TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harper,Keith
TI  - American denominational history: perspectives on the past, prospects for the future 
T2  - Religion and American culture
SN  - 9780817381080
AV  - BR516.5 .A425 2008
U1  - 280.0973 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Tuscaloosa [Ala.]
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Sects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Sectes
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Denominations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
KW  - Histoire religieuse
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Catholic distinctiveness and the challenge of American denominationalism / Amy Koehlinger -- New directions on the congregational way / Margaret Bendroth -- Presbyterians in America : denominational history and the quest for identity / Sean Michael Lucas -- From the margin to the middle to somewhere in between : an overview of American Baptist historiography / Keith Harper -- "Everything arose just as the occasion offered" : defining Methodist identity through the history of Methodist polity / Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait -- Black Protestantism : a historiographical appraisal / Paul Harvey -- Mormon historiography / David J. Whittaker -- Interpreting American Pentecostal origins : retrospect and prospect / Randall J. Stephens -- "We're all evangelicals now" : the existential and backward historiography of twentieth-century evangelicalism / Barry Hankins; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points the way for the next decade of scholarly effort
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