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Reimagining denominationalism : interpretive essays
- Title
- Reimagining denominationalism : interpretive essays / edited by Robert Bruce Mullin, Russell E. Richey.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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- Description
- x, 326 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Denominationalism - that "free market" mode of organizing religious life which, some say, manages to combine traditional religious claims with a free society in a peculiarly American way - is the subject of this collection of previously unpublished papers.
- No institution, the editors argue, is as crucial for the understanding of American religious life, yet so much in need of reassessment as the denomination. 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. The study of denominations, the authors show, sheds light on broader understandings of American religious and cultural life.
- The contributors - scholars of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Mormon, and African-American traditions - explore the state and history of denominational studies in America, suggesting new models and approaches drawn from anthropology, sociology, theology, history, and history of religions. They offer provocative case studies that reimagine denominational studies.
- Series Statement
- Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
- Uniform Title
- Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Russell E. Richey and Robert Bruce Mullin -- The Death and Rebirth of Denominational History / Henry Warner Bowden -- Denominational Studies in the Reshaping of American Religious History / William R. Hutchison -- The People as Well as the Prelates: A Social History of a Denomination / Jay P. Dolan -- Denominationalism and the Black Church / Laurie E. 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 -- 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.
- Denominational History When Gender Is the Focus: Women in American Methodism / Jean Miller 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.
- ISBN
- 019508778X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 93031858
- OCLC
- 28723294
- ocm28723294
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries