Reimagining Denominationalism
Interpretive Essays
Published on 26. January 2012
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336 pages
978-0-19-976745-8 (ISBN)
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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combine traditional religious claims with a free society in a peculiarly American way--is the subject of the previously unpublished papers in this collection. 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.
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The interpretive essays gathered here constitute a significant contribution to the study of denominations....The present volume lays an indispensable groundwork from which to survey the changing landscape of Religion in America * Reviews in Religion and Theology *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, theology, history, and history of religions
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-976745-8 (9780199767458)
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Persons
Robert Bruce Mullin is Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning Professor of History and World Mission and Professor of Modern Anglican Studies in the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Russell E. Richey is William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
Author
Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning Professor of History and World Mission and Professor of Modern Anglican StudiesSociety for the Promotion of Religion and Learning Professor of History and World Mission and Professor of Modern Anglican Studies, General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church
William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church HistoryWilliam R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Content
Contributors ; Introduction ; Russell E. Richey and Robert Bruce Mullin ; I. Overviews ; The Death and Rebirth of Denominational History ; Henry Warner Bowden ; Denominational Studies in the Reshaping of American Religious History ; William R. Hutchinson ; The People as Well as the Prelates: A Social History of a Denomination ; Jay P. Dolan ; Denominationalism and the Black Church ; Laurie F. 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 ; II. Models ; 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 ; III. Case Studies ; Denominational History When Gender Is the Focus: Women in American Methodism ; Jean Mill 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 ; Index