Protestantism and Protestant Churches Books

Book SynopsisThis book offers a creative and illuminating discussion of Protestant theology. Veteran teacher Phillip Cary explains how Luther''s theology arose from the Christian tradition, particularly from the spirituality of Augustine. Luther departed from the Augustinian tradition and inaugurated distinctively Protestant theology when he identified the gospel that gives us Christ as its key concept. More than any other theologian, Luther succeeds in carrying out the Protestant intention of putting faith in the gospel of Christ alone. Cary also explores the consequences of Luther''s teachings as they unfold in the history of Protestantism.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Why Protestantism?Part 1: Spirituality and the Being of God1. Philosophical Spirituality2. Divine Carnality3. Christ the Mediator in Augustine4. The Augustinian Journey and Its AnxietiesPart 2: The Gospel and the Power of God5. Young Luther: Justification as Penitential Process6. Young Luther: Justification without Gospel7. Luther the Reformer: Gospel as Sacramental Promise8. Luther the Reformer: Gospel as Story That Gives Us ChristPart 3: Christian Teaching and the Knowledge of God9. Scripture: Demanding the Wrong Kind of Certainty10. Salvation: Faith in Christ's Promise Alone11. Sacrament: Turning Outward to Divine Flesh12. Trinity: God Giving Himself in PersonConclusion: Why Luther's Gospel?Appendix 1: Luther's DevilsAppendix 2: Gospel as Sacrament: Luther's Sermon on Christmas Day 1519Index

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Book SynopsisAn Amish Paradox captures the complexity and creativity of the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a vestige of a bygone era and showing how they reinterpret tradition as modernity encroaches on their distinct way of life.Trade ReviewHurst and McConnell's thorough, readable analysis of the world's largest Amish settlement is fascinating from a variety of perspectives... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 Hurst and McConnell, obviously sympathetic to the Amish they study, are to be commended for their extensive research and their careful attention to nuance and exception. -- Robert Brenneman American Journal of Sociology 2011 A number of excellent books have been written about the Amish in recent years and An Amish Paradox joins the ranks of the best of them. A wonderful book. -- Elizabeth C. Cooksey Journal of Contemporary Religion 2011 A number of excellent books have been written about the Amish in recent years and An Amish Paradox joins the ranks of the best of them. Sociologist Charles Hurst and Anthropologist David McConnell not only bring an interdisciplinary expertise to their study, but also an intimate knowledge of the Amish in Ohio's Holmes County Settlement area, as well as a sense of adventure, as they lead theirreaders on a journey through various domains of Amish life. Their presentation is knowledgeable, measured, and thoughtful and their clear and straightforward style of writing takes one through many facets of Amish life in Ohio at a horse and buggy pace-fast enough to cover the territory and maintain one's interest, but slowly enough to point out the changing scenery en route and to really giveone a sense of the complex nuances that make up everyday Amish life. Journal of Contemporary Religion 2011 An Amish Paradox is a richly detailed and highly readable account of one settlement of Amish, perhaps the most visible ethnic religious minority in the United States. It is well-researched and free of jargon... [A] good choice for an advanced course in anthropology or sociology on religion, ethnicity, community, identity, or social change. -- Jonathan G. Andelson Anthropological Quarterly 2011Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps, and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Discovering the Holmes County Amish2. The Origins of Religious Diversity3. Coping with Church Schism4. Continuity and Change in Family Life5. The Changing Landscape of Learning6. Work Within and Outside Tradition7. Health along the Life Cycle8. Stepping Back and Looking ForwardAppendixesA. MethodologyB. Ohio Amish Settlements, 2008C. Holmes County Settlement Amish Church Schisms, 1900–2001NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled ‘lost tribes of Israel’-Israelites driven from their homeland around 740 BCE-took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the United States during its first half century. Matthew Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about religious nationalism in early America.

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Book SynopsisFounding the Fathers explores the development of early Christian history and theology as a discipline in four nineteenth-century Protestant seminaries in the United States. Archival sources reveal how professors adjusted German scholarship to fit Americans' evangelical assumptions and to make the Catholic past more palatable.Trade Review"This is a genuinely pioneering work from one of the most engaged historians of early Christianity. Elizabeth A. Clark's lucid exposition reveals a mastery of scholarship on German, British, and American educational curricula and intellectual life." * Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia *"Founding the Fathers is sweeping in its view of the history of American higher education, its comprehensive sense of the study of religion, and its firm grasp of the transnational scope of nineteenth-century theological learning. An original and substantial contribution to both American intellectual history and the history of early Christian studies." * Leigh Eric Schmidt, Harvard University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Higher Education and Religion in Nineteenth-Century United States PART I. THE SETTING: CONTEXTUALIZING THE STUDY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA 1. The Institutions and the Professors 2. Infrastructure: Teaching, Textbooks, Primary Sources, and Libraries PART II. HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 3. Defending the Faith: European Theories and American Professors 4. History and Church History 5. Development and Decline: Challenges to Historiographical Categories PART III. TOPICS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANALYSIS 6. Polity and Practice 7. Roman Catholicism 8. Asceticism, Marriage, Women, and the Family 9. The Uses of Augustine Conclusion Appendix: Student Notetakers List of Abbreviations and Archival Sources Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisExplores how understandings of godly love function to empower believersTrade ReviewAn exceptional book in that it tells the story of the failure of a faith-based movement rather than its success. In a richly textured narrative, the authors describe the limitations of religious charisma when it confronts the harsh reality of a business-minded board that requires accountability. This book is fascinating reading for anyone who wants to understand the interplay between spirit and flesh, vision and economic reality. -- Donald E. Miller,Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern CaliforniaUseful to those interested in the emerging church movement and Protestant charismatics. * Choice *This work will be useful to those interested in the emerging church movement and Protestant charismatics. The church's trajectorywhich ended before the fieldwork study was overwill also engage those interested in studying the at-times messy intertwining of religious institutions, prophetic leadership, and supernaturally focused practices. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Congregational Overview 2 Charisma and Structure in the Assemblies of God Theoretical Overview 3 Pentecostal Identity and the Charismata Mixed Motivation and Religious Experience 4 Structure and Charisma Doctrine, Power, and Administration 5 Spirit Baptism and Spiritual Transformation An Exercise in Socio-Theology 6 Spiritual Empowerment Pray-ers, Prophets, and Healers in the Pews 7 Law of Love and Love of Law Beliefs, Mores, and Faces of Love 8 Ushering in the Kingdom of God Religious Values, Godly Love, and Public Affairs 9 Covenants, Contracts, and Godly Love (with Matthew T. Lee)

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Book SynopsisMusic and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants use hymns to clarify their identity and define their relationship with America and Christianity.Trade ReviewMuch of American religion and spirituality has been shaped, defined, and promoted through its hymnody.... The subtext for this volume is how immigrants sang their faith in the New World of the U.S. and Canada. The contributions range from the experiences of slaves, women, and Native Americans in the early 19th century through the transplanted experiences of Presbyterians, the linguistic issues of German Mennonites, Swedish Covenanters, and Spanish-speaking Protestants, to the nondenominational radio revivalism of the early 20th century.... [S]ignificantly assists in the task of fitting together the historic and cultural pieces of American religious music. - Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) ""A collection organized around an effort to study the hymnody of American Protestant groups in relation to more general issues of religion and society.... In all, they make salient points for students of American religion, including to stress the importance of hymnody as an object of study... and to emphasize that hymns represent crucial statements of what believers believe and what their religion means to them."" - Journal of Southern Religion

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Book SynopsisIn 1966, Samuel Hill's Southern Churches in Crisis argued that southern Protestantism, a cornerstone of white southern society and culture, was shirking its moral duty by refusing to join in the fight for racial justice. His landmark work now returns to print updated and expanded - and compellingly relevant.Trade ReviewHow welcome it is to see this seminal book available again! And now it is enhanced by an eloquent, part-historiographical / part-autobiographical introduction and an incisive, broad-ranging epilogue that examines another fateful crisis in the southern churches. This book, renewed and reinforced, is as important now as it was thirty years ago." —John Boles, Rice University

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Book SynopsisStarting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, this book examines how the competing demands of communal identities and memberships shaped the early history of Protestantism in Korea.

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Book SynopsisExplores the influence of the YMCAâs and YWCAâs work on highly diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia; North America; Africa; and Eastern Europe. The book provides new insights into the evolution of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for todayâs world.

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Book SynopsisEdition of important documents from one of the major monastic centres of medieval England.In the wake of the Conqueror's ravaging of the North in the course of the rebellion and Danish invasion of 1069-70 the devastated city of York had to be largely rebuilt. The Conqueror himself contributed a major new abbey built in the west of the city, no doubt in a spirit of penitence for the wasting of the city and county carried out by his troops. The community's origins were not straightforward. It had begun in the early 1080s as a struggling monastic settlement on the ancient site of Lastingham on the North York Moors under its charismatic leader, Stephen. Around 1085 the community was adopted by the king and translated to the western quarter of York, to a site which had previously been the "burh" of the earl of Northumbria. The Conqueror made a creative use of the new Norman elite of Yorkshire to endow and secure the new abbey, an enterprise adopted and extended by his son William II Rufus in 1088. By the end of Abbot Stephen's term of office his abbey had absorbed a remarkable number of land grants from a variety of greater and lesser aristocrats across the North and East Ridings, as well as spawned two daughter houses in Cumbria. This new study uncovers in meticulous detail the manoeuvres of the king, the abbot and the aristocracy of Yorkshire as each looked to make spiritual and political capital out of the grand new royal foundation.Trade ReviewThe depth of the scholarly activity underpinning this volume is remarkable ... it is a major contribution to our understanding of the monastic revival in the north. Richard Sharpe was a scholar of enormous energy with an extensive range of intellectual interests and we are fortunate that he returned to the history of his native city in this way. -- Kathleen Thompson * Northern History *This substantial Surtees volume is certain to become an invaluable source for anyone working on the revival of northern monasticism and the patronage of the new Norman aristocracy and their tenants in late eleventh and early twelfth century Yorkshire. -- Local HistorianTable of ContentsRichard Sharpe : An Appreciation 1. A Foundation Book? Michael Gullick 2. The Foundation of the Abbey Richard Sharpe 3. Forged Charters of Confirmation Richard Sharpe 4. The Deeds of Gift Richard Sharpe 5. Introduction to the Foundation Narrative Nicholas Karn 6. The Foundation Narrative Nicholas Karn 7. The Confraternity List Janet Burton 8. The Anniversaries Richard Sharpe Indexes

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Book SynopsisAQUINAS AMONG THE PROTESTANTS This major new book provides an introduction to Thomas Aquinas's influence on Protestantism. The editors, both noted commentators on Aquinas, bring together a group of influential scholars to demonstrate the ways that Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed thinkers have analyzed and used Thomas through the centuries. Later chapters also explore how today's Protestants might appropriate the work of Aquinas to address a number of contemporary theological and philosophical issues. The authors set the record straight and disavow the widespread impression that Aquinas is an irrelevant figure for the history of Protestant thought. This assumption has dominated not only Protestant historiography but also Roman Catholic accounts of the Reformation and Protestant intellectual life. The book opens the possibility for contemporary reception, engagement, and critique and even intra-Protestant relations and includes: Information on the fruitful appropriation of Aquinas in Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Reception, Critique, and Use of Aquinas in Protestant Thought 1 Manfred Svensson and David VanDrunen Part I The Protestant Reception of Aquinas 25 1 Deformation and Reformation: Thomas Aquinas and the Rise of Protestant Scholasticism 27 Jordan J. Ballor 2 Thomas Aquinas and Reformed Biblical Interpretation: The Contribution of William Whitaker 49 David S. Sytsma 3 Jerome Zanchi’s Use of Thomas Aquinas 75 Stefan Lindholm 4 Richard Hooker and Thomas Aquinas on Defining Law 91 Torrance Kirby 5 Johann Gerhard’s Reception of Thomas Aquinas’s Analogia Entis 109 Jack Kilcrease 6 Doubting Reformational Anti‐Thomism 129 John Bolt 7 The Understanding and Critique of Thomas Aquinas in Contemporary German Protestant Theology 149 Sven Grosse Part II Constructive Engagement 167 8 Philosophy Explored 169 Sebastian Rehnman 9 The Active and Contemplative Life: The Practice of Theology 189 Michael Allen 10 On Divine Naming 207 Scott R. Swain 11 Nature and Grace 229 Paul Helm 12 Aquinas’s Doctrine of Justification and Infused Habits in Reformed Soteriology 249 J. V. Fesko 13 The Influence of Aquinas on Protestant Ethics 267 Daniel Westberg 14 “Justice,” the “Common Good,” and the Scope of State Authority: Pointers to Protestant‐Thomist Convergence 287 Jonathan Chaplin Index 307

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Book SynopsisThe fascinating story of America's oldest thriving heritage language. Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award by the Young Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown CollegeWhile most world languages spoken by minority populations are in serious danger of becoming extinct, Pennsylvania Dutch is thriving. In fact, the number of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers is growing exponentially, although it is spoken by less than one-tenth of one percent of the United States population and has remained for the most part an oral vernacular without official recognition or support. A true sociolinguistic wonder, Pennsylvania Dutch has been spoken continuously since the late eighteenth century despite having never been refreshed by later waves of immigration from abroad. In this probing study, Mark L. Louden, himself a fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, provides readers with a close look at the place of the language in the life and culture of two major subgroups of speakers: the FanTrade Review[Pennsylvania Dutch] is written in a very accessible style and provides good information about the Pennsylvania Dutch language.—Canadian MennoniteLouden captures the spirit of the folk-cultural narrative and remains engaging, accessible, and entertaining to a wide range of audiences.—Pennsylvania HeritageThe definitive guide to the subject.—Lancaster OnlineIndeed, this is a one-of-a-kind, exceptionally valuable book . . . So, scrape your pennies together, and go buy this book—before it's sold out!—Pennsylvania Mennonite HeritageLouden’s interdisciplinary work, sweeping as it does through centuries of history and across a vast continent, draws on three decades of study into the language’s evolution and social history.—Mennonite World ReviewLouden successfully weaves a complex tapestry that provides an exhaustive historical account of this language and its speakers and is easily accessible to multiple audiences. Upon finishing this work the scholar is left curious as to what the future holds for Pennsylvania Dutch and its legacy.—H-Net ReviewsThis book is the first attempt at researching and synthesizing the historical, cultural, and linguistic development of Pennsylvania Dutch across all the communities that speak it. It is a bold and broad goal. I'm happy to say that Louden has set the highest standard for any subsequent attempts . . . It is a wonderful story to follow from 1683 to the present.—Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist StudiesA splendid addition to the discipline of linguistics and, more specifically, to the field of Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture. A language this remarkable—thanks to its Old Order speakers, it is one of only a few heritage languages in America that is not endangered—deserves a firstrate book, and this is it. It will likely be unsurpassed for years to come.—Communal SocietiesCompiling the most in-depth treatment of Pennsylvania Dutch is no small task, yet Louden achieves this feat. The book is accessible to academics within and outside of Pennsylvania Dutch studies, as well as to speakers of the language who want to know more about it.—Journal of Germanic LinguisticsUses a wealth of sources, pamphlets, letters, poems, and newspaper articles . . . a great resource.—The Mennonite QuarterlyThis book abounds in marvelous historical and cultural details, together with language examples and linguistic curiosities that are sure to delight.—The Journal of American HistoryPennsylvania Dutch is an enlightening, educational and enjoyable read, mostly due to the skill of the author.—Journal of Mennonite StudiesA wash of fresh knowledge through an implicit fusing of linguistics and sociology . . . Its attention to details in linguistic data and linguistic history coupled with the undertones of a comparative analysis of one assimilation variable—minority language—makes it a compelling study . . . The book itself is a product of the same dynamic fusion of interdisciplinary influences that symbolizes the dynamic evolution of Pennsylvania Dutch and the languages of others coming to America.—Rural SociologyThe comprehensive handbook for which many scholars in this area have been waiting for decades . . . It is likely to be the standard work on Pennsylvania German for some time to come.—Yearbook of German-American StudiesMark L. Louden's landmark new book, Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language . . . represents a major achievement of linguistic, historical, and anthropological scholarship, and it will be of great use to scholars from across the disciplines who share interests in the United States's diverse linguistic and cultural heritage . . . The success of Pennsylvania Dutch rests in its author's ability to present detail-oriented, specialist knowledge of linguistic patterns in German and Pennsylvania Dutch in accessible and meaningful ways to scholars from across the disciplines—as well as members of the public, for whom this book offers a scholarly yet approachable introduction to the topic . . . Pennsylvania Dutch is both a fitting testament to the analytical power of interdisciplinary folklife studies and also a major step forward for several interrelated fields of scholarship.—Alexander Lawrence Ames, Amerikastudien / American StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. What Is Pennsylvania Dutch?2. Early History of Pennsylvania Dutch3. Pennsylvania Dutch, 1800–18604. Profiles in Pennsylvania Dutch Literature5. Pennsylvania Dutch in the Public Eye6. Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish and Mennonites7. An American StoryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDenominations, although often maligned, are important for the continued health and vitality of the church. Contributors from a variety of evangelical traditions share their personal stories for the sake of unity across denominational lines.

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Book SynopsisIn this compilation of nine never-before published sermons, well-known pastor Martyn Lloyd-Jones powerfully exhorts Christians to focus their affections on the God of the Bible, addressing issues such as prayer, the church, and evangelism.

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Book SynopsisEssays on the contradictory resurgence of religion and liberalism in the twenty-first century by one of the most important voices in the study of the sociology of religionTrade Review"Gorski's arguments are measured and persuasive, both historically and theoretically, and his chapters are judicious in their claims. The Protestant Ethic Revisited is a great book." -Theodore Vial, Associate Professor of Theology at the Iliff School of Theology "An excellent set of essays, among which some are veritable classics. Gorski has established himself as one of the leading sociologists of his generation, and his essays in the sociology of religion have contributed greatly to his high international reputation. He has developed a wide-ranging comparative approach to religious sociology, not to mention some much-needed analytic sophistication, and has helped to reintegrate the area with already vibrant subfields such as historical and comparative sociology, political sociology, and sociological theory. The essays in The Protestant Ethic Revisited are important milestones in the recent transformation of the field. Gorski's work is no flash in the pan. It is enduringly valuable scholarship." -Mustafa Emirbayer,Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beyond the Tilly Thesis: How States Did Not Make War and War Did Not Make States Part I: Religion and Politics in Early Modern Europe 1. The Protestant Ethic Revisited: Disciplinary Revolution and State Formation in Holland and Prussia 2. Calvinism and Revolution: The Walzer Thesis Reconsidered 3. The Mosaic Moment: An Early Modernist Critique of Modernist Theories of Nationalism 4. The Making of Prussian Absolutism: Confessional Conflict and State Autonomy under the Great Elector, 1640-1688 5. The Little Divergence: The Protestant Reformation and Economic Hegemony in Early Modern Europe Part II: The Secularization Debate 6. Historicizing the Secularization Debate: Church, State, and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, circa 1300 to 1700 7. After Secularization? by Philip S. Gorski and Ates Altinordu Conclusion: The Protestant Ethic and the Secular Modern Index

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Book SynopsisAfter spending several months in England, Erasmus returned to Paris in the winter of 1500 and set about compiling a small anthology of classical proverbs known as the Adagiorum collectanea. This modest work became the basis for one of Erasmus’ best known and longest works, when it was expanded in 1508 into the far more substantial Adagiorum chiliades. The essay that begins this introductory volume to the Adages explores the development of the Collectanea and its transformation into the Adagiorum chiliades. It is followed by the first annotated translation into English of the Collectanea. The second part of this volume contains a series of indexes to all of the adages found in CWE volumes 3136: Greek; Latin; Early Modern English proverbs with possible sources or parallels in Erasmus; Erasmus’ original topical index; and full indexes of all the proverbs and names mentioned by Erasmus. The Prolegomena to the Adages Trade Review‘Waiting for CWE 30 was a matter of a few years. Tantalizing by partial translation, English readers have waited centuries for a complete Adages. At last we have it, dense, delightful, and whole. The Toronto Adages is a major accomplishment, five hundred years overdue.’ -- Willis Goth Regier * World Literature Today October 2017 *Table of ContentsErasmus' Adages by John N. Grant The Adagiorum collectanea Translation and annotation Indexes to the Erasmus' Adages Works Frequently Cited Short-title Forms for Erasmus' Works

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Book Synopsis**FINALIST, 2022 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies**An innovative exploration of religion''s influence on communication networksWhen Samuel Morse sent the words what hath God wrought from the US Supreme Court to Baltimore in mere minutes, it was the first public demonstration of words travelling faster than human beings and farther than a line of sight in the US. This strange confluence of media, religion, technology, and US nationhood lies at the foundation of global networks.The advent of a telegraph cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean was viewed much the way the internet is today, to herald a coming world-wide unification. President Buchanan declared that the Atlantic Telegraph would be an instrument destined by divine providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law throughout the world through which the nations of Christendom [would] spontaneously unite. Evangelical Protestantism embraced the new technology as indicatTrade ReviewWhen the Medium Was the Mission excavates the entire assemblage surrounding the first transatlantic undersea cable, typically thought of as marking the birth of network culture in 1858. Rather than build on the conventional definition of a network — which favors the technological structure connecting nodes — Supp-Montgomerie begins with the premise that networks have always been 'first and foremost imaginaries' or enactments of 'particular forms of social and material life.' This framing makes clear that whatever we currently believe about the inherent affordances of networks is in fact what our network environment allows us to believe. * LA Review of Books *As refreshingly original as it is persuasive, Supp-Montgomerie’s media history traces the entwined trajectories of religious affect and network-oriented thinking as they emerged in reference to American telegraphy. Her stories of fervid missionaries, Bible communists, and Protestant utopians—as of failed connections and togetherness defeated—should resonate for readers today who are steeped in Silicon Valley evangelism. -- Lisa Gitelman, author of Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of DocumentsSupp-Montgomerie models how to integrate the study of human and non-human actors in American religious history, offering us a fascinating account of infrastructure’s work to animate religious life and of the politics such religious infrastructure enabled. -- Judith Weisenfeld, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton UniversityNets consist mostly of holes: that’s what makes them nets. This insight drives Jenna Supp-Montgomerie’s revisionist genealogy of our network-intoxicated present. With a rich social-theoretical imagination and generous interpretive brush, she shows how technological dreamers conjure tales of rapture and sizzle from facts of rupture and fizzle. Networks, like Penelope’s loom, unravel as they ravel. This insight is both foundational for media history and a moral truth of the first order. -- John Durham Peters, Yale UniversityTheoretically sophisticated and written in an engaging style,When the Medium Was the Mission describes a heady world of invisible affects, circulating discourses, and utopian fantasies, quickened by (though not quite reliant on) the cables corroding at the bottom of an ocean. * American Religion *Interdisciplinarity is one of Supp-Montgomerie’s particular strengths in this book. When the Medium Was the Mission cleverly blends history (including impressive archival finds) and theory from several fields, such as communication studies, media studies, history, and religious studies. * Media Industries *

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Book SynopsisHighlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian engagement in US politicsThe Watergate scandal was one of the most infamous events in American democratic history. Faith in the government plummeted, leaving the nation feeling betrayed and unsure who could be trusted anymore. In Evil Deeds in High Places, David E. Settje examines how Christian institutions reacted to this moral and ethical collapse, and the ways in which they chose to assert their moral authority. Settje argues that Watergate was a turning point for spurring Christian engagement with politics. While American Christians had certainly already been active in the public sphere, these events motivated a more urgent engagement in response, and served to pave the way for conservatives to push more fully into political power. Historians have carefully analyzed the judicial, media, congressional, and presidential actions surrounding Watergate, but there has been very little consideration of popular reactions of Trade Review"This book makes for very interesting reading – timely even as it discusses events five decades in the past." * Religion *"With this captivating book, David Settje brings a fresh perspective and uncovers new insights on the Watergate scandal and Nixon presidency. Settje shows that Watergate was not just a political scandal and Constitutional crisis; for many Americans it was also a religious test of faith. His excavation of the broad gamut of Protestant reactions is sensitive, nuanced, and compelling." -- William Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security and Associate Professor of Public Affairs and History, University of Texas at Austin"What makes Settje a good historian is that he takes pleasure in revealing the debates that shape and move historical narratives. Evil Deeds in High Places finds creative ways to pose contrasting views of Watergate and the nation to show the plurality of American voices, rather than the inherent wrongness of any one side. If nothing else, readers will find the origins of echoes for our time in what people said about Nixon." -- Raymond Haberski, author of God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945"A compelling look at how the Watergate scandal was framed through a theological lens ... Highly recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisIllustrates how devout Haitian Protestant migrants use their religious identities to ground themselves in a place that is hostile to them as migrants, and it also uncovers how their religious faith ties in to their belief in the need to "save" their homeland, as they re-imagine Haiti politically and morally as a Protestant Christian nation.Trade ReviewDr. Bertin M. Louis Jr. has just offered to the world of intelligentsia a remarkable book on the culture of Haitian Protestantism in the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas. It is, without a doubt, a roadmap for cultural anthropology or ethnography designed for researchers with deep insights, students, and scholars to address religious issues, not only under the lens of inquiry, but with a profound thirst for social justice. * Ethnic and Racial Studies,Clarence St. Hilaire *My Soul is in Haitioffers much for us to seriously contemplate. * Black Theology *[F]or bringing Haitian Protestantism to our attentionand apparently to the attention of Bahamiansand for linking religion to class, race, and transnational variables, the project is a welcome addition to the literature on Latin and Caribbean Christianity. * Anthropology Review Database *A ground breaking study of the evangelical Protestant churches in the Haitian communities of the Bahamas, describing the ways in which these churches provide their congregations with a sense of national and transnational identity. Vital for students of diasporic and transnational studies, anthropologists, historians and sociologists of religion, this book is a comprehensive study likely to be the authoritative source on this topic for years to come. -- Leslie G. Desmangles,Trinity CollegeA ground-breaking study drawing on five years of transnational ethnographic research in the Bahamas, Haiti, and the United States. As a Haitian-American, Louis is cognizant of the subtleties of Haitian culture and the cultural differences between Haitians living in Haiti and Haitians living abroad. A major strength of this book is the authors keen recognition of the importance of boundary maintenance and his insights into native constructions of 'religion,' such as the distinction Haitians make between being Protestant (Pwotestan) and being Christian (Kretyen). -- Stephen D. Glazier,University of Nebraska-LincolnTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi Pronunciation of Haitian Creole Terminology xv Introduction 1 1. Haitian Protestant Culture 19 2. Haitians in the Bahamas 47 3. Pastors, Churches, and Haitian Protestant Transnational Ties 71 4. Haitian Protestant Liturgy 95 5. "The People Who Have Not Converted Yet," 119 Protestant, and Christian Conclusion: Modernity Revisited 143 Notes 153 References 163 Index 169 About the Author 179

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Book SynopsisRecovers the religious origins of the War on DrugsMany people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as this new book shows, the conflict actually began more than a century before, when American Protestants began the temperance movement and linked drug use with immorality. Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs argues that this early drug war was deeply rooted in Christian impulses. While many scholars understand Prohibition to have been a Protestant undertaking, it is considerably less common to consider the War on Drugs this way, in part because racism has understandably been the focal point of discussions of the drug war. Antidrug activists expressedand still do express--blatant white supremacist and nativist motives. Yet this book argues that that racism was intertwined with religious impulses. Reformers pursued the civilizing mission, a wide-ranging project that sought to protect child races from harmful inflTrade Review"The American crusade against intoxicants began earlier than you might think. An in-depth reassessment of the war on drugs, with lessons for students of American religion, crime, and white supremacy." * Kirkus Reviews *"There is a long history to the war on drugs that began in the Nixon administration, and it is one closely tied to Protestant Christianity, argues Monteith. This groundbreaking work will be appreciated particularly by scholars, but those with an interest in history or Christian history will likely find it engaging as well." * Library Journal *"Quite thorough in its scope and features theological, legal, racist, and cultural trends as they related to the war on drugs. . . . Solid historically, important culturally and politically, and eye opening religiously. " -- Gary Laderman, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Religious History and Cultures, Emory College"A superb analysis of one of America’s most enduring social problems. Monteith’s historical research, coupled with his astute engagement with theories of religion, make this a groundbreaking contribution to many fields. " -- Cara Burnidge, author of A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order

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Book SynopsisThe untold story of the federal government's Depression-era effort to redeem Dust Bowl refugees in rural California through religionIn the midst of the Great Depression, punished by crippling drought and deepening poverty, hundreds of thousands of families left the Great Plains and the Southwest to look for work in California's rich agricultural valleys. In response to the scene of destitute white families living in filthy shelters built of cardboard, twigs, and refuse, reform-minded New Deal officials built a series of camps to provide them with shelter and community.Using the extensive archives of the federal migratory camp system, From Dust They Came tells the story of the religious dynamics in and around migratory farm labor camps in agricultural California established and operated by the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration. Jonathan H. Ebel makes the case that the camps served as mission sites for the conversion of migrantsTrade ReviewOver the course of his career, Ebel has brilliantly excavated the entangling of American religious and secular beliefs, and From Dust They Came, about New Deal migrant camps where progressive administrators cautiously evangelized modernity to migrants with a diverse and sometimes riotous set of religious beliefs and practices, is a masterful book containing deep resonances with contemporary debates. * Philip Klay, author of National Book Award winner Redeployment *With his close reading of government camps for displaced workers, Ebel shows how modern American religion is not only discernable, but perhaps best understood as it manifests in purportedly secular spaces. From Dust They Came carefully attends to the best-laid plans and raucous refusals prompted by economic and environmental disaster. In so doing, it makes an important contribution to conversations about religion, secularity, and the persistent American impulse towards reform. Highly recommended. * Jennifer Graber, author of The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West *Essential reading for anyone interested in the New Deal. Ebel deftly illustrates how the federal government's secular purpose to reform and remake the migrants for a modern, capitalist world clashed with the evangelical, biblically literate migrants who organized their own social and cultural world within the structured spaces of the camps. This is an important study that surely will become a classic. * R. Douglas Hurt, author of The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century *In an innovative perspective on church and state relations, Ebel asks us to return to the New Deal era to better understand the reforming spirit. Of special note is the inclusion of the camp residents’ voices as they pushed back against the modernizing program through their poetry and songs as well as their commitment to Pentecostal forms of worship. From Dust They Came is a sensitive exploration of what Ebel calls ‘mission communities’ that is lyrically written and meticulously researched. * Colleen McDanell, Professor of History and Sterling McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies, The University of Utah *

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how white American Protestant women embraced a racially specific version of socialinclusiveness that centered themselves as the normAmidst the global instability of the early twentieth century, white Christian American women embracedthe idea of an empire of Christ that was racially diverse, but which they believed they were uniquelyqualified to manage. America's burgeoning power, combined with women's rising roles within thechurch, led to white Protestant women adopting a feminism rooted in religion and imperialism.Gale L. Kenny examines this Christian imperial feminism from the women's missionary movement tocreate a Christian world order. She shows that this Christian imperial feminism marked a break from anearlier Protestant world view that focused on moral and racial purity and in which interactions amongraces were inconceivable. This new approach actually prioritized issues like civil rights and racialintegrTrade ReviewThrough close examinations of a wide range of practices from mission study to pageants to committee meetings to worship services, Christian Imperial Feminism reveals the ways that Protestant women embraced a Christian cosmopolitanism that simultaneously embraced diversity and sought to manage it…. A thoughtful exploration of Protestant churchwomen as full people with good intentions and deep flaws who took action in a world that they thought they understood far better than they actually did, with effects that they could not always predict. -- Emily Conroy Krutz, Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American RepublicExpertly written…. Will be of most interest to historians, particularly those working on missions, Christian women, and US Christianity in the twentieth century. -- Hillary Kaell, author of Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage

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Book SynopsisOffers a greater understanding of the spread of Protestant Christianity, both regionally and globally, by studying local transformations in the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas. In the Haitian diaspora, as in Haiti itself, the majority ofHaitians have long practiced Catholicism or Vodou. However, Protestant forms ofChristianity now flourish both in Haiti and beyond. In the Bahamas, whereapproximately one in five people are now Haitian-born or Haitian-descended,Protestantism has become the majority religion for immigrant Haitians. In My Soul Is in Haiti, Bertin M. Louis, Jr. hascombined multi-sited ethnographic research in the United States, Haiti, and theBahamas with a transnational framework to analyze why Protestantism hasappealed to the Haitian diaspora community in the Bahamas. The volumeillustrates how devout Haitian Protestant migrants use their religiousidentities to ground themselves in a place that is hostile to them as migrants,and it also uncovers how their religious faith Trade ReviewDr. Bertin M. Louis Jr. has just offered to the world of intelligentsia a remarkable book on the culture of Haitian Protestantism in the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas. It is, without a doubt, a roadmap for cultural anthropology or ethnography designed for researchers with deep insights, students, and scholars to address religious issues, not only under the lens of inquiry, but with a profound thirst for social justice. * Ethnic and Racial Studies,Clarence St. Hilaire *My Soul is in Haitioffers much for us to seriously contemplate. * Black Theology *[F]or bringing Haitian Protestantism to our attentionand apparently to the attention of Bahamiansand for linking religion to class, race, and transnational variables, the project is a welcome addition to the literature on Latin and Caribbean Christianity. * Anthropology Review Database *A ground breaking study of the evangelical Protestant churches in the Haitian communities of the Bahamas, describing the ways in which these churches provide their congregations with a sense of national and transnational identity. Vital for students of diasporic and transnational studies, anthropologists, historians and sociologists of religion, this book is a comprehensive study likely to be the authoritative source on this topic for years to come. -- Leslie G. Desmangles,Trinity CollegeA ground-breaking study drawing on five years of transnational ethnographic research in the Bahamas, Haiti, and the United States. As a Haitian-American, Louis is cognizant of the subtleties of Haitian culture and the cultural differences between Haitians living in Haiti and Haitians living abroad. A major strength of this book is the authors keen recognition of the importance of boundary maintenance and his insights into native constructions of 'religion,' such as the distinction Haitians make between being Protestant (Pwotestan) and being Christian (Kretyen). -- Stephen D. Glazier,University of Nebraska-LincolnTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi Pronunciation of Haitian Creole Terminology xv Introduction 1 1. Haitian Protestant Culture 19 2. Haitians in the Bahamas 47 3. Pastors, Churches, and Haitian Protestant Transnational Ties 71 4. Haitian Protestant Liturgy 95 5. "The People Who Have Not Converted Yet," 119 Protestant, and Christian Conclusion: Modernity Revisited 143 Notes 153 References 163 Index 169 About the Author 179

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Book SynopsisSacrifice and Regeneration focuses on the extraordinary success of Seventh-day Adventism in the Andean plateau at the beginning of the twentieth century and sheds light on the historical trajectories of Protestantism in Latin America.Trade Review"[Sacrifice and Regeneration] is very well written and meticulous in its use of archival sources. . . . Every university library should have Sacrifice and Regeneration, and every Andes expert should buy it."—Henri Gooren, Hispanic American Historical Review“Sacrifice and Regeneration provides a novel perspective on religion, Indigenous movements, and race in Latin America more broadly, and one that is attentive to evangelism’s role in the integration and dissolution of caste systems in the first half of the twentieth century. This perspective is pathbreaking.”—Waskar Ari, author of Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals“Sacrifice and Regeneration opens a window into global transformations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that brought together two very different groups. Yael Mabat complicates the story of colonialism, demonstrating how North American Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and Andean army veterans together transformed the political and cultural landscape in the Andean highlands.”—Joan Meznar, professor emerita of history at Eastern Connecticut State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Converts 1. Wars, Indians, and the Peruvian Nation 2. Army Veterans Return to the Highlands 3. Religious Conversion and Racial Regeneration in an Indian Community 4. Religious Conversion and Communal Cohesion Part 2. Missionaries 5. Seventh-day Adventism and the Foreign Missionary Enterprise, 1850–192 6. Seventh-day Adventists and the Challenge of Modern Times 7. Everyday Sacrifices and Missionaries’ Experiences in the Andean Highlands Part 3. The Mission 8. Building an “Indian” Mission on the Top of the Andes 9. From the Lake Titicaca “Indian Mission” to “the Lake Titicaca Mission” Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSacrifice and Regeneration focuses on the extraordinary success of Seventh-day Adventism in the Andean plateau at the beginning of the twentieth century and sheds light on the historical trajectories of Protestantism in Latin America.Trade Review"[Sacrifice and Regeneration] is very well written and meticulous in its use of archival sources. . . . Every university library should have Sacrifice and Regeneration, and every Andes expert should buy it."—Henri Gooren, Hispanic American Historical Review“Sacrifice and Regeneration provides a novel perspective on religion, Indigenous movements, and race in Latin America more broadly, and one that is attentive to evangelism’s role in the integration and dissolution of caste systems in the first half of the twentieth century. This perspective is pathbreaking.”—Waskar Ari, author of Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals“Sacrifice and Regeneration opens a window into global transformations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that brought together two very different groups. Yael Mabat complicates the story of colonialism, demonstrating how North American Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and Andean army veterans together transformed the political and cultural landscape in the Andean highlands.”—Joan Meznar, professor emerita of history at Eastern Connecticut State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Converts 1. Wars, Indians, and the Peruvian Nation 2. Army Veterans Return to the Highlands 3. Religious Conversion and Racial Regeneration in an Indian Community 4. Religious Conversion and Communal Cohesion Part 2. Missionaries 5. Seventh-day Adventism and the Foreign Missionary Enterprise, 1850–192 6. Seventh-day Adventists and the Challenge of Modern Times 7. Everyday Sacrifices and Missionaries’ Experiences in the Andean Highlands Part 3. The Mission 8. Building an “Indian” Mission on the Top of the Andes 9. From the Lake Titicaca “Indian Mission” to “the Lake Titicaca Mission” Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Herbert H. Lehman Prize by the New York Academy of History.In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler tell the story of nineteenth-century Brooklyn''s domination by upper- and middle-class Protestants with roots in Puritan New England. This lively history describes the unraveling of the control they wielded as more ethnically diverse groups moved into the City of Churches during the twentieth century.Before it became a prime American example of urban ethnic diversity, Brooklyn was a lovely and salubrious town across the river from Manhattan, celebrated for its churches and upright suburban living. But challenges to this way of life issued from the sheer growth of the city, from new secular institutionsdepartment stores, theaters, professional baseballand from the licit and illicit attractions of Coney Island, all of which were at odds with post-Puritan piety and behavior. DespitTrade ReviewThe Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn offers a sophisticated, nuanced history of Brooklyn's transformation into a vibrant, modern, urban community. It also speaks powerfully to the shameful anti-immigrant sentiment currently surging across the nation. * Gotham, A Blog for New York City Scholars *Table of ContentsPrologue: America's Brooklyn 1. Brooklyn Village 2. The City of Brooklyn" 3. On the Waterfront 4. Toward a New Brooklyn 5. Newcomers 6. Transformation 7. Acceptance, Resistance, Flight Epilogue: Brooklyn's America

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Book SynopsisMax Weber's sociological theories of secularization have vastly influenced the study of Protestant belief. "Protestant Modernity" offers a multifaceted understanding of secularization within the broader context of nineteenth-century liberal Protestantism. Anthony J. Carroll reconstructs Weber's original writings to highlight Protestant motifs, reviews current secularization theories, and settles debates about contested meanings of secularization in a volume that will be essential reading for students and scholars of theology and the sociology of religion.

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Book SynopsisExamines the most successful institution of social discipline in Reformation Europe: the Consistory of Geneva during the time of John Calvin Created by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Reformed morality. Comprised of pastors and elders, this body met weekly and summoned people for a wide range of "sinful" behavior, such as drunkenness, dancing, blasphemy, or simply quarrels, and was a far more intrusive institution than the Catholic Inquisition. Among the thousands summoned during Calvin's ministry were a pair of women who were allegedly prophets, boys who skipped catechism to practice martial arts, and a good number of people begging for forgiveness for having renounced Protestantism out of fear of death. This superbly researched book, reflecting author Jeffrey Watt's career-long involvement in the ongoing project of transcribing, editing, and publishing the Consistory records, is the first comprehensive examination of this morals court and provides a window into the reception of the Reformation in the so-called Protestant Rome. Watt examines the role of the Consistory in upholding patriarchy, showing that while Genevan authorities did not have a double standard in prosecuting illicit sexuality, the Consistory exhorted women to obey even violently abusive husbands. He finds also that Calvin and his colleagues vigorously promoted a strong work ethic by censuring people, mostly men, for laziness, and showed a surprising degree of skepticism toward accusations of witchcraft. Finally, Watt demonstrates convincingly that, while the Consistory encountered some resistance, Genevans by and large shared the ideals it promoted and that it enjoyed considerable success in fostering discipline in Genevan society. This book is openly available in digital formats, under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC, thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Consistory Encounters Resistance The Push for Religious Uniformity Educating and Disciplining the Young Controlling Lust and Regulating Marriage Superstitions, Magic, and Witchcraft Promoting the Industrious and Sober Lifestyle Conflicts, Reconciliation, and the Confession of Sins Conclusion Selected Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisThe correspondence of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, provides revealing insights into his mind, methods and activities, especially in the 1630s, as he sought to remodel the church and the clerical estatein the three kingdoms. William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, is a central figure in the history of seventeenth-century Britain. Laud's correspondence provides revealing insights into his mind, methods and activities, especially in the 1630s, as he sought to remodel the church and the clerical estate in the three kingdoms. The Further Correspondence of William Laud prints 223 letters, drawn from thirty-eight libraries and archives, which were not included in the nineteenth-century edition of his Works. It has real importance for our perception of Laud and the early Stuart church, greatly increasing the number of his letters for the 1620s and providing significant new information, such as the three earliest letters to his closest political ally, Thomas Wentworth, in 1630. Other correspondents include politicians such as Sir John Coke and Lord Keeper Coventry, the diplomat Sir William Boswell, numerous heads of colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge, and churchmen such as Bishops John Bridgeman of Chester and John Bramhall of Derry as well as Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople. A lengthy introduction assesses the waysin which these letters deepen our knowledge, broaden our understanding and refine our views of Laud's various roles, as chief ecclesiastical counsellor to Charles I, court politician and administrator, chancellor of Oxford University, and overseer of religious reformation in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. An appendix lists all of Laud's correspondence in chronological order. Collectively, the letters attest to his extraordinary energy andtireless commitment to reform and point to the indelible impact that Laud made on his contemporaries. KENNETH FINCHAM is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on religion and politics in early modern Britain, including two monographs, Prelate as Pastor: the Episcopate of James I (1990) and, with Nicholas Tyacke, Altars Restored: the Changing Face of English Religious Worship 1547-c.1700 (2007); edited two collections of essays, The Early Stuart Church 1603-1642 (1993) and, with Peter Lake, Religious Politics in post-Reformation England (2006); and edited two volumes of Articles and Injunctions of the Early Stuart Church (1994-8) for the Church of England Record Society.Trade ReviewA meticulously researched compilation of letters of the former Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud (1573-1645), many of which did not exist in print before the publication of this volume. * READING RELIGION *A valuable addition to our understanding of the complexity and extent of the part that [Laud] played, especially in the 1630s when he was at the height of his power as principal ecclesiastical adviser to Charles I...[An] excellent publication enhanced with Professor Fincham's impeccable scholarship. * CHURCH TIMES *Kenneth Fincham, a distinguished historian of the early modern Anglican Church, has gathered a rich collection of letters that do much to breathe new life into the wooden martinet we thought we knew. . . . This edition of Archbishop Laud's correspondence is masterfully edited and annotated, and greatþ enhances our understanding of his life and character. -- Victor Stater * Anglican & Episcopal History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Letters 1614-1645 Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExamines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity. Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if they cannot agree what that orthodoxy should be. The notion that there is a 'catholic', or universal, Christian faith - that which, according to the famous fifth-century formula, has been believed everywhere, at all times and by all people - is itself an act of faith: to reconcile it with the historical fact of persistent division and plurality requires a constant effort. It also requires a variety of strategies, from confrontation and exclusion, through deliberate choices as to what is forgotten or ignored, to creative or even indulgent inclusion. In this volume, seventeen leading historians of Christianity ask how the ideal of unity has clashed, negotiated, reconciled or coexisted with the historical reality of diversity, in a range of historical settings from the early Church through the Reformation era to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These essays hold the huge variety of the Christian experience together with the ideal of orthodoxy, which Christians have never (yet) fully attained but for which they have always striven; and they trace some of the consequences of the pursuit of that ideal for the history of Christianity.Trade ReviewThis is a fine collection of essays, alive with provocative reflections, all centred on the threefold theme of 'the making, breaking and enduring of orthodoxies'. Readers will gain nourishment here and not be disappointed. -- CONGREGATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETY MAGAZINETable of Contents1. 'Jewish Christianity' in antiquity: meaningless category or heuristic irritant? James Carleton Paget 2. 'Sola Fide': The Wrong Slogan? Morna D. Hooker 3. Both Cromwellian and Augustinian: The influence of Thomas Cromwell on reform within the early modern English Austin Friars Anik Laferrière 4. Lex, Rex, and Sex: The Bigamy of Philipp of Hesse and the Lutheran Recourse to Natural Law Korey D. Maas 5. The Authority of Scripture in Reformation Anglicanism: Then and Now Ashley Null 6. Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Post-Reformation Euan Cameron 7. Profanity and Piety in the Church Porch: The Place of Transgression in Early Modern England Ethan Shagan 8. Writing on the Walls: Word and Image in the Post-Reformation English Church Felicity Heal 9. The Myth of the Church of England Alec Ryrie 10. Mysticism, orthodoxy and Reformed identity before the English Revolution: the case of John Everard Sarah Apetrei 11. Sacrilege and the Sacred in England's Second Reformation, 1640-1660 Judith Maltby 12. 'I had not the patience to be quiet': Arthur Bury and The Naked Gospel Alison Dight 13. 'A Soul-Corrupting Indifferentism': The Intellectual Development of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Jonathan Yonan 14. Newman, Dogma and Freedom in the Church Eamon Duffy 15. 'Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?' Reconsidering Religion and the British Soldier Michael Snape 16. King James Vulgate Ellie Gabarowski-Shafer 17. The Myth of the Anglican Communion? Hannah Cleugh

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Book SynopsisA complete transcription of the Lambeth Library MS 1126. Lambeth Library MS 1126 was compiled, probably in late 1663, on behalf of Gilbert Sheldon, the new archbishop of Canterbury, as a conspectus of the parishes of Canterbury diocese and the archiepiscopal peculiars. A number of entries contain illuminating comments on the religious complexion of the parish, relating to both its incumbents and leading laity, of a type not found elsewhere for the 1660s. Its value for historians is twofold: first, the light it throws on the restoration of the episcopalian Church of England in the early 1660s. Notwithstanding the Act of Uniformity enforced at St Bartholomew's Day 1662, it is abundantly clear from this Catalogue that the Church of England remained divided and unsettled in the parishes, at least in Canterbury diocese. Second, the Catalogue is of interest for the administrative processes it records, as an incoming archbishop, necessarily non-resident, sought to become acquainted with the clergy and prominent laity in the parishes, information which was then updated over the next twenty years. In this respect, the Catalogue adumbrates the more routine and fuller collection of information about the parishes in the eighteenth-century church. A few of the comments in the Catalogue have already been referred to by historians, but this complete transcription has allowed in-depth analysis and concludes that Canterbury diocese must have experienced many more ejections of clergy than has previously been recognized, pointing to a need for more detailed examination of events in other dioceses.Table of ContentsMaps and parish lists in 1663 Canterbury diocese The deanery of Shoreham The deanery of the Arches The deanery of Croydon The deaneries of Pagham and Tarring The deanery of South Malling The deanery of Bocking The deanery of Risborough Number of parishes Exempt parishes List of abbreviations Introduction General description and editorial conventions Transcription Bibliography Biographical index General index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates a puzzling and neglected phenomenon - the rise of English Arminianism during the decade of puritan rule. Throughout the 1650s, numerous publications, from scholarly folios to popular pamphlets, attacked the doctrinal commitments of Reformed Orthodoxy. This anti-Calvinist onslaught came from different directions: episcopalian royalists (Henry Hammond, Herbert Thorndike, Peter Heylyn), radical puritan defenders of the regicide (John Goodwin and John Milton), and sectarian Quakers and General Baptists. Unprecedented rejection of Calvinist soteriology was often coupled with increased engagement with Catholic, Lutheran and Remonstrant alternatives. As a result, sophisticated Arminian publications emerged on a scale that far exceeded the Laudian era. Cromwellian England therefore witnessed an episode of religious debate that significantly altered the doctrinal consensus of the Church of England for the remainder of the seventeenth century. The book will appeal to historians interested in the contested nature of 'Anglicanism' and theologians interested in Protestant debates regarding sovereignty and free will. Part One is a work of religious history, which charts the rise of English Arminianism across different ecclesial camps - episcopal, puritan and sectarian. These chapters not only introduce the main protagonists but also highlight a surprising range of distinctly English Arminian formulations. Part Two is a work of historical theology, which traces the detailed doctrinal formulations of two prominent divines - the puritan John Goodwin and the episcopalian Henry Hammond. Their Arminian theologies are set in the context of the Western theological tradition and the soteriological debates, that followed the Synod of Dort. The book therefore integrates historical and theological enquiry to offer a new perspective on the crisis of 'Calvinism' in post-Reformation England.Trade ReviewWho would benefit from reading the book? Theologians naturally, and especially those concerned with the religious differences of seventeenth-century England. * FACHRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religious Identity and Doctrinal Debate Part I. 'This Quinquarticular war': Charting the rise of English Arminianism 1 . The Crisis of Calvinism in the 1650s: Background and Explanation 2. Puritan Arminianism 3. Episcopal Arminianism 4. Sectarian Arminianism Part I Conclusion Part II. 'Quinqu-Articularis' : Tracing the contours of English Arminian Theologies 5. Ordo Decretorum: Confessional Traditions and Doctrinal Disputes 6. John Goodwin's Arminian Theology 7. Henry Hammond's Arminian Theology Part II Conclusion Conclusion: Reimagining English Theology Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.The five-movement polyphonic Mass Ordinary emerged from the cultural and liturgical practices of medieval Roman Catholicism and became the pre-eminent large-scale musical genre of early modern Europe. By the end of the sixteenth century, the polyphonic mass remained a core musical genre among Catholics despite gaining widespread popularity within a new institution fundamentally opposed to the Catholic Church and best known for its cultivation of vernacular liturgical music: the Lutheran church. This book investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.Through careful source analysis, this study presents examples of polyphonic masses composed in both Lutheran and Catholic contexts that contradict the conventional conception of the Mass Ordinary as a fixed five-movement cycle with unaltered Latin texts. The book draws on sixteenth-century liturgical documents such as Lutheran church orders and hundreds of primary printed and manuscript sources of polyphonic masses; some of these items are well-known in Renaissance musicology source studies while others have received little to no scholarly attention. The book's findings invite reconsideration of how the Mass Ordinary genre is defined, allow for a discussion whether the polyphonic mass should be considered a bi-confessional genre, and present a cohesive examination of early modern liturgical music in the Germanic and western Slavic regions. It offers interesting reading to scholars and students of European Renaissance and religious music, as well as Reformation studies more generally.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is the first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the experiences of wives and daughters, female missionaries, educators and medical staff associated with the London Missionary Society, the China Inland Mission and the various Scottish Presbyterian Mission Societies, it compares and contrasts gender relations within different British Protestant missions in cross-cultural settings. Drawing on extensive published and archival materials, this study examines how gender, race, class, nationality and theology shaped the polity of Protestant missions and Christian interaction with native peoples. Rather than providing a romantic portrayal of fulfilled professional freedom, this work argues that women's labor in Christian missions, as in the secular British Empire and domestic society, remained under-valued both in terms of remuneration and administrative advancement, until well into the twentieth century. Rich in details and full of insights, this work not only presents the first comparative treatment of gender relations in British Christian missionary movements, but also contributes to an understanding of the importance of gender more broadly in the high imperial age. RHONDA A. SEMPLE is Assistant Professor ofHistory at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.Trade ReviewThis carefully researched study makes a unique and valuable context to mission studies. * MISSIOLOGY *A mine of information about many other issues besides those of the changing roles of women missionaries. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *Informative for anyone interested in the Victorian age and in women's studies. * ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ENGLISH STUDIES *A worthwhile and original contribution. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *An extensively researched and carefully argued book [that] helps to expand the boundaries of British social history even as it raises some fundamental questions. * VICTORIAN STUDIES *Copious archival research makes this a valuable addition to scholarship on late-Victorian and Edwardian missionary enterprises. * EHR *

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Book Synopsis'Bellicose Dove' is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson for 150 years. It examines his life (1647-98), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots until his death on the scaffold in 1698. Unique features of the book include a detailed examination of biographical details in his letters, analysis of the symbolism in his sermons and books (especially his anti-Catholic rhetoric), the importance of his three missionary journeys into France, and the effectiveness of his international diplomatic efforts in England, Holland, and Prussia.Trade Review"...well worth the attention of serious scholars of seventeenth-century France." -- Seventeenth-Century News.

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Book SynopsisScholars from France and from countries of the Huguenot Refuge examine the situation of French Protestants before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in France and in the countries to which many of them fled during the great exodus which followed the Edict of Fontainebleau. Covering a period from the end of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the volume examines aspects of life in France, from the debate on church unity to funeral customs, but its primary focus is on departure from France and its consequences -- both before and after the Revocation. It offers insights into individuals and groups, from grandees such as Henri de Ruvigny, depute general and later Earl of Galway, to converted Catholic priests and from businessmen and communities choosing their destination for economic as well as religious reasons, to women and children moving across European frontiers or groups seeking refuge in the islands of the Indian Ocean. The information-gathering activities of the French authorities and the reception of problematic groups such as the Camisard prophets among exile communities are examined, as well as the significant contributions which Huguenots began to make, in a variety of domains, to the countries in which they had settled. The refugees were extremely interested in the history of their diaspora and of the individuals of which it was composed, and this theme too is explored. Finally, the Napoleonic period brought some of the refugees up against France in a more immediate way, raising further questions of identity and aspiration for the Huguenot community in Germany.Trade Review"The Huguenots...demonstrates that the study of this particular diaspora can offer a meaningful and richly rewarding perspective on early modern European society." - Laura M. Stewart, Birkbeck, University of London, French History, Vol. 28, no 1, March 2014

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Book SynopsisThe Protestant Reformation has been the subject of much recent debate among theologians and church historians. Controversy still rages over the state of the late medieval church, the extent to which the Reformation was driven by theological or political concerns, and the impact which it had on the lives and beliefs of ordinary people. This Student Introduction provides an overview of some of the main themes of religious thinking in this period while giving weight to the multifaceted nature of belief. Particular attention is paid to developments in the practice of worship, and to the impact of the Reformation on ideas of the relationship between the church and secular society. Recent research on the social anthropology of the Reformation is discussed in the context of the extent to which the beliefs and practices of ordinary people were affected by the changing perspectives of theologians and rulers. The present text is written with the modern undergraduate in mind, and is the direct result of teaching experience. This is a market which is not always addressed by existing books, many of which assume a background in Christian thought which few undergraduates now possess. While not for the complete novice, this book assumes very little previous knowledge. Important concepts are explained in simple terms at the outset and glossaries and biographical guides are provided for further reference. Topics include: sin and salvation; sacrament and ritual; authority and interpretation; the theory and organization of the True Church in the Protestant tradition; the Protestant churches and secular authority; literacy, education and the popular response to the Reformation; liturgy and the articulation of belief; popular belief and folk culture.Trade Review"Admirable help for readers is provided in excellent glossaries of the reformers and theological terms, and in a well-chosen list of recommendations for further reading. The author makes the topics understandable and interesting. Recommended." -- Choice. "One of the biggest advantages of this work for the beginning student is its stylistic simplicity. The author is deeply aware that unfamiliar technical language can be an enormous obstacle for beginning students of theology and church history...the other major advantage for this work has to do with its contents and organization. From beginning to end, there is a consistent pattern of presentation...Finally, while this work is ideally suited for beginning college and seminary students, there is much in it to commend it to the more advanced student as well as to the professional theologian and church historian...In these and other respects, this work is at once a highly accessible and subtly provocative summary of the beliefs and practices constitutive of the Protestant Reformation." -- Teaching Theology and Religion.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Sin and Salvation; The medieval doctrine of salvation; Martin Luther's theological breakthrough; Zwingli and the early Swiss reformers; Imparted and imputed righteousness; Predestination; Sin and salvation in the thinking of the radical reformers; Popular ideas on sin and salvation; Sacrament and Ritual; The sacramental tradition; The Reformation of the Sacraments; Baptism; The Eucharist; "By this book": Authority and Interpretation; Biblical Authority and the Church; Humanism and the Bible; "Sola Scriptura"; The authority of the Spirit; The vernacular Bible; The True Church in the Protestant Tradition: Theory and Organisation; The Reformation doctrines of the True Church: theory and practice; The Lutheran state church; The True Church in the Calvinist tradition; The Gathered Church in the doctrine of the Radical reformers; The clergy: priests or ministers?; Church and State: the Protestant Churches and Secular Authority; Church and State in the Lutheran tradition; Church and State in the Swiss Calvinist tradition; Church and State in Calvinist Germany; The radical reformers: the separation of church and state; The One Catholic Church and the nation-church; The Revolution of the Saints?; Social discipline and the reformation of manners; The common weal: poverty and social welfare; Literacy, Education and the Popular Response to the Reformation; Print and Protestantism; Oral culture and the spread of the Reformation; Faith and reason; Literacy and education; Visual culture, visual literacy and iconoclasm; Liturgy and the Articulation of Belief; The Reform of the Liturgy; The Eucharist; Baptism; Confirmation; Repentance and reconciliation; The Solemnisation of Matrimony; Death and burial; Singing the ritual: music and liturgy in the Protestant tradition; Shaping ritual: architecture and the visual appearance of worship; Ritual and Society: The Reshaping of Popular Religious Practice; Baptism; Ritual purification: childbirth and the churching of women; Repentance, confession and the Eucharist; Marriage and the ritual control of sexuality; Death, burial and the ritual community; The ritual of everyday life; Popular Belief and Folk Culture; Popular religion and the cults of the saints; The Pursuit of the Millennium; Witchcraft and witch persecution; Anti-semitism; Conclusion.

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Book Synopsis'Bellicose Dove' is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson for 150 years. It examines his life (1647-98), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots until his death on the scaffold in 1698. Unique features of the book include a detailed examination of biographical details in his letters, analysis of the symbolism in his sermons and books (especially his anti-Catholic rhetoric), the importance of his three missionary journeys into France, and the effectiveness of his international diplomatic efforts in England, Holland, and Prussia.Trade Review"Utt and Strayer retain the merit of having distanced themselves from a Protestant hagiography that treated Brousson as but a holy martyr above reproach, as one who died heroically for his reformed beliefs. They convincingly reveal a human Brousson more complex than a faultless saint. This book is well worth the attention of serious scholars of seventeenth-century France." -- Seventeenth-Century News."...we are indebted to Walter Utt and ultimately to Professor Strayer for skilfully illuminating another misunderstood and unfamiliar aspect of Louis the XIV's later reign." -- Mark Bryant, French History, Vol 21, no 4, December 2007.Table of ContentsContents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Dove is Born (1647-1683); The Dove Turns Bellicose (1683-1684); The Dove Flies Abroad (1683-1688); The Dove Returns to France (1689-1693); The Lion and the Dove; The Hawk and the Dove; The International Dove (1693-1696); The Mystical Dove; The Sacrificial Dove (1697-1698); Epilogue: Reconsidering the Revocation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book Synopsis1 Introduction: Towards a Pentecostal Public Theology in Europe.- PART I: Historical Studies on European Pentecostal Public Engagement.- 2 Pentecostal Public Theology in Sweden: From Prophetic Rejection to Political Reform and the Embrace of Catholic Social Teaching.- 3 Pentecostal Public Theology in the United Kingdom.- 4 From Marginalisation to Limited Public Engagement: An Account of German Pentecostalism.- 5 Public Practical Theology in a Secularized Country: The Situation of Dutch Pentecostalism.- 6 Pentecostal Public Theology in France: The Formation of a Classical Pentecostal Denomination's Identity in Society.- 7 Pentecostal Public Engagement in the Context of Russian Religious and Cultural History.- 8 Italian Pentecostals in the Public Sphere Carmine Napolitano.- 9 Pentecostal Public Engagement in Spain.- PART II: Constructive Proposals for Pentecostal Public Theology.- 10 Pentecostal Beliefs and Values: Exploring Middle Axioms as Public Theology.- 11 Pentecostal Public Re

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