History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – September 2, 2005  

Religion in Colonial America: The English Inheritance  

I.                   Data.  Be sure you can define EACH of the following:  

1. “mood of eager expectation” (55)
2. David George & George Liele; Andrew Bryan
3. Religions differences by region (North; Middle colonies; Southern colonies)
4. Massachusetts Bay Company
5. Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson
6. Anglicans
7. Halfway Covenanters (69)
8. John Knox; Francis Makemie
9. Baptists
10. Quakers; John Woolman; Mary Fisher; Ann Austin
11. Dutch Reformed
12. Mennonites; Dunkers; Moravians
13. Ministerium of Pennsylvania; Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
14. First Jewish synagogue
15. “popular religion”
16. “civil religion”

II.                Critical thinking.    

1. Look carefully at religious DIFFERENCES in America.  Just how diverse was religion in America? (This is largely a “descriptive” question, in which you identify those traits which are “essential” and ignore those traits which are merely “accidental”).

2. Many religious people in American had roots in English “dissent.”  Was that important? 

3. Note the emergence, by the end of the chapter, of three categories: “formal religion” (denominations; buildings; church rules & regulations; theology;  “popular religion;” and (mentioned briefly), “civil religion.”  Describe each.  Compare and contrast them – how are they alike and different?

 

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