Protestantism in America

Randall Balmer is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Religion in Twentieth Century America and Grant Us Courage. He has written and presented three PBS television documentaries, including Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut.Lauren F. Winner is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University and a contributor to Christianity Today, The New York Times, and The Christian Century, among other publications.

• Preface: Easter Sunday 1. Protestantism in America 2. Brief History of Protestantism in America 3. Varieties of Protestantism in America 4. Williston Federated Church 5. Abyssinian Baptist Church 6. New Life Family Fellowship 7. Protestants and Feminism 8. Protestants and Homosexuality 9. Protestants and Social Justice

A useful starting point for reflection on the future of Protestantism. -- Steven Schroeder Booklist Balmer and Winner do an admirable job of synthesizing recent scholarship and have created an engaging, if occasionally irreverent, account...useful. Library Journal [A]n innovative and insightful book... The volume [Balmer & Winner] have produced is succinct and sprightly, and full of insights. It is a welcome guide to American Protestantism at the beginning of the twenty-first century. -- Robert Bruce Mullin Journal of Religion Balmer and Winner boldly take hold of the large and complex topic of Protestantism in America by its most ungainly part, evangelicalism. -- Christian Sheppard Chicago Tribune Balmer and Winner have produced a book that is quite readable. Choice A testimony to the historic centrality and energy of Protestantism in the broader American religious culture and a worthy and enlightening new study. Journal of Church & State Vivid and engaging -- Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. Anglican Theological Review A highly useful text -- Amanda Porterfield H-Net Reviews