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Zusatztext The interpretive essays gathered here constitute a significant contribution to the study of denominations....The present volume lays an indispensable groundwork from which to survey the changing landscape of Religion in America Informationen zum Autor Robert Bruce Mullin is Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning Professor of History and World Mission and Professor of Modern Anglican Studies in the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Russell E. Richey is William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Klappentext In a wide-ranging collection of articles, a distinguished set of commentators on American religion examine the denomination's past and present roles, its definable nature, and its evolution over time. Zusammenfassung In a wide-ranging collection of articles, a distinguished set of commentators on American religion examine the denomination's past and present roles, its definable nature, and its evolution over time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction Russell E. Richey and Robert Bruce Mullin I. Overviews The Death and Rebirth of Denominational History Henry Warner Bowden Denominational Studies in the Reshaping of American Religious History William R. Hutchinson The People as Well as the Prelates: A Social History of a Denomination Jay P. Dolan Denominationalism and the Black Church Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp Denominations and Denominationalism: An American Morphology Russell E. Richey The Question of Denominational Histories in the United States: Dead End or Creative Beginning? Charles H. Long II. Models Denominations: Who and What Are We Studying? Nancy T. Ammerman ''Have You Ever Prayed to Saint Jude?'': Reflections on Fieldwork in Catholic Chicago Robert A. Orsi Denominations as Bilingual Communities Robert Bruce Mullin Remembering, Recovering, and Inventing What Being the People of God Means: Reflections on Method in the Scholarly Writing of Denominational History Jan Shipps III. Case Studies Denominational History When Gender Is the Focus: Women in American Methodism Jean Mill Schmidt Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism in America: Is There an Alternative to Denominationalism? Marc Lee Raphael African Methodisms and the Rise of Black Denominationalism Will B. Gravely Presbyterians and the Mystique of Organizational Efficiency, 1870-1936 James H. Moorhead ''Denominational'' Colleges in Antebellum America? A Case Study of Presbyterians and Methodists in the South Bradley J. Longfield Denominational History as Public History: The Lutheran Case Christa R. Klein Index ...
