| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 1386 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The development of American religion: an interpretive view -- Religion in Canada: a historical survey, 1500 to the present -- American religion in the twenty-first century -- Interfaith and ecumenical family of organizations -- Western liturgical family -- Anglicanism -- Eastern liturgical family -- Lutheran family -- Reformed-Presbyterian family -- Pietist-Methodist family -- Holiness family -- Pentecostal family -- European Free-Church family -- Baptist family -- Independent Fundamentalist family -- Adventist family -- Liberal family -- Latter-Day Saints family -- Communal family -- Western esoteric family I: ancient wisdom -- Western esoteric family II: spiritualism and new age -- Western esoteric family III: Magick -- Western esoteric family IV: Christian Science/Metaphysical -- Middle Eastern family, Part I: Judaism -- Middle Eastern family, Part II: Islam, Zoroastrianism, and Baha'I -- Eastern family, Part I: Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism -- Eastern family, Part II: Buddhism, Shinto, Japanese new religions -- Unclassified Christian churches -- Unclassified religious groups. |
| Summary |
Covers numerous North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada. Includes essays and directory listings describing the historical development of religious families and providing factual information about each group within those families. Provides, when available, rubrics for membership figures, educational facilities and periodicals. |
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Sects -- United States.
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Cults -- United States.
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Sects -- United States -- Directories.
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Cults -- United States -- Directories.
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United States -- Religion -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Melton, J. Gordon, editor.
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Beverley, James A., editor.
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Jones, Constance M., editor.
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Nadell, Pamela Susan, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Added Title |
Encyclopedia of American religions |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Melton's encyclopedia of American religions. Detroit : Gale, Cengage Learning, c2009 9780787696962 (DLC) 2008037465 |
| ISBN |
9781414410395 (electronic book) |
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9780787696962 (alk. paper) |
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