American Church History,9780687025442

American Church History

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ISBN13: 9780687025442
ISBN10: 0687025443
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-11-01
Publisher(s): Abingdon Pr
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Summary

This volume provides an introduction to the diverse role that Christianity has played in American history. The multiperspectival approach of the volume reflects not only the pluralistic nature of Christianity's role in American culture but also the breadth of interpretive methods used in the study of American religious history.

Table of Contents

General Introduction: Consideration of Essays in Historical Context and Current Scholarship 11(7)
For Further Reading 18(5)
PART I RELIGION AND CULTURE 23(76)
Essay 1 Religion, Revolution, and the Rise of Modern Nationalism: Reflections on the American Experiment
23(14)
Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Essay 2 Abraham Lincoln's "Last, Best Hope of Earth": The American Dream of Destiny and Democracy
37(12)
Sidney E. Mead
Essay 3 The Protestant Quest for a Christian America, 1830-1930
49(10)
Robert T. Handy
Essay 4 The Immigrants and Their Gods: A New Perspective in American Religious History
59(13)
Jay P. Dolan
Essay 5 The Great Awakening as Artifact: George Whitefield and the Construction of Intercolonial Revival, 1739-1745
72(12)
Frank Lambert
Essay 6 "A Church-Going People Are a Dress-Loving People": Clothes, Communication, and Religious Culture in Early America
84(15)
Leigh Eric Schmidt
PART II RELIGION AND ETHNICITY 99(66)
Essay 7 Ethnicity: The Skeleton of Religion in America
99(11)
Martin E. Marty
Essay 8 The Ohio Valley: Testing Ground for America's Experiment in Religious Pluralism
110(7)
Timothy L. Smith
Essay 9 Broken Churches, Broken Nation: Regional Religion and North-South Alienation in Antebellum America
117(11)
C.C. Goen
Essay 10 Mapping the World, Mapping the Race: The Negro Race History, 1874-1915
128(11)
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Essay 11 The Polish National Catholic Church: An Inquiry into Its Origins
139(12)
Warren C. Platt
Essay 12 Italian Immigrant Catholic Clergy and an Exception to the Rule: The Reverend Antonio Demo, Our Lady of Pompei, Greenwich Village, 1899-1933
151(14)
Mary Elizabeth Brown
PART III EXPLORING DIMENSIONS IN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT 165(78)
Essay 13 The Puritan Notion of the Covenant in Jonathan Edwards' Doctrine of Faith
165(8)
C. Conrad Cherry
Essay 14 Scottish Philosophy and American Theology
173(12)
Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Essay 15 Slavery and Theology: The Emergence of Black Christian Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America-
185(10)
Timothy L. Smith
Essay 16 The Social Gospel and Socialism: A Comparison of the Thought of Francis Greenwood Peabody, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch
195(12)
Jacob H. Dorn
Essay 17 Between Americanism and Modernism: John Zahm and Theistic Evolution
207(10)
R. Scott Appleby
Essay 18 Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter Between Christianity and Science
217(13)
David C. Lindberg
Ronald L. Numbers
Essay 19 Fundamentalism and Femininity: Points of Encounter Between Religious Conservatives and Women, 1919-1935
230(13)
Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
PART IV "MAINSTREAM" RELIGION 243(84)
Essay 20 From Coercion to Persuasion: Another Look at the Rise of Religious Liberty and the Emergence of Denominationalism
243(13)
Sidney E. Mead
Essay 21 Religion and the American Experience: A Century After
256(11)
Catherine L. Albanese
Essay 22 Counting the Cost of Faith: America's Early Female Missionaries
267(13)
Ann White
Essay 23 The Puzzle of American Methodism
280(12)
Nathan O. Hatch
Essay 24 The Erosion of Postmillennialism in American Religious Thought, 1865-1925
292(11)
James H. Moorhead
Essay 25 An Emerging Protestant Establishment: Religious Affiliation and Public Power on the Urban Frontier in Miami, 1896-1904
303(11)
Thomas A. Tweed
Essay 26 Independent Baptists: From Sectarian Minority to "Moral Majority"
314(13)
Bill J. Leonard
PART V ALTERNATIVES IN RELIGION 327(74)
Essay 27 Anne Hutchinson, Sectarian Mysticism, and the Puritan Order
327(10)
Marilyn J. Westerkamp
Essay 28 Female Ministry in the Thought and Work of Catherine Booth
337(9)
Norman H. Murdoch
Essay 29 The Social Sources of Mormonism
346(12)
Mario S. DePillis
Essay 30 From Millerism to Seventh-Day Adventism: "Boundlessness to Consolidation"
358(11)
Jonathan Butler
Essay 31 Visions of Glory: The Place of the Azusa Street Revival in Pentecostal History
369(11)
Joe Creech
Essay 32 Physic and Metaphysic in Nineteenth-Century America: Medical Sectarians and Religious Healing
380(10)
Catherine L. Albanese
Essay 33 Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929-1942
390(11)
Joel Carpenter
Index 401

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