A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada / Mark A. Noll. [print]

I. Beginnings

1. European Expansion and Catholic Settlement

2. The English Reformation and the Puritans

3. Other Beginnings

II. Americanization

4. A Renewal of Piety, 1700-1750

5. The Churches in the Revolution

6. The Revolution in the Churches

III. The "Protestant Century"

7. Evangelical Mobilization

8. "Outsiders"

9. "Evangelical America," 1800-1865

10. His Dominion: "Christian Canada"

11. The Last Years of "Protestant America," 1865-1918

IV. The Emergence of Religious Pluralism

12. The Civil War

13. Non-White, Non-Protestant

14. Protestantism Shaken

15. Legacies of "Christian America"

V. Wilderness Once Again?

16. Turbulent Decades

17. Trends

18. Communities

19. Personalities, Leaders, Exemplars

20. American Christianity, Christianity in America

Includes bibliographies and index.

Roman Catholicism in New Spain -- Catholic Missions in New France -- The Emergence of a French-Catholic Society -- Roman Catholics in Maryland.

Puritanism in England -- New World Settlements -- Virginia -- Plymouth -- Puritan Life and Faith in America -- The Puritan Way -- Troubles -- Massachusetts and Virginia: A Comparison.

Alternatives to the Puritans -- Baptists in Early America -- Roger Williams -- Anne Hutchinson -- The Mosaic Takes Shape: Protestants outside of New England -- The Church of England -- The Quakers and Pennsylvania -- Presbyterians -- The Reformed and Continental Pietists -- Early Protestants in Canada -- Native Americans and Salves -- Native Americans -- Slaves.

The Early Eighteenth Century -- Solomon Stoddard and Cotton Mather -- Regional Developments -- The Great Awakening -- George Whitefield -- Jonathan Edwards -- In the Wake of Revivals -- Regional Effects -- The Great Awakening and the Baptists -- From English Puritanism to American Evangelicalism -- Preaching to the Under Classes -- The Awakening and America.

The Christian Patriots -- Republicanism -- Contributions to the Cause -- Loyalists -- Canadian Loyalism: Quebec -- Canadian Loyalism: The Maritimes -- Canadian Loyalism: Upper Canada -- Pacifists -- The Faith of the Founders -- The Religious Problem of Slavery in the American Revolution.

The Separation of Church and State -- Interpreting the First Amendment -- A New Era of Populist Democracy -- No Creed but the Bible -- The Effect of Populist Democracy -- Theology in an American Key -- The American Christian Enlightenment -- Theological Developments -- Countervailing Trends.

The Second Great Awakening -- The West -- The East -- First and Second Awakenings Compared -- Exemplary Leaders -- Francis Asbury and the Rise of Methodism -- Charles Finney and Modern Revivalism -- Mobilization of the Baptists -- A New Visibility for Women -- Phoebe Palmer and the Appeal of Holiness -- Public Life -- A Missionary Vision -- The Ambiguous Mission to the Cherokees -- Interpretations.

Millerites and Mormons -- The Adventism of William Miller -- The New Religion of Joseph Smith -- Alternative Communities -- African Americans Organize Their Own Churches -- Richard Allen and the African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Organization North, Perseverance South -- Roman Catholics -- John Carroll and an American Catholic Church -- Protestant Opposition -- Catholic Women -- Immigrant Protestants -- The Lutherans.

In Foreign Eyes -- Protestant Life in "Christian America" -- Converting the West and the South -- Mass Communications and Popular Thought -- Education -- A Flourishing of Protestant Theology -- The Heirs of Calvinism -- Mediating Theologies -- Politics.

The Canadian Political Context -- The Catholic Story -- The Triumph of Ultramontanism in Quebec -- Catholicism beyond Quebec and Protestant-Catholic Hostility -- The Meaning of Catholic-Protestant Tension -- The Protestant Story in the Atlantic Provinces -- The Protestant Story in Ontario and the West -- A Confluence of Opposites -- Between Britain and America -- Adjustments after 1867 -- The Rise and Limits of Protestant Ecclesiastical Nationalism.

Evangelists at Home and Abroad -- Dwight L. Moody -- Missionary Entrepreneurs -- American Protestants to the Ends of the Earth -- The Moral Reform of Society -- Prohibition -- The Culmination of Protestant Politics -- William Jennings Bryan -- Woodrow Wilson -- The Cities and the Social Gosepl -- The Ecumenical Movement and World War I.

The Civil War as a Religious War -- Christian Activity during the Conflict -- Abraham Lincoln -- The Civil War as Turning Point -- Abolition -- Opening the West -- Republican Virtue -- Civil Religion.

African Americans in Control of Their Destinies -- Denominational Initiatives -- Other Institutions -- Church and Society -- The Orthodox in America -- Catholics -- An Immigrant Church -- Journey to Rome: Isaac Hecker -- "Americanism" -- Growing Maturity -- A Changing Landscape.

Intellectual Challenges -- The New University -- Historical Criticism of Scripture -- Moderates, Mediators, and the Unexpected -- The Disruption of Protestant Theology -- Modernism -- Fundamentalism and hte Rise of Dispensational Theology -- Holiness -- Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy -- Pentecostalism: A New Departure.

A Puritan-Evangelical Politics, with Alternatives -- Alternatives: Separation, Natural Law, Canada -- America's Book, America's Icon: The Bible -- Printing, Translating, and Distributing -- A Cultural Force -- A Literature Preoccupied with God -- Literarture of Christian Moral Purpose -- Christianity in the Literary Canon.

Legacies of the 1920s -- Hard Times, 1929-1939 -- War and Its Aftermath, 139-1960 -- Revolutions and Counterrevolutions, 1960-1980 -- The Second Vatican Council -- A Quiet Revolution -- Charismatic Renewal -- State in Church -- The Reagan Era and Beyond.

The Christian Map in the 1920s -- Rises and Declines since World War II -- Mostly White Denominations -- Black Denominations -- Canada -- Regional Strengths -- General Trends.

European Ethnic Enclaves -- Dutch Protestants -- Lutherans -- The Southern Baptist Convention -- Hispanics -- African Americans.

Personalities, Leaders -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen -- Billy Graham -- A Public Role for Women -- Aimee Semple McPherson -- Dorothy Day -- Mahalia Jackson -- Flannery O'Connor -- Catherine Marshall -- Personalities of Theology -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- H. Richard Niebuhr.

Twentieth-Century Missions -- Ecumenism -- Making Sense of the Story -- Black and White -- The United States and Canada -- The Varying Pace (and Diverse Meanings) of Secularization -- Wilderness Once Again?.

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