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Following the author's fieldwork in black Baptist churches in Texas, he retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses uncover striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and religious rituals in West and Central Africa.

The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize Eassy of the American Society of Church History. Based on original sources, it illuminates the social history of Albany, New York, seen as a case study to demonstrate the central role played by religion in the creation of American social life.

By the end of the 19th century, many in the emerging middle-class culture saw themselves as too busy to practice the rigorous devotions of their ancestors. In this book, Rick Ostrander explores the attempts of American Protestants to articulate a convincing and satisfying ethic of prayer in changing circumstances.

This text is an ethnographic study of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship group at McMaster University, who espouse fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible and the necessity of a personal relationship with Christ.

Comprising papers by such distinguished scholars as John Headley Brooke, James R. Moore, Ronald Numbers, and George Marsden, this collection shows that questions of science have been central to evangelical history in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada.

In this work, the author maintains that theology became boring because the depiction of God as a "character" became boring, fashioned according to theologians' notions of character, derived from contemporary literature. He considers why a romantic characterization of God was problematic.

Amanda Porterfield examines the Mount Holyoke Missionaries founder, Mary Lyon, and the missionary women trained by her. She focuses on how these Protestant women brought cultural change through their Protestant teachings to several parts of the world, particularly northwest Persia, Maharashtra in western India, and Natal in southeast Africa.

The opening of the ministry to women has created a new situation within Protestant denominations. This work studies the impact of these gender changes and includes essays on Episcopal theology and women's spirituality, the urban church, ageing and the church, women's organizations.

Challenging the traditional interpretation of the decline of the Congregationalists in the USA, this study overturns many generalizations about these aggressive frontier evangelists and refutes conventional wisdom about church growth and religious declension.

This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut minister noted chiefly for his role in the New Divinity - the influental theological movement that evolved from the writings of Jonathan Edwards.

Butler shows that, contrary to common belief, the nineteenth-century Episcopal Church contained a sizable evangelical party that was deeply indebted and closely related to both Anglican and early American interdenominational evangelicalism. Evangelical religion, she shows, actually helped shape the very identity of the Episcopal Church during its first century.

Rubin presents a history of `religious melancholy' among American evangelicals, focusing on the period 1740-1850.

This is an intellectual biography of a neglected figure in the history of theology in America, John Williamson Nevin. Nevin was a central figure in the so-called Mercerberg School of theology, which, during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, ran counter to the mainstream of Protestant thought, and was significantly influenced by German philosophy, theology, and history.

A new analysis and interpretation of the religious views of the nineteenth century American philosopher William James.