America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. By Mark A. Noll. Oxford University Press, 602 pp., $35.00. The least-understood period in American religious history has been the era of the ...
Those familiar with Amy Laura Hall’s work will recognize in Conceiving Parenthood her characteristic thoroughness, fairness, careful research and abiding concern for the history and contemporary ...
American Protestantism has not yet learned how to speak to the nation. Individual churchmen, both clergy and lay, sometimes speak a telling word incisively and constructively. But the churches as ...
This article is based on a recent Bradley Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute. Beginning with the abolition of slavery, the bitter battles of American political life have often been fought ...
Sometimes prayers seem like they're being answered. The 2020 "census of American religion" released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) last week included a surprising finding. Over the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Jersey minister welcoming members of the KKK into his church in 1923. Bettmann via Getty ...
Editor’s Note: Diana Butler Bass (@dianabutlerbass) holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of 10 books on American religion and culture, including “Grateful: The ...
One of my Bucket List things to do before I leave Philadelphia is to have lunch with the conservative Swarthmore political scientist James Kurth (who, as it turns out is an elder at the Presbyterian ...
John Turner, writing on the First Things blog, says liberal Protestantism might have won the intra-religious culture war after all. Excerpt: Liberal Protestants may have ultimately lost the battle for ...
It is an age of apocalyptic visions. Since that fateful evening of November 9, 2016, the American imperium has been forced to live with its own, deformed mirror image sitting on the throne, savage ...
American Religious Darwinism: Teaching Islam in American Protestant Seminaries during the Gilded Age
Throughout the 19th century, Islam appeared regularly in the curricula of American Protestant seminaries. Islam was not only the focus of Christian missions but was studied as part of the history of ...
Sometimes prayers seem like they're being answered. The 2020 "census of American religion" released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) last week included a surprising finding. Over the ...
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