The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism

The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism
Author: William R. Hutchison
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 1992-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0822382288

This landmark study of American religion, recipient of the National Religious Book Award in 1976, is being brought back into print with an updated bibliography. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism traces the history of American Protestant thought from the early part of the nineteenth century to the present. William R. Hutchison deals especially with the "modernist" movement that flourished in the years around 1900, and with the colorful personalities and disputes associated with that movement.

The Old Religion in a New World

The Old Religion in a New World
Author: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802849489

A foremost historian of religion chronicles the arrival of Christianity in the New World, tracing the turning points in the development of the immigrant church which have led to today's distinctly American faith.

The Modern Temper

The Modern Temper
Author: Lynn Dumenil
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 0809069784

When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. "The Modern Temper "brings these many developments into sharp focus.

Eerdmans' Handbook to Christianity in America

Eerdmans' Handbook to Christianity in America
Author: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1983
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Essays that provide a history of the Christian church in the United States with biographical information on church leaders, the different organized churches, and popular Christian movements.

Souls for Sale

Souls for Sale
Author: Terry Lindvall
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-07-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1725293072

The beginning of the twentieth century evolved out of an era of Freethinking atheists and agnostics who challenged the Protestant hegemony of the day. Key among these mavericks was author and filmmaker Rupert Hughes, uncle to Howard Hughes. In 1922, Hughes published Souls for Sale, his wickedly playful satire of the Bible belt and Hollywood, offering a mischievous snapshot of the film industry as it struggled against a conservative Zeitgeist. The novel follows the prodigal adventures of a clergyman's daughter as she stumbles into the movie industry and finds it to be a new and liberating moral universe. Hughes's adaptation of his sly work challenged the religious hierarchy of his day, but ultimately fell by the wayside, even with the support of Hollywood icons like Eric von Stroheim and Charlie Chaplin. Souls for Sale offers a glimpse into the emerging Jazz age of moviemaking against the backdrop of a country moving from its traditional roots into the kinetic ways of Hollywood.

America's Religions

America's Religions
Author: Peter W. Williams
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 025207551X

A panoramic introduction to religion in America, newly revised and updated

Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity

Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity
Author: Elizabeth A. Foster
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2023-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512824976

In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift. While Catholicism and Protestantism have declined in their historic European strongholds, they have sustained explosive growth in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This demographic change has established Christians from the Global South as an increasingly dominant presence in modern Christian thought, culture, and politics. Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity unearths the roots of this development, charting the metamorphosis of Christian practice and institutions across five continents throughout the pivotal years of decolonization. The essays in this collection illustrate the diverse new ideas, rituals, and organizations created in the wake of Western imperialism's formal collapse and investigate how religious leaders, politicians, theologians, and lay people debated and shaped a new Christianity for a postcolonial world. Contributors argue that the collapse of colonialism and broader cultural challenges to Western power fostered new organizations, theologies, and political engagements across the world, ultimately setting Christianity on its current trajectory away from its colonial heritage. These essays interrogate decolonization's varied and conflicting impacts on global Christianity, while also providing a novel framework for rethinking decolonization's modern legacies. Taken together, this book charts the relationship between decolonization and Christianity on a truly global scale. Contributors: Joel Cabrita, Darcie Fontaine, Elizabeth A. Foster, Udi Greenberg, David Kirkpatrick, Eric Morier-Genoud, Phi-Vân Nguyen, Justin Reynolds, Sarah Shortall, Lydia Walker, Charlotte Walker-Said, Albert Wu, Gene Zubovich.

Religious Experience and the New Woman

Religious Experience and the New Woman
Author: Joanna Dean
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2007-01-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253112427

In Religious Experience and the New Woman, Joanna Dean traces the development of liberal spirituality in the early 20th century through the life and work of Lily Dougall (1858--1923), a New Woman novelist who became known as a religious essayist and Anglican modernist. Dean examines the connections between Dougall's marginal position as a woman intellectual and her experiential, combatively iconoclastic theology, and demonstrates that through her writing and mentoring, Dougall contributed to the shaping of modern spirituality. Lily Dougall described religious experience -- the sense of the presence of God -- as the "rock" of her theology. Dean observes the protean nature of this rock as Dougall moved from a submissive holiness faith, to a mystical Mauricean sense of the Kingdom of God, to the relational theology of personal idealism, and reveals how psychology, which appeared to provide scientific support for her religious beliefs, eventually threatened to undermine her experiential faith.

American Eras: Development of a nation, 1783-1815

American Eras: Development of a nation, 1783-1815
Author: Robert J. Allison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1997
Genre: America
ISBN:

Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, government and politics, and science and medicine from the colonial era onward.