Christopher H. Evans 
Histories of American Christianity [PDF ebook] 
An Introduction

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To tell the story of America is, in many ways, to tell the story of religion in America. At every point in its history, America was, and still is, religious–and diversely so. To understand how religion shaped America’s history is to trace the influence of America’s dominant faith tradition, Christianity. But American Christianity, like religion in America, is a wonderfully varied movement. In this comprehensive, eminently readable introduction, Christopher Evans maps the pluralism of American Christianity around its historic center, demonstrating the enduring role of Protestantism despite the wide assortment of distinctly American religious innovation.

In Histories of American Christianity, Evans thus narrates the intellectual history, chronicles the story of sectarian divisions, and explores how Christianity became so intertwined with and pervasive in public life. But Evans also shines fresh light on what has been omitted. Through the use of individual stories focusing on the traditionally marginalized–e.g., women, African Americans, and Latino/a descendants–Evans weaves together a tapestry of American-Christian orthodoxy and tradition over the centuries. What results is a readable and teachable volume, grounded in research and packed with critical reflection that chronicles America’s rich Christian history.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

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

Select Bibliography

Index of Names

Subject Index

O autorze

Christopher H. Evans is Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University School of Theology and is the author of several books, including Liberalism Without Illusions: Renewing an American Christian Tradition (2010). He lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

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