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Practicing Protestants Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965

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ISBN-10: 0801883628

ISBN-13: 9780801883620

Edition: 2006

Authors: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Leigh E. Schmidt, Mark R. Valeri

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This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from missionary tactics to African American ritual performance, these essays provide a unique historical perspective on how Protestants have lived their faith within and outside of the church and how practice has formed their identities and beliefs. Each chapter focuses on a different practice…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 7/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Leigh E. Schmidt is Edward Mallinckrodt University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and is affiliated with the Center on Religion and Politics. He is author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality.Sally M. Promey is Professor of American Studies, Religion, and Visual Culture at Yale University, where she is also Deputy Director of the Institute of Sacred Music. She is author of Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library.