A 400 year history of religion in America
2021
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Although we think of religion in colonial America and our religious past as being defined by groups that came here to flee persecution elsewhere, what's astonishing is not the transplanted religions but the ones native to our soil: Shakers, Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists, Scientologists, numerous varieties of Baptists, and many more. These and other groups were born here, took root, and flourished, helping to create the country that we know today—a deeply religious place. As faith withers on the vine in many countries around the world, why is the United States the religious exception? Although one might think that refusing to establish a state church would make a country less religious, the opposite proved true. In the U.S., religion was opened up to spiritual entrepreneurs, who offered new varieties of worship on every street corner—and got especially adept at advertising what they were selling. In the end, religion is made in the U.S. for the same reason that cars, airplanes, and boats are made here: because of low regulation and low barriers to entry, and because, in this land of ingenuity, we have never had a shortage of dreamers or schemers.
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Author:
Oppenheimer, Marc, director
Imprint:
United States : Dreamscape Media, LLC, ©2021.Australia : Distributed by Dreamscape Media, LLC, ©2021.©2021
Collation:
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 98 minutes) sound, colour 12 cm.
Notes:
In English. [CC] English captions (descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired).
Audience:
Exempt from classification.
System details:
DVD
Dewey class:
209.73
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
397707
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| Penrith | DVD | 209.73 FOU | Exempt from classificationAvailable |
| St Marys | DVD | 209.73 FOU | Exempt from classificationAvailable |