Histories of American Christianity : an introduction / Christopher H. Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Christopher Hodge, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Church history.

United States.

Church history.

Physical Description:

xi, 403 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Waco : Baylor University Press, [2013]

Summary:

To teil the story of America is, in many ways, to tell the story of religion in America. At every point in its history, America was, and still is, religious-and diversely so. To understand how religion shaped America's history is to trace the influence of America's dominant faith tradition, Christianity. In this comprehensive, eminently readable introduction, Christopher Evans maps the pluralism of American Christianity around its historic center, demonstrating the enduring role of Protestantism despite the variety of distinctly American religious innovation. Book jacket.

Contents:

American Puritanism revisited

Unintended diversity: the growth of colonial Christianity

The great awakening

The Revolutionary War and religious disestablishment

Methodism and the rise of early-nineteenth-century popular evangelicalism

Experimental Christianity

Conflicts of twoness: Catholic and African-American Christianities

The perfection of Christian America: from holiness to Civil War

Defending the Protestant empire

Social Christianities and social gospels

Dispensationalism, Pentecostalism, and the origins of fundamentalism

Christian realignments between the world wars

Civil religion, popular religion and the renewal of social Christianity

The parameters of pluralism

Retraditioning? again

Epilogue: seeing the future through the past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781602585454

1602585458

OCLC:

826015983