New directions in American religious history /

New directions in American religious history / [print] edited by Harry S. Stout, D.G. Hart. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)1997. - ix, 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 21-23, 1993 in Racine, Wisconsin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Studies of religion in American society: the state of the art Narrating Puritanism "Christianizing the South"-sketching a synthesis "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances": reflections on the study of Protestantism in North America God's designs: the literature of the colonial revivals of religion, 1735-1760 Religion and the American Revolution Protestantism, voluntarism, and personal identity in antebellum America Ethnicity and American Protestants: Collective identity in the mainstream Protestants and economic behavior Protestant success in New American City, 1870-1920: The Anxious secrets of Rev. Walter Laidlaw, PHD. The spirit and the flesh: Gender, language, and sexuality in American Protestantism From missions to mission to beyond missions: the historiography of American Protestant Foreign missions since World War II Experience and explanation in twentieth century American religious history On Jordan's stormy banks: margins, center, and bridges in African American religious history Recent American Catholic historiography: New direction in Religious history Jewish intellectuals and the de-Christianization of American public culture in the twentieth century Later stages of the recovery of American religious history Stout and Taylor, Jr. -- Hall -- Mathews -- Airhart -- Guelzo -- Wood -- Howe -- Higham -- Wuthnow and Scott / -- Butler -- Juster -- Robert -- Wightman -- Weisenfeld -- Carey -- Hollinger -- Loveland.



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