crises: the medieval Cornfield Crisis, which destabilized Indigenous ceremonial centers; the Colonial Crisis, which began with the displacement of Indigenous Peoples and the enslavement of Africans; and the Industrial Crisis, which brought social inequity and environmental degradation. The unresolved Colonial and Industrial Crises continue to haunt the nation, Tweed suggests, but he recovers historical sources of hope as he retells the rich story of America's religious past.

Author: Thomas a. Tweed
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300221480

About the Author
Thomas A. Tweed is the Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. A past president of the American Academy of Religion, he is editor of Retelling U.S. Religious History and author of Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion and Religion: A Very Short Introduction.
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