Inspiration and Innovation E-Book

Todd M. Kerstetter

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Western History Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 499

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Covering more than 200 years of history from pre-contact to the present, this textbook places religion at the center of the history of the American West, examining the relationship between religion and the region and their influence on one another.

• A comprehensive examination of the relationship between religion and the American West and their influence on each other over the course of more than 200 years
• Discusses diverse groups of people, places, and events that played an important historical role, from organized religion and easily recognized denominations to unorganized religion and cults
• Provides straightforward explanations of key religious and theological terms and concepts
• Weaves discussion of American Indian religion throughout the text and presents it in dialogue with other groups
• Enriches our understanding of American history by examining key factors outside of traditional political, economic, social, and cultural domains

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Series Editors

The Western History Series

Title page

Copyright page

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Suggested Reading

1 Indigenous Religions in the West

Arctic

Sub-Arctic

Northwest Coast

Plains

Plateau

Great Basin

California

Southwest

Common Themes

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

2 Missions to New Worlds

Spain

France

Russia

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

3 Migrations, Manifest Destiny, and Mormons, 1803–1860

Transplanting Religions in the US Imperial Period

Religion and Manifest Destiny

Mormons and the Quest for Zion

The Mormon Question, 1852–1860

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

4 The West and Religion in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860–1890

Protestantism in the West

Catholicism in the West

Judaism in the West

Asian Religions in the West

The Mormon Question and the Mormon Answer, 1862–1890

American Indian Religious Experiences

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

5 Religion in the Modern West, 1890–1945

Mormonism

Catholicism

American Indians and Religion

Asian Religions and Influence

Modernism, Fundamentalism, and the Spirit of the West

World War I and Religion in the West

The Sunbelt and the Bible Belt

World War II and Religion in the West

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

6 Religion in the Cold War West, 1945–1965

Religious Innovation

Hispanics and Religion in the West

Evangelicals and the Sunbelt West

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

7 Creativity and Controversy after 1965

Immigration Reform and Asian Religions in the West

Religion in the Hispanic West

New Religious Movements

Religion and the Internet in the West

The Megachurch Boom

Religion in the Native West

Paths to the Present in Mormon Wests

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

Conclusion: The Frontier that Wouldn’t Close

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

Chapter 01

Figure 1.1 This map shows the geographical location of the major cultural groups who inhabited the West in pre-Columbian North America.

Figure 1.2 Spruce tree house kiva, Mesa Verde National Park, 1908.

Chapter 02

Figure 2.1 Mission Nuestra Senora de La Purisima Concepcion.

Figure 2.2 Saint Michael's Russian Orthodox Church, Sitka, Alaska, 1887.

Chapter 03

Figure 3.1 Massacre of Rev. Dr Whitman of the Presbyterian Mission.

Figure 3.2 Temple Emmanu-El, 1867.

Figure 3.3 George Caleb Bingham,

Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap

, 1851–52, oil on canvas.

Figure 3.4 Brigham Young, circa 1849.

Chapter 04

Figure 4.1 Big Foot's camp three weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Figure 4.2 Hon. J[ustin] S. Morrill, circa 1855–1865.

Figure 4.3 Polygamists in prison.

Figure 4.4 Black Elk and Elk in Dance Costume, 1880.

Figure 4.5 Charcoal drawing of Wovoka.

Chapter 05

Figure 5.1 Nick Black Elk and family, Catholic catechist.

Figure 5.2 Quanah Parker, a Kwahadi Comanche chief.

Figure 5.3 J. Frank Norris.

Figure 5.4 Aimee Semple McPherson at a revival.

Chapter 06

Figure 6.1 Garden Grove Community Church at the Orange Drive-In Theater.

Figure 6.2 Short Creek Residents, 1953.

Chapter 07

Figure 7.1 Lakewood Church in Houston.

Figure 7.2 Bishop T. D. Jakes.

Figure 7.3 Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Leave the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas.

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The Western History Series

SERIES EDITORS

Carol L. Higham and William H. Katerberg

The Western History Series

Conquests and Consequences: The American West from Frontier to RegionCarol L. Higham, William H. Katerberg

Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the U.S. WestSheila McManus

Expectations of Equality: A History of Black WesternersAlbert S. Broussard

Innovation and Inspiration: Religion in the American WestTodd M. Kerstetter

Inspiration and Innovation

Religion in the American West

Todd M. Kerstetter

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kerstetter, Todd M., 1963– Inspiration and innovation : religion in the American West / Todd M. Kerstetter.  pages cm – (Western history series) Includes bibliographical references and index.

 ISBN 978-1-118-84833-3 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-118-84838-8 (paper)1. West (U.S.)–Religion. I. Title. BL2527.W47K47 2015 200.978–dc23

    2014032714

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: George Caleb Bingham, Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap, 1851–52, oil on canvas. Washington University, St. Louis, USA / The Bridgeman Art Library

List of Illustrations

1.1

This map shows the geographical location of the major cultural groups who inhabited the West in pre-Columbian North America11

1.2

Spruce tree house kiva, Mesa Verde National Park, 1908

2.1

Mission Nuestra Senora de La Purisima Concepcion

2.2

Saint Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church, Sitka, Alaska, 1887

3.1

Massacre of Rev. Dr Whitman of the Presbyterian Mission

3.2

Temple Emmanu-El, 1867

3.3

Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap

3.4

Brigham Young

4.1

Big Foot’s camp three weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre

4.2

Hon. J[ustin] S. Morrill, circa 1855–1865

4.3

Group of polygamists in the Utah Penitentiary

4.4

Black Elk and Elk in Dance Costume, 1880

4.5

Charcoal drawing of Wovoka

5.1

Nick Black Elk and family, Catholic Catechist

5.2

Quanah Parker, a Kwahadi Comanche Chief

5.3

Aimee Semple McPherson at a revival

5.4

J. Frank Norris

6.1

Garden Grove Community Church at the Orange Drive-In Theater

6.2

Short Creek Residents, 1953

7.1

Lakewood Church in Houston

7.2

Bishop T. D. Jakes

7.3

Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Leave the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Carol Higham and Will Katerberg for inviting me to write this book. Thanks to both of them, also, for teaching me about writing and for devoting considerable time to helping develop the manuscript. Their expert guidance made this book much better than it would have been. Carol gets an extra measure of thanks for extracting this book from me. Without her encouragement and good humor, this thing might still be floating around in the space between my ears. I appreciate Andrew Davidson’s support as well as considerable help from Georgina Coleby, the project’s editor at Wiley Blackwell.

Colleagues at Texas Christian University helped this project in several ways. Peter Worthing, chair of the Department of History and Geography, provided course releases to compensate for the burdens of the graduate program. Becca Sharpless kindly and good-naturedly asked after my progress, which motivated me to work so I would have something to report in the hallways. Charlotte Hogg in the Department of English organized a faculty writing boot camp in the summer of 2013 that helped me do much of the work on Chapter 5. Her follow-up program during the 2013–2014 school year helped keep me on task. Thanks to Andrew Schoolmaster, dean of AddRan College of Liberal Arts, for supporting the boot camp and for supporting scholarship in general. TCU’s Mary Coutts Burnett Library generously provided me with a faculty research office where I could escape distractions to read, think, and write with immediate access to the library’s excellent resources. Thank you June Koelker, dean of the library! I consider myself profoundly fortunate to have had the manuscript reviewed by a Roman Catholic, a Mormon, and two ordained ministers (Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ), all of whom are very smart and who happened to be advanced doctoral students in history at TCU when I finally finished a complete draft. In alphabetical order, they are Lisa Barnett, Amanda Bresie, Brett Dowdle, and Beth Hessel. Their religious and historical expertise saved me from making several errors and improved the writing.

Elsewhere, I appreciate everything John Wunder taught me in graduate school at the University of Nebraska. His fingerprints appear throughout, sometimes conspicuously. Three anonymous reviewers wrote the best (thorough, thoughtful, and helpful) batch of reader reports I’ve ever received. I appreciate their support and excellent suggestions. I couldn’t make all of them work, but I tried. Despite my best efforts and all the help I received, some problems will probably surface in the final work. Those are my fault.

Closer to home, thanks to my parents, Ned and Joyce Kerstetter, teachers who instilled in me a love of learning and gave me so much more that I’ll just let it go at that. My brother, Chad, helped keep me on track with his wicked sense of humor. At home, I could not have done this without the patient love and support of my wife, Holly McFarland, and the energy, wonder, and love brought to our home by Nora and Leah.

Introduction

This book examines the religious history of the trans-Mississippi United States for its own sake and to supplement topics neglected or only briefly mentioned by most textbook histories of the American West. As I worked on this project, two discoveries surprised me and inspired me. First, many histories of the West say little about religion’s roles in the region. This situation afflicts much of what has been written about US history. Two historians concluded in 2010 that, “Religion is everywhere in history, but nowhere in mainstream historiography.” Second, many surveys of US religious history say next to nothing about what happened in the West. A reader who relied on only those books for knowledge of US religious history might conclude the United States extended from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Appalachian Mountains or, in expansive passages, to Chicago. People have lived west of the Appalachians (and west of Chicago) for thousands of years. Those people held religious beliefs and they participated in important events that touched the history of religion on regional, national, and transnational stages. This book delivers some of those stories and enriches our understanding of the American West by placing religion at center stage.