Overview

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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Author:   Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp (Distinquished Professor and Interim Dean and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Washington University in St. Louis) ,  Leigh E. Schmidt (Distinguished Professor in Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis) ,  Mark Valeri (Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780801883620

ISBN 10:   0801883628
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   23 October 2006
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Puritan and Evangelical Practice in New England, 1630–1800 Chapter 1. Writing as a Protestant Practice: Devotional Diaries in Early New England Chapter 2. Forgiveness: From the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards Part II: Mission, Nation, and Christian Practice, 1820–1940 Chapter 3. Assembling Bodies and Souls: Missionary Practices on the Pacific Frontier Chapter 4. Honoring Elders: Practices of Sagacity and Deference in Ojibwe Christianity Chapter 5. Nurturing Religious Nationalism: Korean Americans in Hawaii Chapter 6. Re-Forming the Church: Preservation, Renewal, and Restoration in American Christian Architecture in California Part III: Devotional Practices and Modern Predicaments, 1880–1920 Chapter 7. ""Acting Faith"": Practices of Religious Healing in Late-Nineteenth-Century Protestantism Chapter 8. Observing the Lives of the Saints: Sanctification as Practice in the Church of God in Christ Chapter 9. The Practice of Prayer in a Modern Age: Liberals, Fundamentalists, and Prayer in the Early Twentieth Century Part IV: Liberal Protestants and Universalizing Practices, 1850–1965 Chapter 10. Cosmopolitan Piety: Sympathy, Comparative Religions, and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism Chapter 11. The Practice of Dance for the Future of Christianity: ""Eurythmic Worship"" in New York's Roaring Twenties Chapter 12. Taste Cultures: The Visual Practice of Liberal Protestantism, 1940–1965 Notes List of Contributors Index"

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Practicing Protestants integrates social theories about religious practice as a means of producing culture with the insights of several Protestant theologians who promote practice as a means to faith. It is an important contribution to American religious history and to the study of religious practice in the United States. - Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University, author of Healing in the History of Christianity

Author Information

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp is an associate professor of religious studies and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Leigh E. Schmidt is a professor of religion at Princeton University. Mark Valeri is the E. T. Thompson Professor of Church History at the Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education.

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