Practicing Protestants : histories of Christian life in America, 1630-1965
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Practicing Protestants : histories of Christian life in America, 1630-1965
（Lived religions / series editors, David D. Hall and Robert A. Orsi）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
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Description
This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from missionary tactics to African American ritual performance, these essays provide a unique historical perspective on how Protestants have lived their faith within and outside of the church and how practice has formed their identities and beliefs. Each chapter focuses on a different practice within a particular social and cultural context. The essays explore transformations in American religious culture from Puritan to Evangelical and Enlightenment sensibilities in New England, issues of mission, nationalism, and American empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, devotional practices in the flux of modern intellectual predicaments, and the claims of late-twentieth-century liberal Protestant pluralism.
Breaking new ground in ritual studies and cultural history, Practicing Protestants offers a distinctive history of American Protestant practice.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Puritan and Evangelical Practice in New England, 1630-1800
Chapter 1. Writing as a Protestant Practice: Devotional Diaries in Early New England
Chapter 2. Forgiveness: From the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards
Part II: Mission, Nation, and Christian Practice, 1820-1940
Chapter 3. Assembling Bodies and Souls: Missionary Practices on the Pacific Frontier
Chapter 4. Honoring Elders: Practices of Sagacity and Deference in Ojibwe Christianity
Chapter 5. Nurturing Religious Nationalism: Korean Americans in Hawaii
Chapter 6. Re-Forming the Church: Preservation, Renewal, and Restoration in American Christian Architecture in California
Part III: Devotional Practices and Modern Predicaments, 1880-1920
Chapter 7. "Acting Faith": Practices of Religious Healing in Late-Nineteenth-Century Protestantism
Chapter 8. Observing the Lives of the Saints: Sanctification as Practice in the Church of God in Christ
Chapter 9. The Practice of Prayer in a Modern Age: Liberals, Fundamentalists, and Prayer in the Early Twentieth Century
Part IV: Liberal Protestants and Universalizing Practices, 1850-1965
Chapter 10. Cosmopolitan Piety: Sympathy, Comparative Religions, and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism
Chapter 11. The Practice of Dance for the Future of Christianity: "Eurythmic Worship" in New York's Roaring Twenties
Chapter 12. Taste Cultures: The Visual Practice of Liberal Protestantism, 1940-1965
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
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