This book is a follow-up to Thomas Bergler’s acclaimed work The Juvenilization of American Christianity, which documents how church youth ministries over the past several decades have contributed…
The first theological school established in New England was born out of the cultural and spiritual conflicts which reached their high point of intensity at the close of the eighteenth century and d…
Over the last thirty years African American voices and perspectives have become essential to the study of the various theological disciplines. Writing out of their particular position in the North …
At age 29, renee's future was incredibly bright. She was engaged and had a beautiful singing voice a thriving career as a music teacher, and a loving family. But then one Night a bizarre accident l…
In 1965 the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church promulgated a decree in which the fathers urged members of religious orders, both men and women, to renew their religious life by ret…
These excerpts from Muhlenberg's notebooks take you back to the colonial period with fascinating anecdotes and penetrating insights into the political, religious, and cultural realities of the time…
Page Smith, the distinguished American historian, in Rediscovering Christianity confronts the United States of the 1990s as a society fractured by the dissolution of the family, adrift in a sea of …
This book samples the rich variety of worship practices in American history to show how worship can be a fruitful subject for historians to study and, alternatively, how past case studies can enric…
Can the church regain its cultural influence? The church in America is losing ground. Unfortunately, our efforts to reverse this trend often seem to do more harm than good. In Joy for the World,…
Alice O'Connor chronicles a transformation in the study of poverty, from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to a detached, highly technical analysis of the …