Protestantism in America / Randall Balmer and Lauren F. Winner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balmer, Randall Herbert.

Contributor:

Winner, Lauren F.

Series:

Columbia contemporary American religion series

The Columbia contemporary American religion series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestant churches--United States.

Protestant churches.

Protestantism.

United States.

United States--Church history.

Church history.

Protestantism--United States.

Local Subjects:

United States--Church history.

Physical Description:

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Sima Qian (c. 100 B.C.E.) Was China's first historian, with the title of Grand Astrologer at the court of Emperor Wu during the Han dynasty. His Ship (published for Columbia in a translation by Burton Watson as Records of the Grand Historian) has been an enormously influential resource to historians, literary scholars, philosophers, and many others seeking an understanding of early Chinese history. In "Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo," Grant Hardy presents convincing evidence that the Shiji is quite unlike such Western counterparts as the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, for, Hardy argues, Sima Qian's work seeks not only to represent but to influence the world in a manner based on dynastic concepts of sageliness and Confucian order.

Although many scholars have sought close parallels between Sima Qian and the Greek historians -- either criticizing the work as if Western model of historical interpretation could be used as a template to read it or overemphasizing its "objectivity" to align it with these models -- Hardy contends that the Chinese historian never intended to produce a consistent, closed interpretation of the past Instead he sought to represent the open-endedness of the world around him.

Contents:

Introduction: Easter Sunday 1

Chapter 1 Protestantism in America 11

Chapter 2 A Brief History of Protestantism in America 37

Chapter 3 The Varieties of Protestantism in America 69

Chapter 4 Williston Federated Church 91

Chapter 5 Abyssinian Baptist Church 101

Chapter 6 New Life Family Fellowship 110

Part 3 Challenges

Chapter 7 Protestants and Feminism 121

Chapter 8 Protestants and Homosexuality 149

Chapter 9 Protestants and Social Justice 179

Conclusion: The Promise of Protestantism in the Twenty-first Century 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-269) and index.

ISBN:

0231111304

OCLC:

49226269