LEADER 04306nam 2200613 450 001 9910789285403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-75861-8 010 $a0-292-75860-X 024 7 $a10.7560/729100 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092449 035 $a(EBL)3443720 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133342 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11626633 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133342 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11158252 035 $a(PQKB)10802076 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443720 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10846033 035 $a(OCoLC)872377626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443720 035 $a(DE-B1597)588702 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944844 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292758605 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092449 100 $a20131119d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican Christianity $ethe continuing revolution /$fStephen Cox 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 1 $aDiscovering America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-72910-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1. Ruins or Foundations?""; ""2. Finding Oil""; ""3. The Mainstream and the Cataracts""; ""4. The Making of Revival""; ""5. Stars That Rise and Set""; ""6. The Low Wall of Separation""; ""7. Millions Now Living Will Never Die""; ""8. Hierarchies and Revolutions""; ""9. Sermons in Stone""; ""10. The Mortal Word""; ""11. Unfinished Cathedrals""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" 330 $aChristianity takes an astonishing variety of forms in America, from churches that cherish traditional modes of worship to evangelical churches and fellowships, Pentecostal churches, social-action churches, megachurches, and apocalyptic churches?congregations ministering to believers of diverse ethnicities, social classes, and sexual orientations. Nor is this diversity a recent phenomenon, despite many Americans? nostalgia for an undeviating ?faith of our fathers? in the days of yore. Rather, as Stephen Cox argues in this thought-provoking book, American Christianity is a revolution that is always happening, and always needs to happen. The old-time religion always has to be made new, and that is what Americans have been doing throughout their history. American Christianity is an engaging book, wide ranging and well informed, in touch with the living reality of America?s diverse traditions and with the surprising ways in which they have developed. Radical and unpredictable change, Cox argues, is one of the few dependable features of Christianity in America. He explores how both the Catholic Church and the mainline Protestant churches have evolved in ways that would make them seem alien to their adherents in past centuries. He traces the rise of uniquely American movements, from the Mormons to the Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah?s Witnesses, and brings to life the vivid personalities?Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Sunday, and many others?who have taken the gospel to the masses. He sheds new light on such issues as American Christians? intense but constantly changing political involvements, their controversial revisions in the style and substance of worship, and their chronic expectation that God is about to intervene conclusively in human life. Asserting that ?a church that doesn?t promise new beginnings can never prosper in America,? Cox demonstrates that American Christianity must be seen not as a sociological phenomenon but as the ever-changing story of individual people seeking their own connections with God, constantly reinventing their religion, making it more volatile, more colorful, and more fascinating. 410 0$aDiscovering America 606 $aChristianity$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history 615 0$aChristianity 676 $a277.3 700 $aCox$b Stephen D.$f1948-$0697039 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789285403321 996 $aAmerican Christianity$93795738 997 $aUNINA