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
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
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.
Each of the essays in Practicing Protestants offers rewarding insights into some facet of American religion. -- David Fillingim Studies in American Culture Thoughtful, thought provoking, well researched, well written, and engaging... A wonderful showcase of the scholarship of American church historians. -- Kenneth B. Bedell Journal of Contemporary Religion A unique perspective into a burgeoning field... Will undoubtedly provide a scholarly benchmark from which other historical and theoretical studies in practice theory can be examined. -- Emily Wright H-Net Reviews Practicing Protestants is both comprehensive in its introduction to the study of religious practice and specialized in its consideration of many and varied subjects pertaining to religion in America. It is a book long overdue, and thus a starting point for more collaborative efforts to understand the complicated lives of American Christians. -- Michael Pasquier Historian A very readable and theoretically astute collection of essays that brings to light valuable conclusions drawn from original research. Readers will really appreciate the value of this volume for teaching and research. -- Sylvester Johnson Church History
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