The Poisoned Chalice

Jennifer L Woodruff Tait

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a ... Lees meer

O God of Players

Julie Byrne

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College--a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia--made history by winning the first ... Lees meer

Honoring Elders

Michael D McNally

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Like many Native Americans, Ojibwe people esteem the wisdom, authority, and religious significance of old age, but this respect does not come easily o... Lees meer

Torn at the Roots

Michael Staub

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• When Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. Th... Lees meer

To Do Justice

Randall C Jimerson

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Biography of a civil rights activist who worked tirelessly at the heart of two social and political revolutions A native Alabamian, Reverend Robert E.... Lees meer

Moral Geography

Amy DeRogatis

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Moral Geography traces the development of a moral basis for American expansionism, as Protestant missionaries, using biblical language and metaphors, ... Lees meer

Faith in Their Own Color

Craig Townsend

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip's Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of New York ... Lees meer

The Chautauqua Moment

Andrew Chamberlin Rieser

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• This book traces the rise and decline of what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "most American thing in America." The Chautauqua movement began in 18... Lees meer

Dixie Heretic

Tennant McWilliams

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings, ... Lees meer

Quest for a Christian America, 1800-1865

David Edwin Harrell

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• The definitive social history of the Disciples of Christ in the 19th century The Disciples of Christ, led by reformers such as Alexander Campbell and ... Lees meer

The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century

David Edwin Harrell

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• The story of one of this country's major religious movements is told through the spiritual odyssey of one of its prominent spokesmen. When Homer Haile... Lees meer

At Ease in Zion

Rufus B Spain

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Analyzes the Southern Baptist denomination's influence on southern culture during the 19th century First published in 1967, Rufus Spain's thorough inv... Lees meer

Sources of Division in the Disciples of Christ, 1865-1900

David Edwin Harrell

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• The definitive social history of the Disciples of Christ in the 19th century The Disciples of Christ, led by reformers such as Alexander Campbell and ... Lees meer

Show Us How You Do It

Edward J Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Marshall Keeble (1878-1968) was the premier evangelist in black Churches of Christ from 1931 until his death in 1968. Born and reared in middle Tennes... Lees meer

Uneasy in Babylon

Barry Hankins

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• The definitive account of how conservative Southern Baptists came to dominate the nation's largest Protestant denomination In 1979 a group of conserva... Lees meer

Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules

J Barry Vaughn

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Tells the story of how the Episcopal Church gained influence over Alabama's cultural, political, and economic arenas despite being a denominational mi... Lees meer

Breaking Bread

Mel Piehl

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• The social activism of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin who founded both a newspaper and a movement Lees meer

American Denominational History

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature Fruitful question... Lees meer

Recovering the Margins of American Religious History

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Recovering the Margins of American Religious History , a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harr... Lees meer

Wrestlin' Jacob

Erskine Clarke

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• An important introduction to the efforts of whites to evangelize African Americans in the antebellum South First published in 1979, Wrestlin' Jacob of... Lees meer

Dixie Heretic

Tennant McWilliams

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings, ... Lees meer

The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century

David Edwin Harrell

• Hardcover | Religion and American Culture
• Combining institutional history and biography, this text shows how the story of the Churches of Christ, a nondenominational movement of autonomous con... Lees meer

Sing Them Over Again to Me

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons. This work is a study of the importance of Protestant hymns in defining America and Amer... Lees meer

Uneasy in Babylon

Barry Hankins

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and American Culture
• The first book-length interpretation of the new conservative leaders of America's largest Protestant denomination. Uneasy in Babylon is based on exten... Lees meer