Jesus in America: A History.Richard Ri·chard , Joseph Henri Maurice Known as "Rocket." 1921-2000. Canadian hockey player. A right wing for the Montreal Canadiens (1942-1960), he led his team to eight Stanley Cup championships and was the first player to score 50 goals in a Wightman Wightman is a surname, and may refer to:
Jesus in America: A History HarperSanFrancisco, 2004, 488pp. $27.95 Fox's expansive survey explores the broad range of distinctly American views of Jesus from the time of Columbus to the late twentieth century. Written in lucid prose and thoroughly researched, this fascinating and informative account will engage a wide readership read·er·ship n. 1. The readers of a publication considered as a group. 2. Chiefly British The office of a reader at a university. , from adherents of different faith traditions to intellectual and cultural historians. Fox is interested in both the explicit role of religious leadership in American history (e.g., the Puritans in the East and Catholic missionaries in the West) and in the ways that major American social and political movements--women's rights, abolition The destruction, annihilation, abrogation, or extinguishment of anything, but especially things of a permanent nature—such as institutions, usages, or customs, as in the abolition of Slavery. In U.S. , civil rights--appropriated Jesus as a moral authority and rallying figure to advance their respective causes. |
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