| Description |
1 online resource (513 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Introduction; 1 Studies of Religion in American Society: The State of the Art; 2 Narrating Puritanism; 3 "Christianizing the South"--Sketching a Synthesis; 4 "As Canadian as Possible Under the Circumstances": Reflections on the Study of Protestantism in North America; 5 God's Designs: The Literature of the Colonial Revivals of Religion, 1735-1760; 6 Religion and the American Revolution; 7 Protestantism, Voluntarism, and Personal Identity in Antebellum America; 8 Ethnicity and American Protestants: Collective Identity in the Mainstream; 9 Protestants and Economic Behavior |
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10. Protestant Success in the New American City, 1870-1920: The Anxious Secrets of Rev. Walter Laidlaw, Ph. D.11 The Spirit and the Flesh: Gender, Language, and Sexuality in American Protestantism; 12 From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions Since World War II; 13 Experience and Explanation in Twentieth-Century American Religious History; 14 On Jordan's Stormy |
| Summary |
The eighteen essays collected in this book had their origin in a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Christianity -- United States -- Congresses.
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Christianity
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Church history -- Congresses
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hart, D. G
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| ISBN |
9780198027201 |
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0198027206 |
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9780195104134 |
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0195104137 |
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