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In particular, Cashdollar is to be praised for documenting and exploring significant changes such as from church discipline to pastoral counseling and from piety to fellowship. Timothy Larsen, Journal of Religious History

Cashdollar's survey of congregational life manages to be both systematic and engaging, providing an impressive weight of evidence for his generalizations without burying the reader in a surfeit of detail. --A. Gregory Schneider, Journal of American History

Cashdollar wisely retains the transatlantic focus of his previous work, showing how Reformed Christians traversed national boundaries while keeping their religious identities intact. For nineteenth-century religious history at the congregational level, A Spiritual Home is an essential starting point. --Religious Studies Review Charles Cashdollar has written a fascinating book from a refreshingly different perspective.Cashdollar's book is a clearly written and impressively researched contribution to the literature on Anglo-American religious life in the Victorian era. --Gillis J. Harp, Ecclesiastical History A wonderful book on a neglected subject. Cashdollar provides a richly textured picture, offering insight into the workings of Protestant congregational life. He makes his case in a uniquely thorough and altogether engaging manner. --Anne C. Rose, The Pennsylvania State University In particular, Cashdollar is to be praised for documenting and exploring significant changes such as from church discipline to pastoral counseling and from piety to fellowship. --Timothy Larsen, Journal of Religious History Cashdollar's survey of congregational life manages to be both systematic and engaging, providing an impressive weight of evidence for his generalizations without burying the reader in a surfeit of detail. --A. Gregory Schneider, Journal of American History Cashdollar wisely retains the transatlantic focus of his previous work, showing how Reformed Christians traversed national boundaries while keeping their religious identities intact. For nineteenth-century religious history at the congregational level, A Spiritual Home is an essential starting point. Religious Studies Review Charles Cashdollar has written a fascinating book from a refreshingly different perspective.Cashdollar s book is a clearly written and impressively researched contribution to the literature on Anglo-American religious life in the Victorian era. Gillis J. Harp, Ecclesiastical History A wonderful book on a neglected subject. Cashdollar provides a richly textured picture, offering insight into the workings of Protestant congregational life. He makes his case in a uniquely thorough and altogether engaging manner. Anne C. Rose, The Pennsylvania State University In particular, Cashdollar is to be praised for documenting and exploring significant changes such as from church discipline to pastoral counseling and from piety to fellowship. Timothy Larsen, Journal of Religious History Cashdollar s survey of congregational life manages to be both systematic and engaging, providing an impressive weight of evidence for his generalizations without burying the reader in a surfeit of detail. A. Gregory Schneider, Journal of American History In particular, Cashdollar is to be praised for documenting and exploring significant changes such as from church discipline to pastoral counseling and from piety to fellowship. --Timothy Larsen, Journal of Religious History Charles Cashdollar has written a fascinating book from a refreshingly different perspective.Cashdollar's book is a clearly written and impressively researched contribution to the literature on Anglo-American religious life in the Victorian era. --Gillis J. Harp, Ecclesiastical History Cashdollar wisely retains the transatlantic focus of his previous work, showing how Reformed Christians traversed national boundaries while keeping their religious identities intact. For nineteenth-century religious history at the congregational level, A Spiritual Home is an essential starting point. --Religious Studies Review Cashdollar's survey of congregational life manages to be both systematic and engaging, providing an impressive weight of evidence for his generalizations without burying the reader in a surfeit of detail. --A. Gregory Schneider, Journal of American History A wonderful book on a neglected subject. Cashdollar provides a richly textured picture, offering insight into the workings of Protestant congregational life. He makes his case in a uniquely thorough and altogether engaging manner. --Anne C. Rose, The Pennsylvania State University In particular, Cashdollar is to be praised for documenting and exploring significant changes such as from church discipline to pastoral counseling and from piety to fellowship. Timothy Larsen, Journal of Religious History Charles Cashdollar has written a fascinating book from a refreshingly different perspective.Cashdollar s book is a clearly written and impressively researched contribution to the literature on Anglo-American religious life in the Victorian era. Gillis J. Harp, Ecclesiastical History Cashdollar wisely retains the transatlantic focus of his previous work, showing how Reformed Christians traversed national boundaries while keeping their religious identities intact. For nineteenth-century religious history at the congregational level, A Spiritual Home is an essential starting point. Religious Studies Review Cashdollar s survey of congregational life manages to be both systematic and engaging, providing an impressive weight of evidence for his generalizations without burying the reader in a surfeit of detail. A. Gregory Schneider, Journal of American History A wonderful book on a neglected subject. Cashdollar provides a richly textured picture, offering insight into the workings of Protestant congregational life. He makes his case in a uniquely thorough and altogether engaging manner. Anne C. Rose, The Pennsylvania State University In particular, Cashdollar is to be praised for documenting and exploring significant changes such as from church discipline to pastoral counseling and from piety to fellowship. Timothy Larsen, Journal of Religious History Charles Cashdollar has written a fascinating book from a refreshingly different perspective.Cashdollar s book is a clearly written and impressively researched contribution to the literature on Anglo-American religious life in the Victorian era. Gillis J. Harp, Ecclesiastical History Cashdollar wisely retains the transatlantic focus of his previous work, showing how Reformed Christians traversed national boundaries while keeping their religious identities intact. For nineteenth-century religious history at the congregational level, A Spiritual Home is an essential starting point. Religious Studies Review Cashdollar s survey of congregational life manages to be both systematic and engaging, providing an impressive weight of evidence for his generalizations without burying the reader in a surfeit of detail. A. Gregory Schneider, Journal of American History A wonderful book on a neglected subject. Cashdollar provides a richly textured picture, offering insight into the workings of Protestant congregational life. He makes his case in a uniquely thorough and altogether engaging manner. Anne C. Rose, The Pennsylvania State University In particular, Cashdollar is to be praised for documenting and exploring significant changes such as from church discipline to pastoral counseling and from piety to fellowship. --Timothy Larsen, Journal of Religious History Charles Cashdollar has written a fascinating book from a refreshingly different perspective.Cashdollar's book is a clearly written and impressively researched contribution to the literature on Anglo-American religious life in the Victorian era. --Gillis J. Harp, Ecclesiastical History Cashdollar wisely retains the transatlantic focus of his previous work, showing how Reformed Christians traversed national boundaries while keeping their religious identities intact. For nineteenth-century religious history at the congregational level, A Spiritual Home is an essential starting point. --Religious Studies Review Cashdollar's survey of congregational life manages to be both systematic and engaging, providing an impressive weight of evidence for his generalizations without burying the reader in a surfeit of detail. --A. Gregory Schneider, Journal of American History A wonderful book on a neglected subject. Cashdollar provides a richly textured picture, offering insight into the workings of Protestant congregational life. He makes his case in a uniquely thorough and altogether engaging manner. --Anne C. Rose, The Pennsylvania State University

In particular, Cashdollar is to be praised for documenting and exploring significant changes such as from church discipline to pastoral counseling and from piety to fellowship. </p>--Timothy Larsen, <em>Journal of Religious History</em></p>

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Charles D. Cashdollar is a Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His previous book, The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890: Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America, was published by Princeton University Press in 1989. His articles have been published in Church History, Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Presbyterian History, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

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