Practicing Protestants

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.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Puritan and Evangelical Practice in New England, 1630–1800Chapter 1. Writing as a Protestant Practice: Devotional Diaries in Early New EnglandChapter 2. Forgiveness: From the Puritans to Jonathan EdwardsPart II: Mission, Nation, and Christian Practice, 1820–1940Chapter 3. Assembling Bodies and Souls: Missionary Practices on the Pacific FrontierChapter 4. Honoring Elders: Practices of Sagacity and Deference in Ojibwe ChristianityChapter 5. Nurturing Religious Nationalism: Korean Americans in HawaiiChapter 6. Re-Forming the Church: Preservation, Renewal, and Restoration in American Christian Architecture in CaliforniaPart III: Devotional Practices and Modern Predicaments, 1880–1920Chapter 7. "Acting Faith": Practices of Religious Healing in Late-Nineteenth-Century ProtestantismChapter 8. Observing the Lives of the Saints: Sanctification as Practice in the Church of God in ChristChapter 9. The Practice of Prayer in a Modern Age: Liberals, Fundamentalists, and Prayer in the Early Twentieth CenturyPart IV: Liberal Protestants and Universalizing Practices, 1850–1965Chapter 10. Cosmopolitan Piety: Sympathy, Comparative Religions, and Nineteenth-Century LiberalismChapter 11. The Practice of Dance for the Future of Christianity: "Eurythmic Worship" in New York's Roaring TwentiesChapter 12. Taste Cultures: The Visual Practice of Liberal Protestantism, 1940–1965NotesList of Contributors Index

Each of the essays in Practicing Protestants offers rewarding insights into some facet of American religion. -- David Fillingim Studies in American Culture 2007 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 2008 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 2007 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 2008 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 2008