Charles S. Braden
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American professor of religious studies
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Religious Studies
Charles S. Braden's Degrees
- PhD Religious Studies University of Chicago
- Masters Religious Studies University of Chicago
- Bachelors Religious Studies University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Samuel Braden was Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Literature of Religions at Northwestern University. He joined the faculty in 1926 and held the professorship from 1943; he was awarded emeritus status in 1954. Braden became known in particular for the study of new religious movements and world religions. His Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought remains an important history of the New Thought family of NRMs.
Charles S. Braden's Published Works
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- Islam in America (1959) (113)
- The positive thinkers (1965) (45)
- Christian Science To-Day: Power, Policy, Practice@@@Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought (1966) (27)
- Religious Aspects of the Conquest of Mexico (1930) (16)
- RE‐THINKING MISSIONS* (1933) (9)
- Spirits in rebellion (1963) (7)
- Why People are Religious—A Study in Religious Motivation (1947) (7)
- Christian Science Today: Power, Policy, Practice (1958) (6)
- The world's religions : a short history (1939) (5)
- These also believe : a study of modern American cults & minority religious movements (1949) (5)
- The Challenge of the Sects (1963) (3)
- Church and State in Spain (1934) (3)
- Early Church History (1950) (2)
- Modern tendencies in world religions (1933) (2)
- The Church and the World (1951) (1)
- The Novelist Discovers the Orient (1948) (1)
- How Liberal Christianity Conceives of Salvation (1937) (1)
- Study of spiritual healing in the churches (1954) (1)
- Jesus compared : a study of Jesus and other great founders of religions (1957) (1)
- Hindu Interpretations of the Bible and Jesus (1944) (1)
- Research Abstracts: THE HISTORY OF RELIGION (1952–1953) (1953) (0)
- Book Review:Bahai Leads out of the Labyrinth Ruth White (1945) (0)
- Varieties Of American Religion, The Goal Of Religion As Interpreted By Representative Exponents Of Seventeen Distinctive Types Of Religious Thought (1971) (0)
- Teaching Religion in War Time—After One Year (1943) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWSHISTORY OF RELIGION (1964) (0)
- The Vatican Council and All Christians. By Claud D. Nelson. New York: Association Press, 1962. 126 pp. $3.00 (1963) (0)
- The Bible in Contemporary Drama (1951) (0)
- HISTORY OF RELIGION (1954–1955) (1955) (0)
- Render Unto Caesar: The Flag-Salute Controversy. By David R. Manwaring. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. 320 pp. $5.50 (1964) (0)
- Research Abstracts: RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS (1948–1949) (1950) (0)
- Rome and Reunion. By Frederick C. Grant. New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1965. ix + 196 pp. $5.00 (1966) (0)
- Religion, Philosophy and Theology (1942) (0)
- JOHN R. MOTT, WORLD CITIZEN . By Basil Mathews. New York: Harper and Brothers. 469 pages. $3.00. (1934) (0)
- Alternative to Atomic Destruction (1949) (0)
- World Religions and World Community. By Robert Lawson Slater. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. 299 pp. $6.00 (1964) (0)
- The Church and Civilization, An Appraisal of the Church's Relations with Secular Cultures. By Jerome D'Souza, S.J. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1968. 191 pp. $4.50 (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Desire and the Universe. A Study of Religion John K. Shryock (1936) (0)
- The man of the month (1954) (0)
- Religion in Russia (1951) (0)
- Creeds in Competition: A Creative Force in American Culture. By Leo Pfeffer. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. x+175 pp. $3.00 (1960) (0)
- Enrollment Trends in Religion Courses (1948) (0)
- Religion in History (1944) (0)
- HISTORY OF RELIGION (1950–51) (1951) (0)
- Teaching the History of Religion (1949) (0)
- Man of Spain By Joseph H. Fichter. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. 349 pages. $2.50. (1941) (0)
- RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS (1946) (1948) (0)
- History of Religion (1945) (0)
- HISTORY OF RELIGIONS (1942) (0)
- The Great Religions of the Modern World . Edward J. Jurji. (1947) (0)
- STUDENTS AND MISSIONS TENTH QUADRENNIAL STUDENT VOLUNTEER CONVENTION (1928) (0)
- South Asian Politics and Religion. Edited by Donald E. Smith. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. 562 pp. $15.00 (1969) (0)
- Religion in Post-War Japan (1953) (0)
- ForumPROFESSOR BRADEN REPLIES (1950) (0)
- Catholicism. Edited by George Brantl. New York: George Braziller, 1961. 256 pp. $4.00 and Protestantism. Edited by J. Leslie Dunstan. New York: George Braziller, 1961. 255 pp. $4.00 (1963) (0)
- Faiths for the Few. By William J. Whalen. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1963. 201 pp. $3.75 (1964) (0)
- The Rush Hour of the Gods: A Study of New Religious Movements in Japan. By H. Neill McFarland. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1967. 267 pp. $5.95 (1967) (0)
- Islam in the National State. By Erwin I. J. Rosenthal. London: Cambridge University Press, 1966. 416 pp. $10.50 (1969) (0)
- Oriental Religion and Philosophy (1950) (0)
- CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND A NEW WORLD CULTURE . By Archibald G. Baker. Chicago: Willet Clark and Company, 1934. 322 pages. $2.00. (1934) (0)
- Religion and Philosophy (1941) (0)
- We Jews and Jesus. By Samuel Sandmel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. 164 pp. $5.00 (1966) (0)
- Some Present Day Religious Tendencies in China. (0)
- A World Faith (1941) (0)
- The Sects (1948) (0)
- The Black Muslims in America. By C. Eric Lincoln. Boston: Beacon Press, 1961. 276 pp. $4.95 (1962) (0)
- Research in the History of Religions 1947–1948 (1949) (0)
- The Great Tax Fraud. By Martin A. Larson. New York: Devin-Adair, 1968. 326 pp. $5.95 (1969) (0)
- Book Review:Drawing-Room Conversion: A Sociological Account of the Oxford Group Movement Allan W. Eister (1950) (0)
- The Christian Encounter with World Religions (1965) (0)
- Varieties of American religion (1936) (0)
- Latourette's Expansion of Christianity (1945) (0)
- Student Volunteer Quadrennial at Buffalo (1932) (0)
- Jews and Americans. By Irving Malin. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. 193 pages. $4.50 and The Search for Jewish Identity in America. By Stuart E. Rosenberg. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1965. 300 pp. $1.45 paper (1967) (0)
- Reviews of current books (1953) (0)
- AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN RELIGION (1938) (0)
- III THE ROLE OF Emotion In Religious Education (1947) (0)
- Christian-Jewish Relations Today (1945) (0)
- RELIGION AND MENTAL HEALTH (1952) (0)
- Spiritual Healing (1923) (0)
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