American Congregations, Volume 1 Portraits of Twelve Religious Communities

Name: American Congregations, Volume 1 Portraits of Twelve Religious Communities
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ISBN: 9780226901862

ISBN-10: 0226901866

ISBN-13: 9780226901862

Edition: 1994

Authors: James P. Wind, James W. Lewis

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American Congregations, Volume 1:Portraits of Twelve Religious Communitieschronicles the founding, growth, and development of congregations that represent the diverse and complex reality of American local religious cultures. Some, like Center Church in New Haven, trace their stories back to colonial times. Others, like the Swaminarayan Hindu temple in suburban Chicago, are recent attempts to create local religious worlds. Ranging from congregations of Lebanese Muslims in Northern Canada to Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, the essays convey the distinctive character of each congregation and provide vivid evidence of the importance of congregations in daily life. "This study refreshingly…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 719
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 2.354
Language: English



Preface


Introduction




A New England Congregation: Center Church, New Haven, 1638-1989




""A Special Feeling of Closeness"": Mt. Hebron Baptist Church, Leeds




From Synagogue-Community to Citadel of Reform: The History of




A Social History of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore: The House of God and