American denominational history
Subtitle: perspectives on the past, prospects for the future
By: edited by Keith Harper.
Contributors: Harper, Keith, 1957-
Series: Religion and American culture
Publisher: Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780817316327; 9780817355128; 9780817381080
Subjects: Sects -- United States -- History; United States -- Church history; Christianity -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Catholic distinctiveness and the challenge of American denominationalism; title: New directions on the congregational way; title: Presbyterians in America : denominational history and the quest for identity; title: From the margin to the middle to somewhere in between : an overview of American Baptist historiography; title: "Everything arose just as the occasion offered" : defining Methodist identity through the history of Methodist polity; title: Black Protestantism : a historiographical appraisal; title: Mormon historiography; title: Interpreting American Pentecostal origins : retrospect and prospect; title: "We're all evangelicals now" : the existential and backward historiography of twentieth-century evangelicalism.