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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451903603321

Titolo

Practicing protestants [[electronic resource] ] : histories of Christian life in America, 1630-1965 / / edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Leigh E. Schmidt, Mark Valeri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8018-8932-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Lived religions

Altri autori (Persone)

Maffly-KippLaurie F. <1960->

SchmidtLeigh Eric

ValeriMark R

Disciplina

280/.40973

Soggetti

Christianity and culture - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Evangelical practice in Enlightenment New England, 1630-1800 -- Writing as Protestant practice : devotional diaries in early New England / Catherine Brekus -- Forgiveness : from the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards / Mark Valeri -- Part II: Mission, nation, and Christian practice, 1820-1940 -- Assembling bodies and souls : missionary practices on the Pacific frontier / Laurie Maffly-Kipp -- Honoring elders : practices of sagacity and deference in Ojibwe Christianity / Michael McNally -- Nurturing religious nationalism : Korean Americans in Hawaii / David K. Yoo -- Re-forming the church : preservation, renewal, and restoration in American Christian practice / Roberto Lint Sagarena -- Part III: Devotional practices and modern predicaments, 1880-1920 -- Acting faith : practices of religious healing in late-nineteenth-century Protestantism / Heather D. Curtis -- Observing the lives of the saints' : sanctification as practice in the Church of God in Christ / Anthea Butler -- The practice of prayer in a modern age : liberals, fundamentalists, and prayer in the early twentieth century / Rick Ostrander -- Part IV: Liberal Protestants and universalizing practices, 1850-1965 -- Cosmopolitan piety : sympathy, comparative



religions, and nineteenth-century liberalism / Leigh Schmidt -- The practice of dance for the future of Christianity : "eurythmic worship" in New York's roaring twenties / Tisa Wenger -- Taste cultures : the visual practice of liberal Protestantism / Sally Promey.