American Denominational History

by Harper, Keith; Harrell, David Edwin, Jr.; Flynt, Wayne; Blumhofer, Edith L.

• ISBN13: 9780817355128
• ISBN10: 081735512X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-25
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

This book brings the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature to various important topics and groups in American religious history. The contributors carefully examine the fruitful, historiographic questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups. American Denominational History points the way for the next decade of scholarly effort. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Catholic Distinctiveness and the Challenge of American Denominationalism	p. 7
New Directions on the Congregational Way	p. 31
Presbyterians in America: Denominational History and the Quest for Identity	p. 50
From the Margin to the Middle to Somewhere In Between: An Overview of American Baptist Historiography	p. 71
"Everything Arose Just as the Occasion Offered": Defining Methodist Identity through the History of Methodist Polity	p. 95
Black Protestantism: A Historiographical Appraisal	p. 120
Mormon Historiography	p. 146
Interpreting American Pentecostal Origins: Retrospect and Prospect	p. 173
"We're All Evangelicals Now": The Existential and Backward Historiography of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism	p. 196
Contributors	p. 221
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