American Christianities [electronic resource] : a history of dominance and diversity / edited by Catherine A. Brekus and W. Clark Gilpin.
Brekus, Catherine A.; Gilpin, W. Clark.
2011
BR515 .A48 2011eb
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American Christianities [electronic resource] : a history of dominance and diversity / edited by Catherine A. Brekus and W. Clark Gilpin.
ISBN
9780807869147 (electronic book)
9780807835159
9780807872130
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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English
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1 online resource (534 p.) : ill.
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BR515 .A48 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
277.3/08
Summary
From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended far beyond church pews into the wider culture. Yet, at the same time, Christians in the United States have disagreed sharply about the meaning of their shared tradition, and, divided by denominational affiliation, race, and ethnicity, they have taken stances on every side of contested public issues from slavery to women's rights. This volume of twenty-two original essays, contributed by a group of prominent thinkers in American religious studies, provides a sophisticated understanding of both the diversity and the alliances among Christianities in the United States and the influences that have shaped churches and the nation in reciprocal ways. American Christianities explores this paradoxical dynamic of dominance and diversity that are the true marks of a faith too often perceived as homogeneous and monolithic. -- Publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Brekus, Catherine A.
Gilpin, W. Clark.
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Part I. Christian diversity in America
Understanding Christian diversity in America / Catherine L. Albanese
The practices of Native American Christianities / Michael D. McNally
From the coercive to the liberative : Asian and Latino immigrants and Christianity in the United States / Timothy S. Lee
African American Christianity and the burden of race / Curtis J. Evans
Christians and non-Christians in the marketplace of American religion / Jonathan D. Sarna
Tensions within : the elusive quest for Christian cooperation / James B. Bennett
Part II. Practicing Christianity in America
Redeeming modernity : Christian theology in modern America / W. Clark Gilpin
Hearts and stones : material transformations and the stuff of Christian practice in the United States / Sally M. Promey
A contested legacy : interpreting, debating, and translating the Bible in America / David W. Kling
Space, time, and performance : constitutive components of American Christian worship / Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Spreading the gospel in Christian America / Edith L. Blumhofer
Part III. Christianity and American culture
The perils of prosperity : some historical reflections on Christianity, capitalism, and consumerism in America / Catherine A. Brekus
A wilderness condition : the captivity narrative as Christian literature / Kristina Bross
Science and Christianity in America : a limited partnership / Jon H. Roberts
"My homosexuality is getting worse every day" : Norman Vincent Peale, psychiatry, and the liberal Protestant response to same-sex desires in mid-twentieth-century America / Rebecca L. Davis
Christianity and the media : accommodation, contradiction, and transformation / Stewart M. Hoover
What is "American" about Christianity in the United States? / Mark A. Noll
Part IV. Christianity and the American nation
Christianity, national identity, and the contours of religious pluralism / Tracy Fessenden
Beyond church and sect : Christian movements for social reform / Dan McKanan
Shifting sacrifices : Christians, war, and peace in America / Jon Pahl
Women, Christianity, and the Constitution / Ann Braude
An enduring contest : American Christianities and the state / Kathleen Flake.

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