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
