Religion Enters the Academy: The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America (George H. Shriver Lecture Series in Religion in American His): ... Shriver Lecture Religion in American History)

by JamesTurner (Author)

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  2012

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  Until about 1820, even learned Americans showed little interest in non-European religions a subject that had fascinated their counterparts in Europe since the end of the seventeenth century. Fostered especially by learned Protestant ministers, this new discipline focused on canonical texts the bibles of other great world religions.