TY - BOOK AU - Callahan,Richard J. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - New territories, new perspectives: the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase AV - BR525 .N49 2008eb U1 - 200.973/09034 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Columbia, Mo. PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Louisiana Purchase KW - United States KW - Church history KW - 19th century KW - History KW - 1801-1809 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: A reorienting view from the center of the country / by Richard J. Callahan, Jr. -- The religious landscape of the Louisiana Purchase / by Peter W. Williams -- Conflicting destinies : religion, sex, and violence in the Louisiana Purchase / by Amanda Porterfield -- Wide open spaces : the trail of tears, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and gaps in the national memory / by Michael J. Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. Lawless -- Vodou purchase : the Louisiana Purchase in the Caribbean world / by Paul Christopher Johnson -- Spirituality and resistance among African-Creoles / by John Stewart -- New Orleans as an American city : origins, exchanges, materialities, and religion / by Charles H. Long; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "Marking the first study to take the Louisiana Purchase as the focal point for considering development of American religious history, this collection of essays takes up the religious history of the region including perspectives from New Orleans and the Caribbean and the roots of Pentecostalism and Vodou"--Provided by publisher UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10277762 ER -