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Modern Christianity to 1900 / Amanda Porterfield, editor.
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- Book
- Series:
- People's history of Christianity ; v. 6.
- A people's history of Christianity ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Modern period, 1500-.
- Church history.
- Church history--Modern period.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Modern Christianity to nineteen hundred
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- After the Reformation, Christians found themselves living amidst wars of religion, Enlightenment, and colonization. The conflictive and fast-changing scene in which Christians of all allegiances were thrown yielded vast and distinct new challenges and venues to ordinary Christians. The spread of Christianity to lands outside Europe and the Middle East, the new pluralism within Christianity, the incredible transformation of the Americas and of Christianity there-all these provoked new relations among Protestants and Catholics, women and men, master and slave. In this volume, the way in which lived Christianity and its practices were altered by these global changes is probed by an illustrious group of scholars led by distinguished historian Amanda Porterfield. With illustrations, bibliographies, and a color gallery, this volume engagingly highlights how the local daily lives of Christians creatively and often surprisingly intersected with the global forces we know as modernity.
- Contents:
- Expansion and change / Amanda Porterfield
- New ways of confronting death / Carlos Eire
- Controlling and Christianizing sex / Peter Gardella
- Economic change and emotional life / John Corrigan
- Vulgar science / Ronald L. Numbers
- Tropical Christianity in Brazil / H.B. Cavalcanti
- Iconic piety in Russia / Vera Shevzov
- Religious experiences in New England / Douglas L. Winiarski
- Domestic piety in New England / Ava Chamberlain
- Gendering Christianity / Marilyn J. Westercamp
- Slave Christianity / Charles H. Lippy
- Spirituals and the quest for freedom / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-342) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780800634162
- 0800634160
- OCLC:
- 85443981
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