The Protestant Churches of America
Author : John A. Hardon
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Christian sects
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Author : John A. Hardon
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Christian sects
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Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1438140398
Examines the oldest Christian communion in the United States, the Protestant faith.
Author : Jerald C. Brauer
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Religion
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Author : Robert Baird
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Mormons
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Christian sects
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Author : Henry Farnham May
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 1949
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Randall Balmer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2005-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231507691
As America has become more pluralistic, Protestantism, with its long roots in American history and culture, has hardly remained static. This finely crafted portrait of a remarkably complex group of Christian denominations describes Protestantism's history, constituent subgroups and their activities, and the way in which its dialectic with American culture has shaped such facets of the wider society as healthcare, welfare, labor relations, gender roles, and political discourse. Part I provides an introduction to the religion's essential beliefs, a brief history, and a taxonomy of its primary American varieties. Part II shows the diversity of the tradition with vivid accounts of life and worship in a variety of mainline and evangelical churches. Part III explores the vexed relationship Protestantism maintains with critical social issues, including homosexuality, feminism, and social justice. The appendices include biographical sketches of notable Protestant leaders, a chronology, a glossary, and an annotated list of resources for further study.
Author : Eleanor Marian Heuver
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : Joseph Bottum
Publisher : Image
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0385521464
We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.
Author : Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2006-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801889324
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 within a particular social and cultural context. The essays explore transformations in American religious culture from Puritan to Evangelical and Enlightenment sensibilities in New England, issues of mission, nationalism, and American empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, devotional practices in the flux of modern intellectual predicaments, and the claims of late-twentieth-century liberal Protestant pluralism. Breaking new ground in ritual studies and cultural history, Practicing Protestants offers a distinctive history of American Protestant practice.