Histories of American Christianity

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Introduction

Part I

Constructing a Protestant Worldview, 1600-1800

1 American Puritanism Revisited

2 Unintended Diversity: The Growth of Colonial Christianity

3 The Great Awakening

4 The Revolutionary War and Religious Disestablishment

Part II

The Evangelical Empire and Its Critics, 1800-1865

5 Methodism and the Rise of Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Evangelicalism

6 Experimental Christianity

7 Conflicts of Twoness: Catholic and African American Christianities

8 The Perfection of Christian America: From Holiness to Civil War

Part III

American Christianity in Tumult, 1865-1920

9 Defending the Protestant Empire

10 Social Christianities and Social Gospels

11 Dispensationalism, Pentecostalism, and the Origins of Fundamentalism

Part IV

American Christianity and Modernity, 1920-1965

12 Christian Realignments between the World Wars

13 Civil Religion, Popular Religion, and the Renewal of Social Christianity

Part V

The Restructuring of American Christianity, 1965-2009

14 The Parameters of Pluralism

15 Retraditioning--Again

Epilogue: Seeing the Future through the Past

Notes

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Index of Names

Subject Index