American denominational history : perspectives on the past, prospects for the future / edited by Keith Harper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harper, Keith, 1957-2025

Series:

Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Religion and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sects--United States--History.

Sects.

History.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Church history.

Christianity--United States.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, [Ala.] : University of Alabama Press, [2008]

Summary:

This book brings the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature to various important topics and groups in American religious history. The contributors carefully examine the fruitful, historiographic questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups. American Denominational History points the way for the next decade of scholarly effort.

Contents:

Catholic distinctiveness and the challenge of American denominationalism

New directions on the congregational way

Presbyterians in America : denominational history and the quest for identity

From the margin to the middle to somewhere in between : an overview of American Baptist historiography

"Everything arose just as the occasion offered" : defining Methodist identity through the history of Methodist polity

Black Protestantism : a historiographical appraisal

Mormon historiography

Interpreting American Pentecostal origins : retrospect and prospect

"We're all evangelicals now" : the existential and backward historiography of twentieth-century evangelicalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780817316327

0817316329

9780817355128

081735512X

9780817381080

0817381082

OCLC:

227002088