Series Editors’ Introduction: The Future of Religion in America, by
Mark Silk and Andrew H. Walsh
Introduction, by James Hudnut-Beumler
1. The State of Contemporary Mainline Protestantism, by Graham
Reside
2. The Beliefs and Practices of Mainline Protestants, by David
Bains
3. Futures for Mainline Protestant Institutions, by Maria
Erling
4. A Divided House, by Daniel Sack
5. The Mainline and the Soul of International Relations, by Andrew
H. Walsh
Conclusion: The Quakerization of Mainline Protestantism, by James
Hudnut-Beumler
Appendix A: American Religious Identification Survey: Research
Design
Appendix B: American Religious Identification Survey: Future of
Religion in America Survey
Appendix C: American Religious Identification Survey: Typology of
Religious Groups
List of Contributors
Index
James Hudnut-Beumler is the Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished
Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University.
His books include Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of
the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945–1965 (1994); Generous
Saints: Congregations Rethinking Ethics and Money (1999); and In
Pursuit of the Almighty’s Dollar: A History of Money and American
Protestantism (2007)
Mark Silk is professor of religion in public life and director of
the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public
Life at Trinity College. He is the author of Spiritual Politics:
Religion and America Since World War II (1988) and Unsecular Media:
Making News of Religion in America (1995), and he is coeditor of
Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public
life in the United States.
Mainline Protestantism never outgrew its ethnic families of origin
and it suffered a breathtaking fall from fifty percent to ten
percent of the population. Yet it remains a constructive and
influential force in American life. This splendid book lucidly,
cogently, and judiciously captures both sides of this story and
picture, making a valuable contribution.
*Gary Dorrien, Columbia University*
For at least two decades, scholars have been addressing the
presumed decline of mainline Protestantism in the United States.
But mainline Protestantism refuses to disappear. Thus, what The
Future of Mainline Protestantism in America proffers, namely a look
at the future of mainline Protestantism, is timely indeed.
*Charles Lippy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga*
A timely collection, The Future of Mainline Protestantism in
America synthesizes a great deal of recent scholarship in a way
that will speak to a wide audience of students and scholars alike.
It will make a positive contribution to the wider field of American
religion, in particular, to the fields of sociology of religion,
history of American Christianity, and religion in American
culture.
*Christopher Evans, Boston University*
With precision, clarity, and balance, these authors explore many
facets of the well-known but less well understood mainline
tradition. The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America offers
facts, a guide to pertinent literature, a survey of history, and
predictions about coming challenges and opportunities—all highly
relevant to conversations about religion in American culture.
*Elesha J. Coffman, author of The Christian Century and the Rise
of the Protestant Mainline*
A welcome contribution to American religious scholarship.
*Reading Religion*
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