Histories of American Christianity An Introduction

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ISBN: 9781602585454

ISBN-10: 1602585458

ISBN-13: 9781602585454

Edition: 2013

Authors: Christopher H. Evans

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The Christian church is a ubiquitous fixture of the American religious landscape. Even as the United States boasts the worlds most diverse religious population, its history and culturally unique heritage cannot be understood outside the bounds of the history of American Christianity. In Histories of American Christianity, Christopher H Evans delivers a chronological and thematic survey of the significant "Christianities" that have taken shape within the United States since its founding. Evans expertly traverses the broad scope of the American Christianities, highlighting the significant stories and individuals within both well-known traditions and sometimes marginalised communities. This…

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 415
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Constructing a Protestant Worldview, 1600-1800



American Puritanism Revisited



Unintended Diversity: The Growth of Colonial Christianity



The Great Awakening



The Revolutionary War and Religious Disestablishment



The Evangelical Empire and Its Critics, 1800-1865



Methodism and the Rise of Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Evangelicalism



Experimental Christianity



Conflicts of Twoness: Catholic and African American Christianities



The Perfection of Christian America: From Holiness to Civil War



American Christianity in Tumult, 1865-1920



Defending the Protestant Empire



Social Christianities and Social Gospels



Dispensationalism, Pentecostalism, and the Origins of Fundamentalism



American Christianity and Modernity, 1920-1965



Christian Realignments between the World Wars



Civil Religion, Popular Religion, and the Renewal of Social Christianity



The Restructuring of American Christianity, 1965-2009



The Parameters of Pluralism



Retraditioning-Again


Epilogue: Seeing the Future through the Past


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index of Names


Subject Index