| Description |
1 online resource (x, 222 pages) |
| Series |
Religion and American culture |
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Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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| Contents |
Catholic distinctiveness and the challenge of American denominationalism / Amy Koehlinger -- New directions on the congregational way / Margaret Bendroth -- Presbyterians in America : denominational history and the quest for identity / Sean Michael Lucas -- From the margin to the middle to somewhere in between : an overview of American Baptist historiography / Keith Harper -- "Everything arose just as the occasion offered" : defining Methodist identity through the history of Methodist polity / Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait -- Black Protestantism : a historiographical appraisal / Paul Harvey -- Mormon historiography / David J. Whittaker -- Interpreting American Pentecostal origins : retrospect and prospect / Randall J. Stephens -- "We're all evangelicals now" : the existential and backward historiography of twentieth-century evangelicalism / Barry Hankins |
| Summary |
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points the way for the next decade of scholarly effort |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sects -- United States -- History
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Christianity -- United States.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
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Christianity
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Sects
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139926
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harper, Keith, 1957-
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| ISBN |
9780817381080 |
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0817381082 |
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