Protestants in practice
Subtitle: histories of the Christian life in America
By: edited by Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Leigh Schmidt, and Mark Valeri.
Contributors: Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F., 1960-; Schmidt, Leigh Eric.; Valeri, Mark R.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Christianity and culture -- United States -- History; United States -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Evangelical practice in Enlightenment New England, 1630-1800; title: Writing as Protestant practice : devotional diaries in early New England / Catherine Brekus; title: Forgiveness : from the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards / Mark Valeri; title: Part II: Mission, nation, and Christian practice, 1820-1940; title: Assembling bodies and souls : missionary practices on the Pacific frontier / Laurie Maffly-Kipp; title: Honoring elders : practices of sagacity and deference in Ojibwe Christianity  / Michael McNally; title: Nurturing religious nationalism : Korean Americans in Hawaii / David K. Yoo; title: Re-forming the church : preservation, renewal, and restoration in American  Christian practice / Roberto Lint Sagarena; title: Part III: Devotional practices and modern predicaments, 1880-1920; title: Acting faith : practices of religious healing in late-nineteenth-century Protestantism / Heather D. Curtis; title: Observing the lives of the saints' : sanctification as practice in the Church of God in Christ / Anthea Butler; title: The practice of prayer in a modern age : liberals, fundamentalists, and prayer in the early twentieth century / Rick Ostrander; title: Part IV: Liberal Protestants and universalizing practices, 1850-1965; title: Cosmopolitan piety : sympathy, comparative religions, and nineteenth-century liberalism / Leigh Schmidt; title: The practice of dance for the future of Christianity : "eurythmic worship" in New York's roaring twenties / Tisa Wenger; title: Taste cultures : the visual practice of liberal Protestantism / Sally Promey.