New directions in American religious history / edited by Harry S. Stout, D.G. Hart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stout, Harry S., editor.

Hart, D. G. (Darryl G.), editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--United States--Congresses.

Christianity.

United States--Church history--Congresses.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These essays had their origin in a conference of the same title held in October 1993. Scholars reflect on their specialities in American religious history in ways that summarise where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Studies of Religion in American Society: The State of the Art; 2 Narrating Puritanism; 3 ""Christianizing the South""-Sketching a Synthesis; 4 ""As Canadian as Possible Under the Circumstances"": Reflections on the Study of Protestantism in North America; 5 God's Designs: The Literature of the Colonial Revivals of Religion, 1735-1760; 6 Religion and the American Revolution; 7 Protestantism, Voluntarism, and Personal Identity in Antebellum America; 8 Ethnicity and American Protestants: Collective Identity in the Mainstream; 9 Protestants and Economic Behavior

10. Protestant Success in the New American City, 1870-1920: The Anxious Secrets of Rev. Walter Laidlaw, Ph.D.; 11 The Spirit and the Flesh: Gender, Language, and Sexuality in American Protestantism; 12 From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions Since World War II; 13 Experience and Explanation in Twentieth-Century American Religious History; 14 On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Margins, Center, and Bridges in African American Religious History; 15 Recent American Catholic Historiography: New Directions in Religious History

16 Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Public Culture in the Twentieth Century; AFTERWORD; 17 Later Stages of the Recovery of American Religious History

Notes:

Proceedings 'from of a conference on "New Directions in American Religious History" held at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wis., Oct. 21-23, 1993' - preface.

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

0-19-774022-7

0-585-30487-4

1-280-45361-3

0-19-802720-6

OCLC:

437173299