Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England

Mark R Valeri

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut Calvinist minister... Lees meer

Race and Redemption in Puritan New England

Richard A Bailey

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in America
• As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "citty upon a hill." Living the... Lees meer

Tenacious of Their Liberties

James F Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in America
• Although the importance of Congregationalism in early Massachusetts has engaged historians' attention for generations, this study is the first to appr... Lees meer

Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods

Gerald R McDermott

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• This is a study of how American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) battled deist arguments about revelation and God's fairness to non-Christians. A... Lees meer

The Soul of Development

Amy L Sherman

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• Ever since Max Weber started an argument about the role of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's economic development, scholars have clashe... Lees meer

Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards

Douglas A Sweeney

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• Nathaniel Taylor was arguably the most influential and the most frequently misrepresented American theologian of his generation. While he claimed to b... Lees meer

The Origins of American Religious Nationalism

Sam Haselby

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in America
• Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protest... Lees meer

Some Wild Visions

Elizabeth Elkin Grammer

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preacher... Lees meer

Reimagining Denominationalism

Robert Bruce Mullin, Russell E Richey

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in America
• Denominationalism--that ''free market'' mode of organizing religious life which, some say, manages to combine traditional religious claims with a free... Lees meer

Fundamentalists in the City

Margaret Lamberts Bendroth

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• Fundamentalists in the City is a story of religious controversy and division, set within turn of the century and early twentieth-century Boston. It of... Lees meer

Transgressing the Bounds

Louise Breen

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "Antinomian" controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural ... Lees meer

To Walk the Earth Again

Christopher Trigg

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity... Lees meer

The Church on the World's Turf

Paul A Bramadat

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• Is it possible for conservative Protestant groups to survive in secular institutional settings? Here, Bramadat offers an ethnographic study of the Int... Lees meer

Black Zion

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in America
• This volume explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. In contrast to previ... Lees meer

Saints in Exile

Cheryl J Sanders

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in America
• Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecosta... Lees meer

Noah's Curse

Stephen R Ed Haynes

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in America
• "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries ... Lees meer

Houses Divided

Lucas Volkman

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question ... Lees meer

A Controversial Spirit

Philip N Mulder

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• A Controversial Spirit offers a new perspective on the origins and nature of southern evangelicalism. Most recent historians have focused on the diffe... Lees meer

Theologians of a New World Order

Heather A Warren, Heather a Warren

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• This book tells how a group of Protestant theologians forged a theology of international engagement for America in the 1930s and 40s, and how in doing... Lees meer

The Character of God

Thomas E Jenkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• Educated people have become bereft of sophisticated ways to develop their religious inclinations. A major reason for this is that theology has become ... Lees meer

The Revival of 1857-58

Kathryn Long

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• This book provides a fresh, in-depth examination of the Revival of 1857-58, a widespread religious awakening most famous for urban prayer meetings in ... Lees meer

Identifying the Image of God

Dan McKanan

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying... Lees meer

The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880

Ann Lee Bressler

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• In this volume Ann Lee Bressler offers the first cultural history of American Universalism and its central teaching -- the idea that an all-good and a... Lees meer

Standing Against the Whirlwind

Diana Hochstedt Butler

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in America
• Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A surprising revisionist a... Lees meer