American Mainline Religion

American Mainline Religion
Author: Wade Clark Roof
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780813512167

Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney argue that a new voluntarism is slowly eroding the old social and economic boundaries that once defined and separated religious groups and is opening new cleavages along moral and life-style lines. Nowhere has the impact of these changes been more profoundly felt than by the often-overlooked religious communities of the American center, or mainline--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. "American Mainline Religion" provides a new "mapping" of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. Going beyond the headlines in daily newspapers, Roof and McKinney document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated and public-minded Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism as a religious and cultural force.

Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878-1978

Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878-1978
Author: Taylor Murray
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2022-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725260719

As the first single-volume work to present a national picture of Baptist engagement with the fundamentalist movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism fills an important gap in the historiography. It explores the contributions of well-known fundamentalists, such as T. T. Shields, William “Bible Bill” Aberhart, and J. J. Sidey, while also introducing the reader to several lesser-known figures, including Joshua Denovan, E. J. Stobo, and T. A. Meister. Together, these studies demonstrate the diversity of the fundamentalist movement as it emerged and developed across Canada. By drawing on material from across the country, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism addresses old themes in new ways—and, in the process, raises a variety of questions and possibilities for new avenues of study.

Christianity in China

Christianity in China
Author: Wu Xiaoxin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2211
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315493993

A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.