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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