Practicing Protestants

Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965

By: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp (Editor), Leigh E. Schmidt (Editor), Mark Valeri (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 October 2006

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This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment.

Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from missionary tactics to African American ritual performance, these essays provide a unique historical perspective on how Protestants have lived their faith within and outside of the church and how practice has formed their identities and beliefs. Each chapter focuses on a different practice within a particular social and cultural context. The essays explore transformations in American religious culture from Puritan to Evangelical and Enlightenment sensibilities in New England, issues of mission, nationalism, and American empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, devotional practices in the flux of modern intellectual predicaments, and the claims of late-twentieth-century liberal Protestant pluralism.

Breaking new ground in ritual studies and cultural history, Practicing Protestants offers a distinctive history of American Protestant practice.

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""A very readable and theoretically astute collection of essays that brings to light valuable conclusions drawn from original research. Readers will really appreciate the value of this volume for teaching and research.""

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Puritan and evangelical practice in New England, 1630-1800
Writing as a Protestant practice : devotional diaries in early New England	p. 19
Forgiveness : from the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards	p. 35
Mission, nation, and Christian practice, 1820-19240
Assembling bodies and souls : missionary practices on the Pacific frontier	p. 51
Honoring elders : practices of sagacity and deference in Ojibwe Christianity	p. 77
Nurturing religious nationalism : Korean Americans in Hawaii	p. 100
Re-forming the church : preservation, renewal, and restoration in American Christian architecture in California	p. 118
Devotional practices and modern predicaments, 1880-1920
"Acting faith" : practices of religious healing in late-nineteenth-century Protestantism	p. 137
Observing the lives of the saints : sanctification as practice in the Church of God in Christ	p. 159
The practice of prayer in a modern age : liberals, fundamentalists, and prayer in the early twentieth century	p. 177
Liberal Protestants and universalizing practices, 1850-1965
Cosmopolitan piety : sympathy, comparative religions, and nineteenth-century liberalism	p. 199
The practice of dance for the future of Christianity : "eurythmic worship" in New York's Roaring Twenties	p. 222
Taste cultures : the visual practice of liberal Protestantism, 1940-1965	p. 250
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