Between the Times - The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960

Zusammenfassung During the first sixty years of the last century! the so-called mainline Protestant denominations in the USA were compelled to accommodate to the influences of diverse religions and growing secularization. Here twelve historians examine the American Protestant establishment and its response to the growing pluralism of the times. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: from Protestant to pluralist America; Part I. Introduction: 1. Protestantism as establishment William R. Hutchison; Part II. The Protestant Agenda: Old Business: 2. The pulpit and the pews Edwin S. Gaustad; 3. Ministry on the margin: Protestants and education Dorothy C. Bass; 4. Reaching out: mainline protestantism and the media Dennis N. Voskuil; Part III. The Protestant Agenda: Matters Arising: 5. Voice of many waters: church federation in the twentieth century Robert A. Schneider; 6. The reform establishment and the ambiguities of influence William McGuire King; Part IV. Outsiders and 'Junior Partners': 7. United and slighted: women as subordinated insiders Virginia Lieson Brereton; 8. An enduring distance: Black Americans and the establishment David W. Wills; 9. A wary collaboration: Jews, Catholics, and the Protestant Goodwill movement Benny Kraut; Part V. External Challenges: 10. Secularization: religion and the social sciences R. Laurence Moore; 11. A plural world: the Protestant awakening to world religions Grant Wacker; 12. The rise of the 'New Evangelicalism': shock and adjustment Mark Silk; Part VI. Conclusion: 13. Discovering America William R. Hutchison; Index.

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• Authors: William R. Hutchison, William R. (Harvard University Hutchison
• Assisted by: William R. Hutchison (Editor), Hutchison William R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.1990
• EAN: 9780521406017
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40601-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion; Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches